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What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation? I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind

• satvikpendem 6mo ago
  In the show the device is not autonomous, humans use it.
  • observationist 6mo ago
    That can be a type of mind, though? It can also be a type of interface - a tap into a system not fully understood, controlling the perspective or view but not the process. The whole "mind of god" Deus/Devs, etc - I think it's left ambiguous on purpose for the hook but I always took it to be an AI flavored story at the core.
    • satvikpendem 6mo ago
      Maybe. The plot itself is based on a short story that Garland read, both the 2007 original [0] and its 2022 rewrite [1]. Qntm is great and their latest book, There Is No Antimemetics Division, recently was on HN as well [2]. [0] https://qntm.org/responsibility https://qntm.org/responsibility [1] https://qntm.org/responsibilit https://qntm.org/responsibilit [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853
      • observationist 6mo ago
        qntm has a wonderfully strange mind.