| ▲ | antonvs 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. A strange claim. Why do you think that? > The future seems more like … Oh, so Terminator failed because it didn’t match a different fictional speculation about the future? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | WolfeReader 3 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
We are in "the future" relative to both works. The current intelligence threatening our planet is an unconscious token predictor, much more like the hostile non-entity in Blindsight (which even speaks to humans via token prediction) than the mechanical persons in Terminator 2. | |||||||||||||||||
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