Vad är kanin och vad betyder "morot gröna" tips?

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Jag läste just Vernor Vinge s Rainbows End . Jag misstänker starkt att kanin är ett AI, men här i Ch 25 Du kan inte fråga Alice Anymore , det finns en rad:

It was amusing that despite the carrot greens and all the other generous clues Rabbit had provided, Alfred & Co had not realized whence his powers came, or how great they were.

Så vad betyder det, morotgröna ? Är det en symbol för AI?

    
uppsättning athos 15.08.2017 00:45

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Det kan vara så att morotgröna är symboliska för kaninens förmåga att transcendera (jag försiktigt använder den termen) Secure Hardware Environment (SHE). När kanin dyker upp i Alfred Vazs inre kontor, har Vaz ursprungligen den här rädslan, bara för att få det att försöka hitta den "riktiga" skyldige i form av buggysoftware och dåliga registerinställningar. Morotgröna är uppenbarligen kvar som en irritation, men kan vara en förskuggning av Vazs senare insikt om att SHE inte längre är säker, och att kanin verkligen är nästa mycket dålig sak.

    
svaret ges 21.08.2018 06:38
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Shmoop nämner följande:

Also: after Rabbit disappears, the leafy green top of the carrot he left stays around for three days. Which is a not-so-subtle message to Alfred that Rabbit might be more powerful than Alfred expected.

Det verkar som det kan vara "ledtråden" av hans storhet.

Relevant utdrag från kapitel 9:

Surely Armageddon would not be announced by a silly rabbit? There followed almost eighty hours of uncertainty as Alfred's inner teams pounded away at the mystery. Finally, his EIA analysts discovered the true explanation, something at once comforting and deeply embarrassing to them: Rabbit had — admittedly with extraordinary cleverness — exploited a combination of buggy software and foolish registry settings, the kind of flaws that bedevil careless consumers. The bottom line: Rabbit was far more dangerous than Alfred had originally thought, but he was not the Next Very Bad Thing.

Vaz suffered through every moment of the suspense. But in the end, the most infuriating aspect of the incident was the piece of carrot that Rabbit left on his desk. With all the resources and expertise of the modern Indian state, it took EIA signals intelligence almost three days to obliterate the logic that injected that image into his office network.

Vad det än betyder, realiserar Vaz det i kapitel 32.

He had heard enough to know that Rabbit's accusations were in the pdf sent to Parker's laptop. Alfred would never complete his research program. Indeed, Rabbit had been the Next Very Bad Thing. The carrot greens in Mumbai had made the point, but I willfully ignored the evidence, so hoping I was to win with my plan.

    
svaret ges 15.08.2017 00:49