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Besides, even if the Terminator in T1 had information for baby Skynet, its chip got damaged when it got squished. And Uncle Bob and T-1000 both got destroyed.
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This is weird. I just checked one of the Allston ones out of the library. You'll like it if you liked Wraith squadron. Similar style.
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MKSheppard wrote:If I sent a guy in 1840 the complete technical specifications for a nuclear reactor + bomb, he still wouldn't be able to build them. It would take until the 1910s before a nuclear fission pile became feasible, and technology was at least somewhat capable of producing a nuclear bomb that is about the size of a boxcar (or larger).
True, but there are a few important differences between my scenario and yours. Firstly the time difference is rather shorter; around 40 years rather than 100. Secondly Skynet presumably has a complete record of all of its experimental results, theories, tooling, processes and a complete design history from the early models to the last things it turned out before defeat. I'm not saying that the immediately post-Armageddon Skynet could start turning out the latest tech, I'm just saying that having a data dump from its future self would save a huge amount of time and resources on R&D (as well as providing crucial field experience and presumably advanced late-war AI software for its drones). In addition Skynet probably has the general AI advantage of being able to assimilate the data almost instantly: the 1840 scientist would take years to learn all the supporting theory and engineering even given a complete set of textbooks and blueprints, but Skynet can just probably just merge the data right into its mind state (depending on how good the AI architecture is - sucky current NNs would have severe problems with this, but any sane AGI design should be able to do it).

Thirdly the value of the operational info (locations of rebel bases and arms caches, identities of ringleaders so they can be priority targeted) stands regardless of the technical info. And a couple of T-1000s could do a lot of damage even without the (immediate) ability to make more.
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