I wonder if :melon-musk: will have an extra bad sundowning day in his midlife crisis and announce something actually named Torment Nexus to get ahead of the curve.

  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    Some sort of virtual pet snake named Roko in the metaverse or some shit

    Some computer system called AM

    And I'm still shocked there isn't something in the tech world called HAL

    • mittens [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's because HAL technically already exists, it's IBM with every character shifted one position on the alphabet. Also HAL Laboratory, the company that developed Smash Bros did the same thing apparently without knowing it was done in 2001 Space Oddysey already.

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        HAL Laboratory, the company that developed Smash Bros did the same thing apparently without knowing it was done in 2001 Space Oddysey already.

        neat. You can tell because of the way it is.

    • read_freire [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      And I’m still shocked there isn’t something in the tech world called HAL

      yeah the lack of a Hal 9000 voice assistant is shocking to me, if Halo 5 hadn't been so hamfisted about the Cortana heel turn we would've gotten basically the same thing in the MS voice assistant but they did :shrug-outta-hecks:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        I stopped caring about the Halo series right around the time the narrative of the games tried to make you horny for Cortana WHILE she was also trying to kill/corrupt/whatever Master Chief. Was there a heel turn since then? I really hate Blizzard-style committee-designed "corrupt sexy evil" characters.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            3 years ago

            I guess Blizzardesque storywriting is all sexual pathology, theirs specifically. "The hot female is also bad and needs to be subjugated and 'cured' somehow, bucko!" :jordan-eboy-peterson: