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- You haven't been listening.
- Yes, I have.
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I loved it when you nuked Las Vegas.
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A suitably biblical ending for the place,
don't you think?
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Are you gonna tell them
what Joshua's doing?
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Now, children, come on over here.
I'm going to tell you a bedtime story.
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Are you sitting comfortably?
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Then I'll begin.
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Once upon a time, there lived
a magnificent race of animals
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who dominated the world
through age after age.
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They ran and they swam
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and they fought and they flew.
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Until suddenly,
quite recently, they disappeared.
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Nature just gave up and started again.
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We weren't even apes then.
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We were just these smart little rodents
hiding in the rocks.
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And when we go, nature will start again.
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With the bees probably.
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Nature knows when to give up, David.
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I'm not giving up.
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If Joshua tricks them
into launching an attack, it'll be your fault.
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My fault? The whole point was
to find a way to practise nuclear war
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without destroying ourselves.
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To get the computers to learn from
mistakes we couldn't afford to make.
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Except I never could get Joshua
to learn the most important lesson.
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What's that?
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Futility. That there's a time
when you should just give up.
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What kind of a lesson is that?
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Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?
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Yeah. Of course.
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- But you don't any more?
- No.
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Why?
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Because it's a boring game.
It's always a tie.
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Exactly. There's no way to win.
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The game itself is pointless.
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But back at the war room,
they believe you can win a nuclear war.
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That there can be acceptable losses.