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this has major john henry vibes


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

I initially searched for a Major John Henry. :-)

There's also a cartoon (Chuck Jones?) about an axeman defeated by a Gyro Gearloose-type character (with a chainsaw) in tree felling.


Oh yeah, I remember hearing about that one before. The one coming to mind for me was actually named after him, the AI built to oppose Skynet: https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/John_Henry


A real John Henry competition wouldn’t have the human find out the vulnerability from another AI and exploit it. He would have picked up his own Go pieces and a little piece of board and played until it was the death of him. Lord, Lord.


My first thought.




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