Split: Zeroes And Ones

The trope name sounds like it's supposed to be taken literally, when it's actually about AI thinking in a constrained manner. Did a quick check of the first five unpunctuated wicks, and they were all misuse taking the name literally. There are also a lot of misused examples on the page.

So this needs to be split into the trope it wants to be and the trope or tropes people think it is. They may all need new names.

The misuse seems to be split into a few categories:

• Zeroes and ones are literally showing up in the world, either on a computer screen or just floating around as a visual effect, probably just for the spectacle (could be renamed to Binary Is Cool or something)
• Binary code is a plot point, somebody talks in binary, or something similar (Binary Code already redirects to Binary Bits And Bytes or I'd suggest that)
• Somebody happens to mention binary code (we can probably cut these)

edited 23rd Oct '10 11:31:04 AM by Comonad

Ok, so what IS this trope? At all? It seems to me to just be an article on what binary actually is, there's nothing about how it impacts the story or how it's even USED in the story. It's not People Sit On Chairs, but it's not really... anything.

edited 23rd Oct '10 11:57:52 AM by TheInferno

This can mean several things: a computer is not capable of abstract thought; a computer can deal only with certainties, not probabilities or shades of gray; a computer cannot lie; a computer must behave logically; a computer can be programmed by tapping in binary instructions morse-code-like by shorting across a circuit. It can mean all sorts of things, most of which aren't actually true.

This paragraph seems to be the heart of the trope. A lot of the rest of the description can be cut and improve its understandability.

We might as well get rid of this trope entirely; the parts that aren't People Sit On Chairs are lumpable with Straw Vulcan.

I dont know its more extreme than Straw Vulcan a subtrope I could see.

This would always be Yes or No there is no imbetween while Straw Vulcan isnt quite as bad.

edited 23rd Oct '10 1:39:53 PM by Raso

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