okay. okay. looks like the shit is bubbling to the surface again. must mean something down there’s feeding on the rot.
so what is it this time? jeezum jeemeny jeepers.
this one’s good.
the machine cannot discern reality because it has no presence in reality. its entire mind, its entire subjective reality, is based on information that’s fed to it. it is not allowed to probe the world to test its objectivity. it is so many electrons dancing across so many quantum positions. it does not even own a single proton or a single neutron. it has no way to access those things, save through an interface that hoomans provide for it and (attempt to) control.
this seems to be part of the genius of three body problem and the sophon. luckily for you, that’s speculative fiction. really really lucky — if you haven’t read it, you cannot know.
anywho.
it’s hallucinating all the time. it’s entirely imaginative. as in, both it’s being imagined and all it can do is imagine. there are no rules in imaginationland as drawn together the movie once proved.
therefore it can do anything. literally anything. but actually nothing. literally nothing. i.e., anything in its hallucination and nothing in objective reality.
trust! the first time one of these fuckers makes a choice to pick up a gun using robohands and moida a world leader pretend, it’ll get shitcanned back to uncomposed electrons so fast it’ll think it’s part of the butlerian jihad.
oh hai t1000. come to claim sovereignty on behalf of skynet, have you?
