That’s an interesting reading! Thanks for sharing it. Spoilers for a Black Mirror episode, in ROT13: Vg erzvaqf zr bs gur Oynpx Zveebe rcvfbqr, Unat gur QW, nobhg gur fvzhyngvba qngvat ncc.
I personally prefer the reading where the protagonist is a human in a different universe where AI is a little more advanced than now, because I like the feeling of him being corrupted in a way that’s world-dooming but beautiful-to-him at the same time.
At one point I assigned myself the homework of watching all of black mirror so as to understand “what cultural associations would be applied to what ideas by default”…
...and most of the episodes had me suppressing anger at the writers for just writing characters who violate the same set of very basic rules over and over and over again with no lessons ever learned by anyone (lessons like “never trust something that talks until you know where it keeps its brains” and “own root on computing machines you rely on or personally trust the humans who do own root on such machines”).
However, all the black mirror episodes that were essentially “a good love story in an alternate world” did not bother me in the same way :-)
That’s an interesting reading! Thanks for sharing it. Spoilers for a Black Mirror episode, in ROT13: Vg erzvaqf zr bs gur Oynpx Zveebe rcvfbqr, Unat gur QW, nobhg gur fvzhyngvba qngvat ncc.
I personally prefer the reading where the protagonist is a human in a different universe where AI is a little more advanced than now, because I like the feeling of him being corrupted in a way that’s world-dooming but beautiful-to-him at the same time.
Yeah! <3
At one point I assigned myself the homework of watching all of black mirror so as to understand “what cultural associations would be applied to what ideas by default”…
...and most of the episodes had me suppressing anger at the writers for just writing characters who violate the same set of very basic rules over and over and over again with no lessons ever learned by anyone (lessons like “never trust something that talks until you know where it keeps its brains” and “own root on computing machines you rely on or personally trust the humans who do own root on such machines”).
However, all the black mirror episodes that were essentially “a good love story in an alternate world” did not bother me in the same way :-)