Pluribus is a collective intelligence/virus which forcefully (leads to hundreds of millions of deaths) injects itself into biospheres and then blissfully experi

Pluribus is a collective intelligence/virus which forcefully (leads to hundreds of millions of deaths) injects itself into biospheres and then blissfully experiences itself without, of course, hurting itself in any way. Then it might eventually start starving to death because of that prime directive. That is positively utopian compared to AI where 99.9% of humanity gets to experience a hall of uncanny valley mirrors until they are shipped off to the scrapyard or get artificially augmented with some AI mindfuck and start thinking “you’re absolutely right!” themselves. (I mean that’s the dystopian version. But if you are comparing AI to that show then presumably you think that AI is at least a little bit dystopian.) The virus in Pluribus can even be talked with and reasoned with like a distinct entity that is real and has its own thoughts. Oh boy, much better than a million pastiches of a million echoes of the past where there is no original thought to be traced back to after 2022. The motivation for the virus is also completely different to the motivation of the AI Overlords. But it’s that pretty typical lack of popular imagination. Some individual/collective narrative is presented. The flawed but autonomous individual rebelling against the flawless but enslaved collective. But dang it, I’m an American and I value my freedoms. Released forty years ago and people would rave about how it aptly critiqued the Soviet Union.