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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Interesting premise, but it doesn’t belong on this website: it simply isn’t creepy. It comes off more like a conspiracy theory. Still, it would make an interesting Science-Fiction with some tweaking.
The title is deceiving….*facepalm*
too much cheese in pasta. stale too. self indulgent and pseudo. u dun sound smart as much as u do annoying
i just…..nah it was horrible :( >:( *blech*
The pseudo-intellectuality of this bugged me. Did the architect inspire someone to write this?
the AI we have today can’t take over the world because it has no ‘desire’ to
Very predictable ending.
This pasta tried to be intellectual but it failed. =(
interesting, but not delicious.
4/10
Except you’d be already dead for knowing too much if this was true. Try harder next time, pal.
Well, except you’d be already dead for knowing too much if this was true. Sorry pal, try harder next time.
This sucked.
tresssssssssss bien
Ever read “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”?
I didn`t really get it…
Time for the red pill, folks.
Light years is distance, not time.
This pasta gave me food poisoning.
This pasta gave me food poisoning.
I liked it a lot. It wasn’t creepy, but I still enjoyed it thoroughly.
It reminds me of a mix of the Matrix and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica
BUT WHO WAS DELETE!???
This was awful.
ok, i trought the worst story i could read this week was that “tall man” thing, but this? this is terrible.
the concept, it is overused, being already expressed in everything from movies to songs and decent creepypastas (heck, even in crappy ones!) and it is repetitive, without a central point or anything to focus on. clearly written by someone really young, with no real documentation or anything other than newspapers or tv.
still, some parts in this can be saved if put in a slightly more original contest.
Could have elaborated, would want moar pasta.
But a sample size is fine, too.
My ROFLCOPTER goes “………….” apparently.
*ahem* attention please! author, ur a fucktard. tthank you that is all
Interesting? Yes.
Creepy? No.
light years is measured in distance god dammit
The scary thing about it is that it’s goddamn true. o_O