- WarEternal
- Dec 26, 2010
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Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
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If you only want to interpret things in the simulation metaphor, here you go:
there's this game called the talos principle, where you play a robot in a simulation, it's essentially a portal clone but it's pretty creative itself
anyway, at the center of the map, there's a tower, and the literal god of the simulation tells you not to climb the tower
so of course you do
and at the end, he tells you that of course you were supposed to climb the tower
you find out that the simulation is a program built by people, to evolve a strong ai, after climate change/the apocalypse kills all humans, so that robots can inherit the earth after them
the puzzles are all a test, to see if you can solve problems, but the 'tower' is itself a special kind of test test
a dependent robot doesn't climb the tower, since it doesn't have free will. it just does what it's told to do, doesn't climb the tower, and therefore fails
but an independent robot, one with true Strong AI, proves its independence, by defying its creator
long story short: there's always an 'out', there's always an answer, but it's never going to be handed to you, you have to wrestle it from the hands of the computer god, after you kill it
god is dead, long live man
So, is suicide the tower you're not supposed to climb?
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