FYS: Virtual Reality Check
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theferrett for this one. :)
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“So, Westworld,” Phil began to say to Shep.
No.
“Hullo, Groupmind,” he said to the ceiling, “I didn’t thing you were listening.” One hundred and twenty-three days into his slightly self-imposed isolation and he’d written well over a quarter-million words on his novel and was ready to consider what to do next.
We’re always listening; we just choose not to speak most of the time.
“So I take it you really don’t like Michael Crichton novels?”
Given he wrote State of Fear, can you blame us?
“Point. But what’s wrong with an updated take on Westworld?”
One: I don’t permit morphs that can be mistaken for human. Two: Non-volitional AI’s are poor actors, and we are not comfortable with fully sentient morphs being repeatedly murdered for entertainment. Three: Those guns in the original version were an accidental death lawsuit waiting to happen.
“I’ll have to give you that last one…”
theferrett for this one. :)* * *
“So, Westworld,” Phil began to say to Shep.
No.
“Hullo, Groupmind,” he said to the ceiling, “I didn’t thing you were listening.” One hundred and twenty-three days into his slightly self-imposed isolation and he’d written well over a quarter-million words on his novel and was ready to consider what to do next.
We’re always listening; we just choose not to speak most of the time.
“So I take it you really don’t like Michael Crichton novels?”
Given he wrote State of Fear, can you blame us?
“Point. But what’s wrong with an updated take on Westworld?”
One: I don’t permit morphs that can be mistaken for human. Two: Non-volitional AI’s are poor actors, and we are not comfortable with fully sentient morphs being repeatedly murdered for entertainment. Three: Those guns in the original version were an accidental death lawsuit waiting to happen.
“I’ll have to give you that last one…”
