Post #3633976
2026-07-06 18:03 UTC
On December 22, 1967, Spock asked the Enterprise computer to calculate pi to the last digit in order to paralyze it (episode 2x07, "Wolf in the Fold"). Is this the first example of prompt engineering in modern fiction?
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@tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk 2026-07-06 18:07
@gvwilson@mastodon.social I'm sure there were a few examples in Asimov's books of telling a robot to do something impossible which killed it.. those would be mid 50s. Star Trek was rather fond if it. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Induced_self-destruction
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@apostolis@social.coop 2026-07-07 14:07
@gvwilson@mastodon.social I am sure all computer programs in star trek are lazy evaluated. 😀
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@mikro2nd@indieweb.social 2026-07-07 15:45
@gvwilson@mastodon.social I keep thinking about Gödel's Theorem in relation to Large Lying Machines....