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Mar 15, 2018 at 8:54 comment added forest @mg30rg I feel bad for all the users of C64 and ZX systems! All that clever self-modifying code, killed...
Feb 9, 2018 at 19:39 comment added DCOPTimDowd How do we know that Data wasn't given both a save yourself script and a save crew members script? The second could easily override the first in emergency situations.
Mar 13, 2015 at 14:16 comment added mg30rg @Morgan - This morning I wrote a script-controlled TCP server application capable of altering the controlling scripts according to changes in coditions. Did I create something with free will? (I hope not. I've deleted about a dozen versions since then. :D )
May 21, 2014 at 19:31 comment added Morgan @Izkata -I remember seeing that episode. That was a very clever and interesting plot twist.
May 21, 2014 at 11:19 comment added Izkata @Morgan Chakotay's "programming" was altered as well
May 21, 2014 at 10:30 comment added Oak @Morgam , although he can still be programmed to assume he's "perfect" and refuse any other programming attempts
May 21, 2014 at 2:38 comment added JohnP @Morgan - Good point, I hadn't considered that aspect.
May 21, 2014 at 2:00 comment added Morgan Data can also alter his own programming as he wished or have another do it for him. As he told Roga Danar of Angosia; "My programming can be altered, yours can not?"
May 21, 2014 at 1:44 vote accept Often Right
May 20, 2014 at 23:46 history answered JohnP CC BY-SA 3.0