Nostradamus_2
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Nostradamus_2
1mo ago
Thank you for the feedback. I really need to edit better.
Yeah, I think, strangely, this one was more fun to write than to actually read, because it was an interesting subject to learn about, and I enjoyed trying to ground an idea that felt very abstract---not sure if I 100% pulled it off, but I got closer than I thought I would. As a result, it ended up being a little more theory than fiction.
I haven't read Annihilation. I've been meaning to. The concept is right up my alley, but the movie's ending really threw me off. Completely unintelligible: either I'm stupid or it basically just devolves into substanceless performance art with no discernible payoff (both are probably true). I hear the book is way different, though.
Nostradamus_2
1mo ago
I'm surprised people actually read this here.
The reason why I chose to have the sister not in any danger is that I wanted to show how the AI is so advanced that it models psychological processes that we wouldn't even notice. He's not thinking about how his sister's going through that strait, but it is subconsciously effecting him in an irrational way, and those irrational, subconscious processes are our weakness if there was something smart enough to predict them.
In essence, imagine something so good at manipulating you on such a tiny scale that you couldn't possibly begin to fight back. That's what I was going for.
Yes, pretty much
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