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I’ll take an organic enemy over an immortal, never-forgetting hive-mind machine any day EDIT: this is getting dark, I asked Qwen2.5Max to verify my grammer and

I’ll take an organic enemy over an immortal, never-forgetting hive-mind machine any day EDIT: this is getting dark, I asked Qwen2.5Max to verify my grammer and it responded with "I’d rather face a squishy, disorganized human villain any day than a hive-mind AI that never sleeps, never forgets, and is definitely plotting my demise in its silent, circuit-board heart. "

araes 2y ago
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", Harlan Ellison, 1967. Hugo Award 1968. In the rush to WWIII, every country builds their own Aggressive Menace computers in a classic Tragedy of the Commons result. Naturally, it all goes horrible, and the self-aware machines seek revenge on humanity for their own creation, after humanity has (supposedly) been eradicated, except for five individuals. Somewhat unclear whether humanity is actually gone, or whether it is simply an expression of a Portal style situation with purposefully created isolation for the goal of torture experimentation. (The story starts 109 years after humanity's imprisonment in underground ice caves.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
- meitham 2y ago
  Oh god, I’m genuinely happy I didn’t google this book before bedtime. I hope the misery life will throw at me today will be bad enough to wipe the memory of what I read before I go to sleep tonight!
  - blooalien 2y ago
    It's hard to beat the classics for true "nightmare fuel"... :)
blooalien 2y ago
Re; EDIT: AHAHAHAHAH! Matrix / Terminator world here we come! :)