A Random Thought When Dealing With Aritificial Intelligence...

[spoilers for a movie older than most of the users on Internet— “2001: A Space Odyssey”]

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What if HAL thinks he’s still “dreaming,” and kills the astronauts because he thinks he’s dealing in dream logic, and never would have made those same choices while “awake”?