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Ravenfood
Nov 4, 2011

OwlFancier posted:

When I played it to completion I chose the helios ending, as I recall it seems pretty good, everyone turns into a kind of collective consciousness and seems pretty well off all told.

I think it's less "become AI dictator of the world" and more "cause the singularity" which seems cool, and marxist.
It definitely does not. Denton/Helios just becomes a dictator with unprecedented surveillance and control options. Denton merges, nobody else does.

E: the fact that empowering an AI dictator can end up being one of the better options is just pretty bleak. It's probably better than anarchic primitivism, and definitely better than just continuing the existing technocratic capitalist crypto-overlord regime, but...it ain't good!

You can maybe hope you created a benevolent dictator at least.

Ravenfood fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jul 30, 2023

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Ravenfood
Nov 4, 2011

Queering Wheel posted:

None of the endings are ideal, but I've always thought that the Illuminati outcome is the best of them. A dark age would be absolutely catastrophic for all humanity, and a single person becoming dictator over the entire world is also pretty terrifying. At least the Illuminati is a group of people controlling everything, which isn't too terribly far off from where we are now. At least they stop the plague, hunger and riots and generally seem to be less terrible than those who controlled the world before.
Yeah but they also started them...

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