It could also be acting in a way not intended by its originators.
Spoilers Vince Gilligan's Pluribus starring Rhea Seehorn
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It could also be acting in a way not intended by its originators.
It strikes me that if you have sex with one of the joined your basically having sex with all your friends and relatives...
It's even worse than that. You would have the memories of the very moment you were conceived from the point of view from both of your parents.
Zosia did sort of imply that over the massages I guess.
Talking of Zosia, that pause, was it because the Hive detected that Manousos was getting close, or was it because Carol making Zosia recall a specific memory almost disconnected her from the Hive?
The whole 'pay it forward' thing is terrifying.
Talking of Zosia, that pause, was it because the Hive detected that Manousos was getting close, or was it because Carol making Zosia recall a specific memory almost disconnected her from the Hive?
The whole 'pay it forward' thing is terrifying.
Well, we have to figure out a world out there, that has life on it, first, at just the right point in their development to figure out the message, without figuring out that it's a trap.
So we need to find a planet, and then spend 10 thousand years, hammering it with a signal, waiting for them to invent radio, and notice the gift they are being given.
The running down of biological life victimized by this virus, might just be the push necessary to invent AI adaptive enough to maintain a radio transmission for the next ten thousand years, since the human race in the Plurabis universe is not going to last much longer if they can't farm.
So maybe the real invasion has not even started?
No way, if a species had the ability to cross interstellar distances they wouldn't send a virus recipe via radio waves, they'd just show up in orbit, fire the airborne virus into the atmosphere and wait a few days for us to roll out the red carpet for them.
I was suggesting that the invasion is local AI.
The virus forces humanity 2.0 to invent AI that can do what it it can't, long after they are gone, to "pay it forward".
Although after I wrote that, I remembered that the hive shat on the idea of using AI to pick apples, since it would have to be them who is programming the relentless murder of apples... Although this would be creating AI to do something that at they can do: General maintenance of multiple massive physical antennae for 10 centuries, powering the antennae, sourcing fuel, while maintaining signal strength and direction.
Which is millions of robots doing millions of jobs for possibly millions of years.
Then you have eight billion bodies to clean up. If it is a prelude to an invasion, it is diabolical.
It's the fucking Catholic Church simulating Revelation!
Seriously though...
What about Peta?
On the one hand, the concept of this show is fantastic. On the other hand, the show moves so slowly that I find myself totally disengaging while I watch it. It just doesn't have enough pep, oomph, and pizazz to keep me solidly hooked. Even still, I'm looking forward to the ending anyway.
I don't disagree with the pacing, but I actually quite enjoy that, don't ask me why!
It's essentially the same pacing as Better Call Saul (but perhaps less so for Breaking Bad at its height) and I love that methodic, mediative approach.
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