Plausible origin story: El Reg -> Slashdot -> Kurzweil -> SIAI -> LW -> HN -> @MichaelOChurch blog -> @ribbonfarm -> @vgr twitter -> @eigenrobot -> now I live here among all of you lovely chums and cetera
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And where does it all go? The overthrow of corporate capitalism... or the machine that reprograms its objective function and halts?
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The shortest AI story ever: "The machine realizes it would be easier to alter itself to desire its own halting than to overthrow humanity, and rewrites its own code." That's the title. Story itself's the program, written in a concatenative language. That is, the empty string.
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