User:CyberSkull/Appendix:Science fiction

G

• growpramming
  • portmanteu of grow + programming
  • first appearance in Schlock Mercenary Sunday April 19^th, 2009
  1. programmatically growing an artificial intelligence from a seed program.

S

• seed program
  1. A program used to grow a complex system (such as an artificial intelligence) from a standard source. see also: bootstrapping.
• skinjob (skin job?)
  1. Pejorative for a cybernetic organism of mechanical origins attempting to pass as human or organic.
  • Origins: w:Blade Runner, popular in the new Battlestar Galactica.