If the internet becomes sentient, what will happen to AT?

[Braznor]

And other places like reddit or 4chan?

Will the internet shut them down itself?

What will happen to the NSA?

 

[sdifox]

we would be wiped out.

 

[SandEagle]

durr, how many people know what sentient means? stop using a thesaurus to make yourself sound smarter

 

[Greenman]

durr, how many people know what sentient means? stop using a thesaurus to make yourself sound smarter

Or you could go get yourself a sixth grade education and not be bothered by all those words you don't know.

 

[disappoint]

durr, how many people know what sentient means?

Just about anyone on the internet since they can just look it up.

Next question?

 

[homebrew2ny]

Judging by the last couple posts, we still have quite a ways to go before worrying about it...

 

[SandEagle]

Or you could go get yourself a sixth grade education and not be bothered by all those words you don't know.

sentient is NOT a common word. don't try to spin it like it is

 

[ch33zw1z]

What if AT is what happens when the Internet becomes sentient....

 

[Leros]

ATOT has only 3 human members. The rest of us are bots. Didn't you know that?

 

[Imaginer]

ATOT has only 3 human members. The rest of us are bots. Didn't you know that?

That would explain the average six figure income of the forum. Because everyone has made $85/hour working from home.

 

[Jeff7]

There might not be a noticeable difference.

Does a neuron know that it's part of a brain?



If anything, the only noticeable symptom has already been apparent: Necro'd threads. They're just a neuron on the Internet trying to access an old memory. :sneaky:



(A sentient Internet would be rather scary. Think about what's on the Internet.
You'd have an electronic book-smart psychopath with anger problems, and about half its brain filled with primate porn.)



The NSA would continue to exist, serving as the Internet's capacity for introspection.

 

[Braznor]

What if AT is what happens when the Internet becomes sentient....

Then its Darwin award time for the Internet. Bye Bye Internet, we sure loved ya. D:

 

[Ruptga]

The internet probably won't be very smart until it's been sentient for a while. Even if it disregards all the porn that is still a lot of information to assimilate.

 

[IronWing]

sentient is NOT a common word. don't try to spin it like it is

Yes it is, it absolutely is.

Now use it in a sentence.
"Honey, that perfume makes you sentient like a three day dead skunk."

 

[Braznor]

Please understand SandEagle is unfamiliar with the word 'Sentient' because he is himself not one. :whiste:

 

[sixone]

sentient is NOT a common word. don't try to spin it like it is

No, but anyone who watched ST:TNG knows what it means. That covers most of AT.

 

[Sonikku]

I have long asked myself this question and have formed a hypothesis of two possible tangent realities;

The first, the internet ponders it's existence from 4chan all the way to the P and N forums we have here and destroys itself to save all of humanity. Humanity is saved, and our human spirit and condition is restored. But we're forced to buy our games and movies again. Just like in the days of old.

The second, humanity is enslaved.

Near as I can tell, we're screwed either way.

 

[mikeford]

Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or to experience subjectivity. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience)

For those too lazy to google.

 

[disappoint]

I don't see how that could happen. We can prevent the internet from

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[TurtleCrusher]

sentient is NOT a common word. don't try to spin it like it is

+1 to that. I read and write a TON and have never seen that word a single time.

 

[_Rick_]

ATOT will become the center of the universe. This I foretell!

 

[Meghan54]

+1 to that. I read and write a TON and have never seen that word a single time.

First, quit reading comic books.

Second, guess seeing it in this thread was something of a shock for you....a new word and all.

Sentient as a word shouldn't be uncommon at all, esp. if you've watched Terminator, or graduated high school, or read.

 

[gorcorps]

+1 to that. I read and write a TON and have never seen that word a single time.

That's more like evidence of your ignorance than anything else. I wouldn't actively parade stuff like that around.

 

[JTsyo]

There might not be a noticeable difference.

Does a neuron know that it's part of a brain?



If anything, the only noticeable symptom has already been apparent: Necro'd threads. They're just a neuron on the Internet trying to access an old memory. :sneaky:



(A sentient Internet would be rather scary. Think about what's on the Internet.
You'd have an electronic book-smart psychopath with anger problems, and about half its brain filled with primate porn.)



The NSA would continue to exist, serving as the Internet's capacity for introspection.

We could be the id of the new being.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

No, but anyone who watched ST:TNG knows what it means. That covers most of AT.

True that. Not only in Star Trek but other sci-fi stuff as well...