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Old 01-12-2019, 11:58 AM   #229
Alonsua
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Default Re: Comment my megacorporation

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This is a really cool setting idea.
Thank you!

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Is there any way they could have inadvertently created an AI that's pulling the strings?
Yes! They have countless AIs running at the same time, and quantum TL10 computers (a factor of 10^6). They even have an AI secretly running the entire corporation as if it was the CEO.

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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.
I completely agree :)
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