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ErhnamDJ · 01-12-2019, 10:58 AM

This is a really cool setting idea. Is there any way they could have inadvertently created an AI that's pulling the strings? That could explain how they're able to manipulate people so easily and have almost a psychic-like foresight for how events will play out.

If you know how the effects of your actions will trickle through society, you can manipulate the two party system and make one of the parties collapse. You can send in a plague that knocks out the supreme court justices. You can do almost anything. And this would all be "comic book" realistic--that is, the kind of thing that appears plausible if you don't tug too hard at the seams and see what begins to unravel.

01-12-2019, 10:58 AM	#223
ErhnamDJ Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: OK	Re: Comment my megacorporation This is a really cool setting idea. Is there any way they could have inadvertently created an AI that's pulling the strings? That could explain how they're able to manipulate people so easily and have almost a psychic-like foresight for how events will play out. If you know how the effects of your actions will trickle through society, you can manipulate the two party system and make one of the parties collapse. You can send in a plague that knocks out the supreme court justices. You can do almost anything. And this would all be "comic book" realistic--that is, the kind of thing that appears plausible if you don't tug too hard at the seams and see what begins to unravel. __________________ "For the rays, to speak properly, are not colored. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color." —Isaac Newton, Optics My blog.