Linear A.
Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.
Get nondeterministic!
So this got me to thinking . . . what if machines do have a subconscious of their own? What if machines right now are like human babies, which have brains but no way of expressing themselves except screaming (crashing)? What would a machine's subconscious look like? How does it feed off what we give it? If machines could talk to us, what would they say?
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A torture session in Iran took a strange turn when an elite policeman told his captive, a Newsweek reporter, that he believed New Jersey must be heaven on earth. […] The guard seemed to believe sex and alcohol can be enjoyed easily in New Jersey. “I think the words ‘New Jersey’ sounded to him like the most American place that you can be in your life,” said Bahari, who was held captive for 118 days in an Iranian prison. “He hated me and he was jealous of me at the same time because I had been to New Jersey.