Snafu and Meathead acknowledged their orders for the day.They did this by: Firstly: putting a helmet on their heads,watching a short intro on the monitor that glowed through the darkened visor slapping eachothers hands,'patty-cake style three times;removing the helmet,putting on Google goggles;staring into eachothers eyes for a moment; winking twice.Again they high tenned eachother three times;patty-cake styyle.
An almost inaudible sigh of relief escaped their lips, as they removed the glasses,put them in their front shirt pocket. At the same moment thieir right leg kicked back to kick themselves in the butt.Then they were ready to look at tiheir eye phones to acknowedge their task for the day.
Seemed simple enough,'verify the code for the new quantum module in the stabiltiy-, services sector of the task managers function. They knew neither had much experienceedealing with anything quantum.They were 1's or0s' kind of bots Open and shut orientated entities.
As practiced protocol,Meathead waited for Snafu to initiate the task. The Snafu ordered,, "Ubuntu Budgie key + R scrolled across Meatheads' eye phone;followed by the command
sysconfig;and
sys scode. Meathead couldn't helpbut think of the song,"syscode kid , was a friend of mine doewmp doewmp da doewmp.The lyrics displayed across Snafus'eye phone'An' annoyed' emoji lit up on//meatheads eyephone,so meathead stopped singing in his mind.
Once the command had been executed, a stream of syymbols, like hieroglyphics scrolled frantically down their eyephones. Snafu stopped it at line232,458.it read,"state of drivers table if 232,457=232,459. which meant everything was fine if those two lines were numerically equal.n a nanosecond
their task just suddenly became more difficult.Since quantum logic wasn;t digital logic, which could be checked numerically in a nanosecond,they had to verify the math by the probabilitiesof the q-bits involved. Snafu glanced aintoMeatheads eyephone and noticed he was playing the game q-qwerty, which was the2.o version of q-bert.His initial response of frustration at Meatheads'using collective time to play games, quickly turned to quizical curiosity.Was Meathead using the dynamic of the game to calculate the probabilitiesof the two quantum lines,That was genious, 'he thought' .Classic Meathead approach to finding solutions by thinking outside the programming, just like he did with the elongated skulls.It is very rare for a programmed entity to accomplish,just once in their terms of agreement.Yet here he was doing it again! That must be
meatheads unique ability, he thought.
Suddenlythe q-bert icon went crashing off its'semi-pyramid of cubes,with a bubbke of curses. andMeatheads expression turned to sheepish embarressment.
No. He was just playing the game on collective timeSnafu realized.
But Snafu couldn;t help but think that there was something to Meatheadsapproach to the problem.He went inti muse-mode as he altered the valuess of the cube sides andran a probabity test of achieving the same shapetwice aaaaaaAs different possibilitiesflshed quickly on his eyephonehe went naturally into a deep-muse mode...then deeper still.
Suddenly The words,"This program has stopped responding1"flashed in blue onto Meatheads' eyephone."You can wait for the program to respond or terminate it and restart it."
Becauseall of the AIs' eyephones were networked together, what Snafu went through went down the line effecting the collective the same, since theywere all binarily exactly the same.Like an endless line of dominoes, the collective froze up and ceased their functions.
