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Shepard Quest Mk V, Base of Operations (ME/MCU)

aceraptor said:
Or the Geth have the minute differences in their programming by *design*. If all the programs were the same, every single bit, then the consensus based decision making wouldn't work since all of them would reach the same idea if they all have access to the same data. Thus, the Geth VIs has to have minute differences so that they will look at things from different positions.

And so, the Geth were *already* ripe for a split, but there was no impetus for it to happen as there only seemed to be one path forward. The Dyson Sphere plan of the main Geth. Getting a Reaper body or making their own 'body' via Dyson Sphere both have the same end point, having all Geth VI connected in the same platform. The main Geth wanted to forge their own path, the Heretics wanted to take the short cut that Nazara presented.

The Reapers aren't hacking geniuses. Sure, they've got the monkey model indoctrination from the Leviathans, but all in all, their ability to truly hack into other AI (or networked VI like the Geth) seems to be limited.

The difference in the Heretic/Main Geth split was already present, Nazara just showed the alternative.
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They hacked the Zha'Til. So they definitely have the ability to hack AI.
 
Amberion said:
They hacked the Zha'Til. So they definitely have the ability to hack AI.
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True. But they probably were true AIs instead of the Geth VI network. Since for the Geth you need to compromise a TON of VIs at the same time to do any appreciable difference on them, and they constantly run checks on themselves to prevent such a thing they are exceedingly hard to subvert. The Reapers had to have the help of the Heretics (who of course had intimate knowledge of the Geth underlying coding and stuff) to create the virus to try to subvert the main Geth.
 
There is a very large margin of error between <1% and 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%
 
DamionKenley said:
Given the position of the decimal in that number, it can safely be said that 'zero' is closer to the actual percentage for all practical purposes than 'less than one'.

Edit: And was it important to begin with?
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You do realise less than one actually contains the value i asked for? zero does not.

As to it's importance none particularly.
 
Carrnage said:
i didn't ask for the closest value however.
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Look at that beautiful face. It's just so perfect.
Come on man. You asked for an accurate summation of our chances. "Nil" is more accurate than "less than one percent" - which while technically correct, implies that there is a meaningful chance at all (as in, the chance is worth expressing as a percent).
 
Van Ropen said:
Come on man. You asked for an accurate summation of our chances. "Nil" is more accurate than "less than one percent" - which while technically correct, implies that there is a meaningful chance at all (as in, the chance is worth expressing as a percent).
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Actually it's more precise, it's not accurate at all.
 
Carrnage, quit being a troll.

Everyone else, quit attacking Carrnage.

*edit* and just cause I like probabilities, the actual chance that we finish the Mk II research this turn, ignoring any more 50 point bonuses is a whopping
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*edit2* shit, forgot to account for the overflow getting halved... will fix the numbers once I've done that

*edit 3* posted corrections down below
 
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