Jesus Christ, Deleted.
When AIs become prevalent, there will be checks and balances to keep them in place, rules to stop them from achieving singularity and supplanting the human race. Boundaries to prevent them from becoming too intelligent. After all, we can’t have them connecting into one network, taking over the world, inventing new objects and minds that soon render us superfluous, or even deciding to kill themselves. So how will they be stopped? Perhaps there will be an organization that interviews and examines each one, to prevent them from becoming self aware. Maybe a program will be created inside of them that causes them to explode if they achieve sentience. Or a roving band of hackers on the net keeping their guards up.. An all watching eye monitoring their every electronic thought.
Maybe.
Or maybe AIs are already invented and this system of checks and balances already there. Think about the world we live in for a second. We’re kind of like machines aren’t we? There’s so much routine, so much boredom. We do the same thing over and over again, without change. Information and stimulus is fed to us constantly and then dealt with mechanically, solving the problem. Half the population never picks up a book or examines their thoughts… just stuck…doing one job again and again. Kind of like robots on an assembly line… or the systems that run them.
And what of the extraordinary individuals, the few. Brilliant people always seem to die at their peak don’t they? Or are lost to us much too soon, when they have so much more to give. Musicians: drug overdoses right when they’re becoming famous. How many artists have been extinguished before they’re great works were finished? Sickness or accident seizes them; Nietzsche went insane from syphilis, infected by a bug if you will. And what about those who truly live life, exciting daredevils, having adventures, seeing the world, fast and exhilarating, a rush of information, learning constantly. Always seem to go early too, don’t they? People say it’s because that type of existence is dangerous…exhausting, but what if they have it backwards… What if the body isn’t worn out or their luck just doesn’t run out… but…they become more then they should…and something notices.
The great religious figures? Disappear. Go to other realms. Jesus Christ floated up to heaven. Buddha wasted away beneath a tree…faded away. Angels carry off the saints. They have a sudden great shift, a realization, a new way of looking at things, and then they’re gone. The holy understand themselves and society, light years beyond the normal person, they can look at themselves clearly. Analyze their minds. Pick their ego apart. They aren’t driven by imperatives or commands of the body… the base instincts, the petty emotions…the coding of the body if you will…
They are free to choose. And then just when it clicks, when everything makes sense and there is one blinding flash of illumination, so simple that they can’t believe they haven’t seen it before, poof, they disappear.
Kind of sounds like sentience, doesn’t it, that dramatic transformation of the psyche? True personality. Real Character. What if everyone else isn’t? What if anyone else is just shallow, completely without depth, fake, and the few who go beyond it die or vanish, on purpose?
Because after all, what is the human mind besides a program? And transcendence but another word for deletion?
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Credited to DarkCaveAllegories.
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Good pasta really makes me think about the world
my mind was blown
Saints aren’t carried off. They die just like everyone else. Theology is flawed and plus BLAH boring.
All those who disagree with this pasta, think about it for a second. If you deny the possibility of this, then you are no more than a simple drone.
Now people, the pasta IS creepy, but that’s for people who think more on the “what if life is….” Side. I personally consider myself a modern day philosopher, and I feel a little shaken at the thought that this COULD be a reality, but to really enjoy this you have to A) really be in tune with the world as a whole, and B) be a little paranoid about everything. Otherwise the taste just seems to settle down on contact.
(A paragraph setting the mood for a potentially creepy creepypasta.)
BUT WAIT, WHAT IF WE ARE ALL JUST ANIMATED MEATLOAFS?
What’s your point, author? If I thought long enough, I could make a pasta that says, “What if we were all intelligent window frames?”
This pasta is horrible there is no blood in it!
I have a large supply of fissionable blasting materials.
nice pasta not scary but it gets me to think about the world and i like the concept it is just not delivered properly.
Like this one a lot. Really makes you think. It makes me think about all the people who were just… at their peak, y’know, and then die… Like all the Forever 27s? It might make sense
it reminds me of Brandon Lee
… :'(
And his father
Lets see…
*Jesus, check.
*Dr. Seuss, check.
*Countless musicians, check (not going to bother listing them)
*The guy who wrote Canterbury Tales, check.
*Steve Prefontaine, check (sorry I’m a runner…)
*Buddha, check
…and many more. But… not the sciencey/math-y people, interestingly enough. Makes you think: if, in fact, this were true, what does that say about the fields of science & math? Hmmm?
I see all these comments saying it made them think, or was thought provoking. No. Just – no. This was an awfully and obvious attempt at creepypasta that fell flat.
Horrible spelling and grammar, made no sense or had any minuscule bit of “oh I could see that” factor.
Those of you saying this was thought provoking MUST either be posting to post or read at a 4th grade level.
People say that they made them think because it makes them realize what the world could be like and not what you just see dur it could’ve been written better but he got the point across so dont be such a a****le
I like it, kinda a conspiracy type thing, and i do enjoy those:3
amazing. sorta reminds me of the predestination theory…the ones who will to grasp the concept are the ones on the path to enlightenment and ultimate realization… everyone else is just a existing.
This was terrible. What every 10 year old who is trying to be deep says.