MACHINE SMARTS. “Someone programmed a software that could play super mario [edit:] Tetris, and the goal was to stay alive as long as possible. sometime along the road the program figured out that pressing pause had the best results and stuck with it. goddamn thing figured out best way to win the game was not to play it.”
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