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He forgot the feed-forward loop that warned him of looming problems and the feedback loop to bring below-spec behaviors back to norms. It seems that male computers are just as bad at those feed-forward and feedback loops as human males.

#3247, posted at 2011-07-14 13:56:51 in Cognitive Surplus

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- - That's beautiful. I'm going to say // Governator (#3241) +14Y
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        /me groans. // Governator (#3249) +14Y
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- ST:TNG, "I, Borg", Episode 523 I // kaiden (#3470) +14Y
- - Well, he's just doing it for Geordi. // Scrotor (#3471) +14Y
  - - Bah. The Borg have the right of it. You // kaiden (#3472) +14Y
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      - Relevant: "Victor Huge once got so mad he // kaiden (#3474) +14Y
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  - - Well, if you point at your crotch instead, I // Scrotor (#3502) +14Y
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