It kept reminding me of that Monty Python skit with the joke so funny everyone who hears it dies.
Why commit suicide though? Surely it'd give you a chance to experiment, take chances, do weird stuff you wouldn't normally. Unless the sims were programmed to self-destruct if they found out the truth.
Plus the random number thing was very dramatic and effective but didn't make sense. If people were simmed to such complexity, it would be easy enough to generate different sets of pseudo-random numbers for each of them. AIs being humans are infinitely more complex than a random number generator. When sims tested the random number thing, it was always the same sequence - what if they'd already used up some of it somewhere else, like in a game? The CERN scientists would be further along the one sequence too if they'd self-tested.
I thought someone must have hacked the system to insert the Extremis text and only one 'random' sequence to sabotage it, as why otherwise even have the Extremis text?
But I was thinking about it all far too much and it's certainly better not to in DW, esp with this particular arc.
no subject
Why commit suicide though? Surely it'd give you a chance to experiment, take chances, do weird stuff you wouldn't normally. Unless the sims were programmed to self-destruct if they found out the truth.
Plus the random number thing was very dramatic and effective but didn't make sense. If people were simmed to such complexity, it would be easy enough to generate different sets of pseudo-random numbers for each of them. AIs being humans are infinitely more complex than a random number generator. When sims tested the random number thing, it was always the same sequence - what if they'd already used up some of it somewhere else, like in a game? The CERN scientists would be further along the one sequence too if they'd self-tested.
I thought someone must have hacked the system to insert the Extremis text and only one 'random' sequence to sabotage it, as why otherwise even have the Extremis text?
But I was thinking about it all far too much and it's certainly better not to in DW, esp with this particular arc.