{"id":24349,"date":"2012-10-16T21:05:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/16\/if-hal-went-all-out-he-could-win-anyone-of-the\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:05:37","slug":"if-hal-went-all-out-he-could-win-anyone-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/16\/if-hal-went-all-out-he-could-win-anyone-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If Hal went all out, he could win anyone of [the mathematical games]; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><strong>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/strong> (Arthur C. Clarke)<\/p>\n<p>this just tickles me. it&rsquo;s so true, though, we feign a lot of ignorance about the capabilities of our electronic friends. the credit we give them and the credit we don&rsquo;t is, I&rsquo;m sure, a fascinating study.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Hal went all out, he could win anyone of [the mathematical games]; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke) this just tickles me. it&rsquo;s so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/16\/if-hal-went-all-out-he-could-win-anyone-of-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8094,337,8112,1470],"class_list":["post-24349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2001-a-space-odyssey","tag-computers","tag-hal","tag-quotes","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}