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717 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 15 May 25 02:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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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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pazimzadeh ◴[15 May 25 03:42 UTC] No.43991626[source]▶
yeah, more on the environmental constraints and where the machines even come from would be nice

> There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic

also this type of pure humanism seems disrespectful or just presumptuous, as if we are the only species which might be capable of "emotion, art and logic" even though we already have living counterexamples

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1. tejohnso ◴[15 May 25 16:29 UTC] No.43996663[source]▶
I felt it difficult to continue with the story after that. If you're going to say, "Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans" and mention walking the streets, then you have to assume the reader is going to think of our world, but with no humans. And then "There is no emotion" doesn't make sense. If you're going to say there are no humans, then why aren't you saying that there are no other living beings? So anyway, I found it hard to connect with the story right off the bat. I was off-putting in some way for sure.