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I don’t know if we’re doing spoilers for 40+ year old movies, but

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Isn’t this really its conclusion after being told to play tic tac toe against itself? Then it learned from that and applied it to its global thermonuclear war simulations.

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ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven’t actually seen it.

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- bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.
  
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  - leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Story goes that Reagan got freaked out after watching the film and asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff if it’d be that easy to hack into the US military. After a week of looking into it came the answer: “no, the problem is much worse than that”, and fifteen months after having watched it signed the confidential directive “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security”, starting the implementation of cybersecurity measures in the country’s institutions.
    
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    GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The war room was actually much more high tech than their war room at the time. They realized they needed to invest in computers. Fast.
    
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  - ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s on my list! Just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
    
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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I think you should rewatch it sometime. it plays all the games in it’s catalogue, it’s not just applying tic-tac-toe to chess. skilled players of tic-tac-toe can force a stalemate, the only stalemate in nuclear war is mutually assured destruction.

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- bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.
  
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  - mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    sorry meant tic-tac-toe to global thermonuclear warfare
    
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