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l33tbro ◴[15 May 25 03:34 UTC] No.43991582[source]▶

Doesn't really make much sense. It states that this is a purely mechanistic world with no emotion. So why would a machine be "bored" and wish to create a human?

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disambiguation ◴[15 May 25 03:54 UTC] No.43991690[source]▶

>>43991582 #

My headcanon is that "boredom" and "fear" are probabilities in a Markov chain - since it's implied the machine society is not all-knowing, they must reconcile uncertainty somehow.

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l33tbro ◴[15 May 25 04:18 UTC] No.43991800[source]▶

>>43991690 #

How would a machine know that it doesn't know?

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1. lukas099 ◴[15 May 25 07:17 UTC] No.43992611[source]▶

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Experience of encountering things that were previously unknown unknowns would teach it of the general existence of such things.

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