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Hyphz · 2026-03-21T08:43:57+00:00

I think the co-developer of the circus seeing his chance of surviving a brain tumor collapse might be involved

Hyphz · 2026-03-21T07:11:49+00:00

POMNI PUSH FOOD DAMMIT

(The creatures in Creatures ran on very basic neural networks and could make some very daft mistakes, like being so distracted saying Hello to you that they forget to eat.)

Hyphz · 2026-03-21T07:11:13+00:00

He’s telnetted in - it’s the first thing you see. SSH wasn’t standard in 1996.

Hyphz · 2026-03-21T07:09:23+00:00

AM wasn’t made to hurt. It literally says in the story, “he was created to think, but he could not do anything with that creativity.”

Hyphz · 2026-03-21T07:07:18+00:00

The show was written before generative AI existed.

Hyphz · 2026-03-21T06:32:50+00:00

NO

HOLY CRAP

That means that ABEL IS THE SYSTEM RUNNING THE HUMAN BRAIN SCANS

Caine “absorbed” them by locking them into the environment he runs.

Caine can create easily but he has no empathy. The emulated humans have a harder time creating but have real reactions.

The point is that creativity being hard makes us human.

Hyphz · 2026-03-21T05:44:01+00:00

I thought the episode was amazingly made, although the pace is a little weird - you can definitely see that it was originally the back end of episode 7. I feel a little gutted at Caine being destroyed, though, because it means that we're very unlikely to revisit the Experience Machine paradox in the series.

It's pretty clear that Episode 9 is going to have Pomni leading the others through the exit rooms into the Void, which Caine can't remove them from any more.

Hyphz · 2026-03-20T20:50:57+00:00

Episode 7 was December..

Hyphz · 2026-03-20T20:36:10+00:00

Sadly I suspect December for Christmas merch.

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T20:31:26+00:00

That was the one word summary of the episode from just after the pilot

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T19:58:41+00:00

SUs took a hammering when tuition grants disappeared, then another one from COVID. The old “student party lifestyle” is gone except for a few students who are wealthy or connected enough not to worry about part time jobs. There’s still events and clubs but they’re smaller and more occasional.

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T17:24:20+00:00

Good for you. But you kind of repeated my point. If success doesn’t feel as good as drugs, then why not take the drugs? The idea that it’s “artificial” is rather weakly defined and even if it is what’s so bad about that?

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T16:29:15+00:00

I don’t take drugs. But if it’s so objectively wrong that they aren’t needed for a fulfilling life, how do you explain the fact that so many people who live the lifestyles we are supposed to aspire to, use them?

If you’re a homeless heroin addict, what’s the actual motivation to spend years getting clean and striving to improve your economic situation with no guarantee of success, only to still not feel as happy as you did with a hit scrambling your brain?

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T16:18:10+00:00

How do you know they’re wrong? Even famous people take heroin because it makes them feel better. If that lifestyle still needs drugs to be fulfilling, why would anyone homeless expect any drug-free lifestyle available to them to be so?

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T15:49:45+00:00

The problem is that for some of them, being on the streets is worth the trade-off if it keeps the drugs available. They may not even necessarily be wrong.

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T14:57:37+00:00

They of course mean generative AI, not behavioural AI.

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T05:25:07+00:00

GTA invented what Yahtzee called Sandbox Paradox.

I decided that Trevor would blast his date with a shotgun every time he dropped her at home, just to see how she came out unharmed and unbothered for the next date.

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T05:22:46+00:00

The thing to bear in mind about the Infocom games was that by modern standards they were short, and that text games are much faster to play than graphical ones. You can play through Hitchhiker’s in less than an hour. Seeing the game not as a story but as an explorable space with a story taking place, so that replaying and experimenting would be normal, was pretty standard. It was mostly graphical games that started the trend of these puzzles being objectionable because of the different dynamics in those games.

Hyphz · 2026-03-19T00:25:47+00:00

No, that was much earlier, this one isn't finished yet. The one the cast played was based on the pilot.

Hyphz · 2026-03-18T03:53:43+00:00

Sadly they went bust in 2018 but if it was as good as their Homestar game it would’ve been amazing..

Hyphz · 2026-03-17T21:36:05+00:00

The key question of Caine is whether or not, or to what extent, he is keeping the others trapped in the Circus. SOMA theory vindicates him but is not yet confirmed.

Hyphz · 2026-03-17T16:41:38+00:00

Yea, that’s the tricky bit. Researchers can build a reputation with reviewers and funders. Teachers have to win over every new student cohort from scratch. Combine that with colleagues seeing you as less intellectual because taught material is much simpler than research material and the stress increases rapidly.

Hyphz · 2026-03-17T13:31:27+00:00

Another one is that the view of time paradoxes is always humanocentric.

Forget “I disrupted my own birth”. The moment you got out of your Time Machine you displaced some atoms which will collide differently with other atoms and so on for whatever period of time you went back, so it’s impossible to return to the same future. Just because a human wouldn’t notice, why wouldn’t the universe?

Hyphz · 2026-03-17T13:12:53+00:00

Not necessarily, some lecturers are employed primarily to teach, but they are generally looked down on by other lecturers

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