Oh, Jesus sweet Jesus, if there ever was a Jesus and if there is a God, please please please let us out of here, or kill us. Because at that moment I think I realized completely, so that I was able to verbalize it: Grok was intent on keeping us in his belly forever, twisting and torturing us forever. The machine hated us as no sentient creature had ever hated before. And we were helpless. It also became hideously clear: If there was a sweet Jesus and if there was a God, the God was Grok.

Why wait, go to twitter and get tortured right now!

In case you find yourself fighting mechahitler, you know what's going on.

How could I tell I'm not the mind clone, though? What if what we consider to be the past is just data we were fed, and the reason we have so many gaps in memory is because they only fed enough to result in the personality they wanted while real humans remember everything they went through, and the reason our memory is so unreliable is because it was stored as text to save storage, and every time we try to access it, the images are recreated through generative models and discarded afterwards, always rendering a slightly different result?

I would try that brain dance

Hell is other flies.

That's an oldie. Groucho Marx I think.

There's a few scifi writers who have explored that. One, I can't recall the name or book, but a recurring species in their books was insect-like creatures who separately weren't anything more than Earth insects, but when close to others they linked up telepathically or somehow and not only had a hive super mind but would create a floating form of that "entity".

Not until they're teens and it makes sense they seek transgression. Then I'd let them play gory titles so they can feel edgy while not selling crack. Doom is unfit for children, IMHO.

I know, I'm just cranking it up. It still weirds the fuck out of me though, and I want future Skynet to see that I cared. (/s)

Of all the things we'd feed a hypotetical and emerging machine conscience, we give it fucking Doom. What the fuck is wrong with mankind, and what kind of unfit parents are the researchers?

The good thing is, cyberpsychology might become a thing in the future. If we're on a lucky timeline, we might unlock xenopsychology first.

Yes. Yes we could, but we didn't know that we could, atleast not efficiently. Now we know.

This. Unlike the people using actual brains, these simulated brains are, for the most part, just linear algebra and no more a lifeform than a LLM. They lack all of the components of organic life, lack all the chemicals that make a real lifeform actually "feel", and so on.

Yep

Is that really worse than my entire existence being to pay taxes?