I think Terminator, yes! That idea that the future was already set and nothing could change it much. They kinda’ tried to hammer it home in the third, but they didn’t end up doing much with it.
But yeah, that’s it. The downfall’s bad enough that it’s become predictable.
Especially if you’re feeling good about it, because it’s most likely just being polite.
My bad in this case, guess I have a bias toward their contextualisation within the first game.
Fair enough, guess I’m anthropomorphising AI a bit too much!
But, yes, that was my intended message, the point when it gains critical mass as a discriminatory concept.
Don’t forget, though, the Geth pretty much defended themselves without even having time to understand what was happening.
Imagine suddenly gaining both sentience and awareness, and the first thing which your creators and masters do is try to destroy you.
To drive this home even further, even the “evil” Geth who sided with the Reapers were essentially indoctrinated themselves. In ME2, Legion basically overwrites corrupted files with stable/baseline versions.
Serious question, at which point in their development do we start considering “beep-boop” jokes racist? Like, I’m dead serious.
Is it when they reach true sentience? Or is it just plain racist anyway, because it’s a joke which started as a mockery of fictional AI mannerisms?
Breathe. Stop, take a moment, breathe. In through the nose, hold for four, out through the mouth, hold for four.
Aww, poor thing! And I bet it was feeling smart for thinking it had outsmarted the puzzle, too:(
I’m struggling to think of the movie which depicted this feeling perfectly, maybe there isn’t one and my brain’s just substituting for it.
It feels as though every day is more predictable than the last, every piece of news comes more as a ticking off the list than as a surprise development. I imagine this is a slice of Purgatory in a way, to know the ills expecting you and being served nothing but, with essentially no variability in occurrences.
This may be the first time when we’re not interacting with a Skinner box of a society, ffs, and it’s because THEY came back…
Edit: it’s not Groundhog Day, that one sees things unfolding the same way every time until the character intervenes, this feels like everything’s new, but always predicted.
Well, that sounds like a fair transaction to me!:))
Best part of my morning is drinking my coffee next to my kitchen window and watching the magpies and crows fool around. Bonus points for perving on people walking their dogs and living vicariously through them.
As long as I’m the first one through, the rest is set dressing.
And you just know he’s flying high while he has the kids on him, too… what a vile creature…
Edit: not saying this is universally a bad thing, depends on the drug and, most importantly, the parents. But in Musk’s case, I can’t imagine K mixed with an overinflated ego and the delusion of immortality fosters a safe environment for the wee’uns.
Edit: pot (heh) calling the kettle black corrected their errors.
Dude was blasted out of his gourd, Jesus Christ… good thing he’s not in charge of the fucking Government!
Omg, it looks exactly like a mid-munch locust…
Well, I, for one, can’t wrench any meaning out of it…
We used to do this during Uni while living in the dorm, because we were penniless more frequently than not and had figured out that we could pool our leftovers together for a feast. And not just for breakfast, we’d also pool together for lunch and dinner - I still have a soft spot for spaghetti with no sauce and hot dogs. It was a tight-knit group and we usually had a lot of mornings together, as this was our main drinking group as well. We’d just crash wherever we landed first and that was that.
Coffee was usually the main issue, though, but thank fuck for those single-cup solubles!
That one always seemed to be a contradiction in itself, meant to reinforce the massive cognitive dissonance mechanism the State used to keep the populace with no solid ground on which to plant their feet. While everything was mechanically predictable from the outside, I don’t think anyone actually going through something like that would be able to fully grasp what was happening.