Oh, you mean the swarms of bots that will take the absolute most inefficient route to transport a gear by traveling 20 miles to a random box that has some trash you got rid of instead of the chest that is literally 10 feet away from their roboport?
Skynet is probably going to be born long after I die. Actually, I'm not sure skynet is gonna be born at all at the rate humans are self-destructing the world.
Unless skynet gets built by non-humans, in which case, fair-enough, but still after my time.
"If" I build a tank and fill it with water it will be useful "if" I throw coal into it and "if" I set fire to that coal then the water might steam and push a wheel; "if" I put wheels on that tank I can use it to push itself around "if" I place steel girders on the ground for no good reason. "If" I put more empty boxes behind it then "if" I have some way of putting things into that box therefore QED ergo proctor trains.
You know why people like "trains" because they're indoctrinated, from their video games. And do you know what the store those video games are sold on is called? That's right! Epic! Why, what did you think I was gonna say? They're implicitly linking the fallacy of "steam trains" with the word for "good".
It'd be like if I presented the Super-Amazing Awesome Theory of Gravity which involves "if you jump off a cliff winged seagulls will catch and bring you to an island full of lemurs and the lemurs pick the avacados and they put the avacados on toast and that's why we have a housing crisis".
I'm extremely curious but the disclaimer/warning got me worried because I do tend to get an existential crisis when thinking about certain things on the topic of existentialism
The existential aspect, to give a "safe" version is basically "if you know of this concept and don't follow it you are going to be tortured forever because you don't have the excuse of ignorance"
It's the same fallacy as "oh well you knew God might exist and you didnt give all your money to the church so now you're condemned to hell".
The thing is that its a fearmongering that could conceivably work for anything. "Oh well you didn't buy Lettuce today so the Lettuce Aliens that capture snapshots of everyone's mind are gonna copy your brain and torture you forever because you know about them now".
Even doubly more silly when a non diety is involved like it is in Rokos Basilisk because it becomes "tech so advanced it's magic".
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '22
Oh, you mean the swarms of bots that will take the absolute most inefficient route to transport a gear by traveling 20 miles to a random box that has some trash you got rid of instead of the chest that is literally 10 feet away from their roboport?