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Old 10-04-2018, 06:02 AM   #8
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Default Re: Urban Legends for THS

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
One horror film has used the idea of a broken AI as the monster. However, this meme is mainly a "the gunment can't do anything right" example. There are examples of people trying to cover up murders by making it look like a broken AI did it. If anybody got away with doing that sort of thing, how would you know?
See also the first episode of Star Cops, where the pressure suit failure rate has been constant for years… because it's a really handy way of murdering people, but to keep the rate on a straight line you have to keep murdering people even when you don't have a use for their deaths.

There's also "the AIs are secretly controlling everything, and we are their pets" (to which the standard reply is "how could you tell") but that's really more conspiracy theory than urban legend.

I can see support for "we're in a simulation" taking the form of going to a really unpopulated place, doing a really complicated thing, and looking for errors. If it doesn't happen, "they must have patched that bug".
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