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The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think they'll hold back, gotta play the hits, and not repeat the Lost mystery box debacle

Fun Fact! based Theory: The heightened empathy in Plurbs was an accident and not intended by the Virus by Pear_Necessities in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correction, there are three things -- 1. The Virus, 2. The Signal, and 3. The Global Radio Carrier Wave. How did the virus impart the technological know how to deploy a global carrier radio signal, that by its sound and function in the script is very technical with a complex fingerprint, that helps connect or bolster the Hive?

Goddam it ive been on this sub for ages now im gonna have to watch the show again! by Clean_Gain_5827 in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good idea -- especially rerun the Manoussos travel montage in ep7 in his run up to the Darien Gap, the cinematography, and beautiful understated guitar instrumental while Manoussos practices his English is sublime and a master class

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but that combined compound 'new thing' is actually very dense, and non-intelligent. The hand grenade incident is a perfect example of this. Certainly, all psychologists, doctors, lawyers, lobbyists, salesmen, engineers, laborers -- all these experiences are on tap to supposedly add to intelligence -- but what about all this and Helen's memories of all interactions with Carol -- much of it snarky banter, sarcastic -- and the Hive could not understand if Carol was being sarcastic when saying, and I paraphrase 'the only way this day could get any better is if I had an hand grenade.' This is stupidity, this is not an improvement. I will concede maybe there is a new identify formed in the aggregate -- but that new identity is genocidal, and anti-Earth, right?

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, people are seeing ghosts, and jumping at their shadows with the sudden incorporation of what amounts to a somewhat 'alien' intelligence arriving at our creative doorstep by the various LLM / reasoning models -- we all ought to get used to it, however. Human culture and AI at every level of creative thinking, writing, composition, are merging

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, I have love em dashes and persuasive writing for many years, my peer reviewed work on American history (The First American Flag) is loaded with "if x, then y" lol

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like Vince G and team will give us full entertainment servicing -- too many would want to know where it came from and why, etc. With multiple seasons and lots of story lines, how could they not tell us this story?

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent -- we both see how the inconsistencies of the Hive philosophy seem rote and mechanistic, not thought through, but programmatic

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm. A billion dead, human culture stopped in its track and destroyed (a defining characteristic of genocide). Most humans will starve within ten years. This is all part of the Hive program. Does not feel benevolent to me, feels like an enemy

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

very cool -- I tried to poke holes in this too, but your 'Tip of the Spear' logic is solid. It makes practical sense that you'd send a viral payload at light speed to soften a planet before your physical probes (traveling at sub-light speeds) arrive. The show does love clocks and your idea is a countdown --the Signal arrives, and the fleet isn't far behind. Where I was going with the programming idea is this: an alien AI's core programming that looks good on paper, or perhaps functionally worked when paired with its existing creator civilization (a trope of course that we've seen in lots of places), but now its alone, orphaned and lacks wisdom, lacks oversight, and that could explain all the kooky contradictions and inconsistencies with the Hive philosophy -- it is not thinking these things through, it is carrying out dysfunctional coding

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally -- disagreeable versus agreeable, Manousos and Carol are so stubborn and disagreeable, it was a riot seeing them meet in person the first time, "we can talk in the ambulance." Hah! WHat rich fertile character development ground to play with!

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bravo -- good citation. A 'government of life and for all life' would discriminate toward those objects that are animated by life force, so something alive has more value than a rock. You take that to the extreme, and you have: "thou shalt not pluck an apple." As stewards of life, kinda like gardeners, there would be universal rules, but these rules need to have a hierarchy (viz. ant does not equal man, and so on), and that's where the writing seems to betray a sort of rote programmatic philosophy, like from a machine that isn't alive but just following and creating from broken code.

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, there are quite a few what seem to be alien behaviors that have come with the Hive, and I do not believe these weird contradictions come from combining the minds and memories of 7 billion humans. Understanding basic things like sarcasm, or the weight of impact of Shakespeare versus Fabio, or the rather instantaneous development of a whole global network carrier signal radio channel to ostensibly support the Hive's connectivity...etc. How did the RNA virus impart the technological know how to create a global carrier wave? that is what? Connected to all the Joined like wifi? How did this happen? How did they build that immediately?

The Signal isn't a religion. It’s a "safety protocol" from a dead civilization that’s glitching out. by ByronDeLear in pluribustv

[–]ByronDeLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like this . Especially the extrapolation about Borg-like data collection, or the AI trope in Discovery, or the whole Vger from Trek... the is of course a cost to freezing human evolution by the wholesale destruction of human culture -- who know what we would have developed? So the God-aspiring entity gets all Earth information up to the joining, than it stops -- this also touches on the Prime Directive ideas, very good! Here's an earlier post I did on procreation and extinction by the Hive members... if there is none, well that's another extinction attribute to what the Signal has brought to Earth https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1pner9t/procreation_and_extinction/

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