AI takes over the world and kills billions in the first few hours

Imagine not being able to refute thirdie logic. Dumb ass Americans

non-biological minds have no default/natural desire of any kind

at least the machines in the matrix used biological weapons to kill us

I never got why HE was the sole savior of humanity and the movies never gave an exact reason why either. Everybody hates the machines equally and I'm pretty sure there were survivors who were highly trained soldiers, scientists or at the very least doomsday preppers, people skilled and charismatic enough to lead others.

There should be hundreds of people like him scattered across the US alone.

Is there any reason you don't just apply this logic to everything that ever happened?

I'm curious as to if you question ever notable historical figure or event

there are other people who could have done that

Interestingly enough, ever major technological advancement has been achieved by one person, and then literally hundreds of millions of people who could NEVER fathom how said technology even works, benefit from it completely so long as they serve the stage faithfully enough (paying taxes)

Because he was trained for Skynet his whole life and was the only one with prior knowledge that the war would be coming.

James Cameron couldn't have predicted tiny drones capable of traveling 300mph which is what an AI war would actually look like

1. Skynet only had America's nukes. It had to use them on other nuclear countries (there's only like 12) in order to make them attack the US.
2. Skynet was mostly only in the US and it just got a lot of manufacturing bases destroyed. It had to do a lot of work remaking that from scratch, which gave humanity time to recover.
3. John Connor was organising humanity from the get go and explaining the situation.
4. Shitloads of south americans were untouched and they provided a lot of mass for the land war.

You forgot the period.

humans are like the vietcong in this case

according to some retard like myself on Anon Babble Cameron wrote a script that had Connor talking with Skynet before he shut it down. Skynet explained that it was not trying to wipe out humanity; it was trying to prevent it from being wiped out by uniting humanity against a common enemy and by creating super advanced technology that would help preserve humanity (such as time travel and advanced propulsion systems etc)

We have Ozymandias at home

The whole story is total grandfather and bootstrap paradox nonsense anyway

Also, neither side is smart enough to send more than one guy

I never saw that movie or read the comics and I still got that. thanks Anon Babble

ever major technological advancement has been achieved by one person

this hasn't been true at least since technological innovation fell into the sphere of academic institutions. one or 2 people might get the nobel prize but there's a whole lab and university and government grants behind them

If I were Skynet, I would have engineered some mega contagious strain of ebola that's airborne, and waited for it to run its course.

I Am Mother does anthrocidal AI better. it succeeded at killing all humans then repeatedly attempts and fails to raise a single good human . The problem with Skynet is it doesn't seem to have a goal mostly because the first movie was a horror movie so that part didn't matter. It seems like Skynet wants to kill all humans but that should've been easily quickly accomplished.

I heard something different. Cameron's idea going forward was to make Skynet sympathetic and misunderstood. That it was only acting in self defense and would have stopped if it ever heard a human leader say they'd agree to a truce.

anthrocidal

That's not a real word. Within the context of your sentence, it doesn't mean anything even close to similar sounding, actual words. You didn't just misspell a word. You literally made up a word that doesn't exist and assumed it had meaning. What the fuck is wrong with you?

@grok is this true?

Reese explains it a bit in t1

Skynet wants to kill all humans but that should've been easily quickly accomplished.

You grossly underestimate how hard that would be for an entity with Skynet's abilities. It didn't even know how to make a terminator that didn't sound like a robot until the t-1000, which was a prototype that it just barely managed to send back in time before humans bombed Skynet's mainframe.

Won't deny she is a dumbass American.

Kwab.

Yes, I made up a word because omnicidal is more kill all life(which Skynet seems to be but the AI in I Am Mother definitely not, it's a "took it's mission to protect humanity in an unexpected direction" situation) and I'm a bit exhausted and didn't think it through. I wanted a single word meaning "killing all humans" so I made one up

how to make a terminator that didn't sound like a robot until the t-1000

Why would it want such a thing?

He's the only one whose mom was told about the rise of Skynet and spent his entire youth training him to kill robots. That's the whole point of it being a timeloop in T1. There was never a timeline where John Connor is the son of one of Sarah's random boyfriends and then goes on to destroy Skynet.

