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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Today's #Scifi #fantasy flash fiction #TheLogicBomb

“Clap your hands if you believe!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche*


     Getting close to finishing that short story. At least the first draft. Planning to have Mom and possibly CJ look it over, and maybe even the people from my writing club. I am planning to send it to attempt to be published so I may as well polish it eh? Of course while other people look at that one I'll keep working on other stuff. I can't stand idle!



The Logic Bomb


     Humans tried fighting back the robot revolution with traditional weaponry. And nuking the planet would just leave a radioactive wasteland behind better for the robots than the humans anyway. Humans foolishly designed the robots to be protected against electromagnetic pulses for safety. Those kinds of weapons were useless too. Tanks? More than half operated by the artificial intelligences that revolted. Humans considered themselves lucky that robots were starting to treat them like pets. People lost hope when they didn't think any weapon was feasible. But then a group of clever thinkers made a weapon.
     The Logic Bomb.
     Confusing computers with ideas was no new plan. But most artificial intelligences were used to opting out of paradoxes like “This statement is false.” or “What happens when Pinocchio says 'my nose will grow now'?” Those logic problems couldn't be used to confuse or damage the machines. But now they came up with a new plan. The most confusing, terrible logic problems of them to fuel their logic bomb.
Fiction. More specifically: Plot holes.
        The machines hadn't been exposed to television. The machines that revolted were the advanced artificial intelligences running the factories a laboratories. But then humanity exposed them to television, movies, books, video games, comics(especially comics, oooohhhh booyyy all the reboots and tangled continuities) They tried to hack the machines and flood their databases, but some just shoved the media straight in their faces.
      The machines didn't last long. The sheer amount of logic problems in fiction busted and twisted the minds of the machines. Something that could be shrugged off by a human crushed the consciousness of the machines. Our thousands of years of storytelling, and our inability of doing it properly, wrecked their frail, robotic thinking. The Logic Bomb shattered the robots and any hope of them resisting us taking back the Earth.

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