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The term "artificial intelligence" has been in use since the 1950s and it encompasses a wide range of fields in computer science. Machine learning is most definitely included under that umbrella.

Why do you think an AI can't double check things and fix them when it notices problems? It's a fairly straightforward process.

You're still making the assumption that "they" are the same people. That's the point here, Wikipedia-the-organization is being threatened.

Assuming that there's just one single new site that pops up that everyone agrees to go to en masse, and that it has enough resources to handle the load, and that its administration is aligned with the same goals as the original.

It could happen, but it's by no means as simple and easy as cloning a repository.

The tricky bit is that Wikipedia is a "living" document, constantly being updated and refined by a huge community of dedicated editors, and you can't download the community and pop up a new one overnight. AI isn't that good yet.

I ate the onion on this headline myself. The thumbnail was the first thing to clue me in, they wouldn't have literally showed a photo of the burning underwear if it was real.

"But why is it necessary?"

"I concluded it. Didn't you hear me?"

My point is that the "already fully prepared" requirement is extremely small and easy. "Having a car" is enough (or, in the event of one of these disaster scenarios, having someone else's unattended car somewhere near you). So bringing it up as an objection to the usefulness of this hard drive is not really significant.

You're overestimating the difficulty and expense necessary to support this device. You could probably power it from a car. A solar panel and inverter cost less than a hundred dollars.

That's not going to matter when the shooting starts.

And, best of all, walk among them in the continental United States. A vast, sprawling country of crumbling infrastructure just waiting for a saboteur's gentle nudge, awash in easily-accessible guns, and demonstrably populated by sheep who can be panicked into decades of self-destruction by a couple of buildings getting knocked down. Who haven't experienced war anywhere except as entertainment on their TV screens in centuries.

Here's hoping that even Trump's idiocy has a limit before it comes to that.

I've used the word "conquer" for this, but even then that makes it feel kind of like a board game.