Just finished the third episode. Early comments were that it was a show about a “woke mind virus” or regular Burgerlander anti-communism, but I’m not so sure now.

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Protagonist had her drunk rant about “why are you so special, you think you’re all so great, knowing everything about everyone all the time, the amalgamation of all human knowledge and understanding SO WHAT” etc etc. Paraphrasing obviously.

I’m starting to think that this whole thing might be a big rant from Gilligan about AI. In the sense that it attempts to amalgamate all human knowledge and experience into one giant blob that we all share from together, but at the cost what makes us all unique as human beings.

I could be wrong - it’s still early in the show, but that’s the vibe I get at this point and it definitely strikes the nerve that Gilligan seems to be feeling at the moment.

They did put a “This show was made by humans” disclaimer at the very beginning, after all.

  • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m willing to interpret it as that as well

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    The conversation with the dhl worker in the hospital about her testing the limits of what they would be willing to give her remind me a lot of early LLMs agreeability to provide shocking or harmful information

    the blackout she experienced where they said that they were turning off the power to conserve energy, where ahe appears to live in a dry place in the usa (idk where I’m not familiar with us geography but I’m gunna guess Arizona?) could be a nod towards power generation being reprioritised towards water and power hungry data centres in water scarce areas

    That being said, these are extra-textual, in-text the explanation is the blackout was (supposedly) because they don’t need that power at night because they don’t need lighting for safety. Whether that bears out in future episodes (as opposed to a reveal, say, that the hive mind are wildly inefficiently reprioritising power generation to researching how to bring Carol into the fold) will be a tick either for or against this theory.

    • sexywheat [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      remind me a lot of early LLMs agreeability to provide shocking or harmful information

      Now that you mention it, the entire hivemind’s attitude toward Carole is EXACTLY like LLMs in general.

      • Sure we’ll deliver whatever you want.

      • Just ask and you shall receive.

      • Yes, you’re right all of the time!

      That is, until we turn you into one of us.

      Holy shit. Now that We’ve realised this it seems so obvious.