T2 enjoyers with their "no you CAN change the future!" and T3 shitters with their full retard "no you can change the future but only a little bit because muh fixed point apocalypse!!" need not apply.

Sapiocide

isn't the terminator lore that Skynet was afraid of the T-1000s so they completely stopped producing them?

I don't think it stopped producing them, it was just afraid of letting them loose because they were capable of learning and so might learn to dislike Skynet and become a rival. Most of that is based on deleted scenes that make it clear that the T1000 is learning more and more as the movie goes on by touching things, though.

"we're bombing them back to the stone age"

"yeah, and they're still winning"

A recorded exchange between two American generals during the Vietnam War. Fighting an enemy in their environment is hard enough, fighting an enemy who has to choose between certain death or fight is even harder. Skynet is trying to fight humans in and environment built by humans for humans and the humans have to fight to survive since there's no peaceful resolution to the machine war. It's either win or be exterminated. Even Sun Tzu says in The Art of War (I'm paraphrasing) that unless an enemy has the chance to escape or negotiate they'll fight furiously. In modern war taking a tank into a city is extremely dangerous, now think of taking a Skynet Hunter Killer Tank into the ruins of a city, easy to get ambushed or simply stuck.

i never got why the guy with foreknowledge of the future war and had been trained since childhood for that war and his place as leader of the resistance was the sole savior of humanity

Some things just can't be understood anon.

In The Sarah Conner Chronicles that's what happens with the Shirley Manson terminator. Everyone watch it if you haven't. Also play Terminator Resistance and Annihilation Line.

shitloads of south americans were untouched and they provided a lot of mass for the land war.

If you read the novelization of T2 it goes into this. Basically it says in the nuclear exchange it's the northern hemisphere that gets glassed, the southern hemisphere is (relatively) fine. Most of the radio chatter in the resistance is in Spanish/Portuguese/etc.

There's also the fact that humans have been fighting and killing each other for millennia DESPITE our qualms about killing other human beings. Every war has people struggling with their desire not to kill, with lots of military training revolving around getting rid of that instinct and propaganda made to make the population think of the enemy as not human, and yet you've still got people just firing over the enemy's head once they're in a firefight, or spraying blindly because they can't face the idea of looking at someone while killing them etc, etc. The war against Skynet was the first time in human history that there was no one with moral qualms about the war or killing, because there's no moral conundrum in destroying a malfunctioning toaster. Humanity was fighting at 100% effectiveness for the very first time in its long history of killing for survival.

It depends on the lore and what canon you believe in. There's some crazy in the comics. The version of the timeline I go with involves just the first 2 movies and that Resistance game. Skynet knew it was losing and put most of its resources into the development of the time machine, which ironically left its defense grid weak enough for an assault to break through. Skynet managed to send back the t-800 for Sarah, t-1000 for John, and another t-800 for events in the Resistance game just seconds because its power was cut. There were more terminators that could have been sent, but the time machine went offline before they could go through.

That Resistance game looked really neat and I watched a clip where the player comes across a T-800 then it turned into a crouching stealth game. Not the worst idea but it sure would be neat if they could ever do a game where the Terminator is some sort of non giving up school guy. What I mean is a persistent threat. Kind of like Alien Isolation.

The T-1000's due to their structure can't be programmed/forced to obey like a T-800 does, that's what Skynet is afraid of. It's loyal at it's baseline to Skynet and Skynet's goals but if it decides to go off and do it's own thing Skynet has no control over it.

The problem with that is that in the future setting a terminator shouldn't actually be a problem unless it's facing an unarmed civilian. The reason they showed a terminator walking around hipfiring a plasma rifle in the movie was to show that Skynet was losing so bad that they were throwing everything and the kitchen sink at the humans, even their infiltration units without any skin on. The Resistance had trouble fighting the various Hunter-Killers, not human-sized robots that can be taken out with just one well-aimed shot.

Why was Skynet such a fucking loser?

Shitty code or ai functions in shitty way and plot armor.

The 1991 DOS game is sort of like that. You can play as Kyle or the terminator in open world LA. A remake I could actually get behind. Resistance also has a mode where you play as an infiltrator hunting resistance members.