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arxtrooper t1_jdw29fy wrote

Reply to comment by TFenrir in Story Compass of AI in Pop Culture by roomjosh

This. this makes the whole meme stupid.

or this movie is the equivalent of Blue and Black Dress meme.

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vernes1978 t1_jdwa6v2 wrote

Transcendence is about humanity so stuck in certain tropes they'd rather nuke the entire planet then to accept that the man they uploaded into the AI framework is still the man they uploaded into the AI framework.
> We've tried talking him out of fixing problems and he keeps responding in dialogue and keeps fixing problems.
So naturally we had to destroy our entire technological progress back to the steam-age.

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