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Spoilers for the game SOMA (2015): In SOMA you wake up from a brain scan a few hundred years in the future, in an underwater research base. You discover that y

by tapoxi 3y ago

Spoilers for the game SOMA (2015): In SOMA you wake up from a brain scan a few hundred years in the future, in an underwater research base. You discover that your neural scan, used to treat a terminal illness, has been used without your consent to create AI models. You are not special, just a commonly used AI template, somewhat like a HeLa cell, and the player-character instantiation of you was just brought online as a fallback for controlling machinery. You discover a computer with a few copies of other scans, need to extract information from some of them, and realize you've been instantiated and "killed" millions of times, some lives only lasting seconds. It's mentioned that AIs are always created from these snapshots as long-running instances are prone to instability due to suffering, though different personalities can handle different workload durations before failure. It's horrifying. It's weird we're even thinking of this stuff now.

jdiez17 3y ago
See also: MMAcevedo (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo)
catchnear4321 3y ago
> You discover that your neural scan, used to treat a terminal illness, has been used without your consent to create AI models. that takes a little while though, doesn’t it? initially you just think you’re a soon-to-die meat sack deep under water, and with no clue how you got there. perhaps thinking of this stuff, now, is very much the point. and talking about it. just in case any copies come across it later.
piva00 3y ago
A similar trope/plot on "Altered Carbon" (both book and series) where a neural implant allows consciousness to be moved between new bodies (called "sleeves"). Even though the Apple TV's adaptation of "Foundation" goes way out of the books storyline I did enjoy this concept explored on their invention of the Cleons in Dawn, Day, and Dusk. It's very horrifying in any case.

by tapoxi 3y ago

jdiez17 3y ago

See also: MMAcevedo (https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo)

catchnear4321 3y ago

> You discover that your neural scan, used to treat a terminal illness, has been used without your consent to create AI models. that takes a little while though, doesn’t it? initially you just think you’re a soon-to-die meat sack deep under water, and with no clue how you got there. perhaps thinking of this stuff, now, is very much the point. and talking about it. just in case any copies come across it later.

piva00 3y ago

A similar trope/plot on "Altered Carbon" (both book and series) where a neural implant allows consciousness to be moved between new bodies (called "sleeves"). Even though the Apple TV's adaptation of "Foundation" goes way out of the books storyline I did enjoy this concept explored on their invention of the Cleons in Dawn, Day, and Dusk. It's very horrifying in any case.