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Terminator
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A Lie (Artificial Intransigence) by Stewart Stafford
The morrow lies beyond
The grasp of our hands,
Fogged coastal shadows
Of mountains in distant lands.
Deities of tech Olympus,
Subhuman to simulated will?
Sage genius cannot tell,
But hubris claims to still.
The synthetic brainchild,
Squats on shoulders high
Of eyeless seers' vision,
Our sentient clone - AI.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.
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The ultimate irony in this vast struggle (available to audience members who want to think about it but easily ignored by those who accept the semi-happy ending ) is the irony in many time loop (or ontological paradox) stories: John Connor has created himself (though he has not gone as far as the character in Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies” who is both his own father and mother). Far worse, by saving his mother’s life and ensuring the destruction of the Terminator, John Connor has created Sky
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