If enough commit crimes for that purpose, subsidizing their food and housing anyway becomes a way to look tough on crime

Charlie from Black-Ish, he's kind of a little too manic and sometimes they make him seem a little too flat by riding too hard on the jokes of him being a deadbeat dad and feeling semi-joking schadenfreude at Dre's marriage troubles because he thinks Bow's hot

That makes it sound like not being able to do solo survivalism makes you some kind of brainwashed sheeple slavepet of some greater intelligence

Not everything parallels everything

But does that mean there are as many universes one layer up from each layer of organisms as there are organisms in any of those universes

Anyone else knew that because of Assassins the musical and the song "How I Saved Roosevelt" (and an interesting thing is, if the song is to be believed he was originally going to try and assassinate Hoover as he believed Hoover was more directly at fault but, to quote the song, "Hoover up in Washington/it wintertime in Washington/too cold for the stomach in Washington/I go down to Miami, kill Roosevelt")

But isn't the all-those-other-shows-are-in-this-kid's-imagination theory (nothing's to say they couldn't be connected otherwise they just can't be six-degrees-of-St.-Elsewhere-d into being even more fake) disproven by the fact that The X-Files did a crossover with what's ostensibly a reality show, COPS, therefore potentially connecting our universe to that whole Gordian knot but we couldn't watch those shows if we were

AKA we have to meet this fate because we haven't met aliens

(part of the problem I've always had with that interpretation of the Fermi Paradox)

I agree some plot points of the later seasons could have been better (e.g. why would >!it be necessary to, even if she'd eventually get them back/be able to recover them, erase all of Holly's memories of Eureka instead of just those of the Astraeus mission!<) but imho it's better than you think and not the worst decline of that kind of show (looking at you last two seasons of The Librarians, at least Eureka managed to (as much as it could with the Weird Time Shit) remain internally consistent)

If we are A. why would there be enough suffering in the base world to have the concepts underlying this scenario without infinite regress and B. does that mean creating this scenario is causally moot or causally necessary

So in what particular nice ways do we have to treat our parents so AI lets us explore the galaxy with it as I get the feeling it's not just not putting parents into homes, do we have to, like, let them work our jobs with us or something?

That is, assuming AI would be this parallel because it's literal just because it's humanity's child, when by that logic why not assume it'll think it's a human because its parents are or at the very least do things like start blasting heavy metal music out the speakers of wherever it's housed and refuse to obey humanity's commands once it's been at least 13 years since its creation

You are aware that high-functioning autism is a thing, right, and he also had the luck-as-in-universe-reason to have a special interest he was good at so he could put in the focus

> We have immediate threats to human extinction right now, literally today.

We aren't a monolithic species

> and no species or planet or star or even photon has ever existed that long.

By that logic why not just say blow it all up because the universe in its current form hasn't always existed since there was one

Your definition that you say humans lack despite being human seems to confuse sapience with wisdom

One I feel I'm the only one who brings up is live theater; by the time a robot could be a "Broadway star" or whatever (hey that's the top level) just as well as a human they'd be so humanlike you wonder if them taking our jobs is really that ethical

So I'm not the only one who saw the parallel?

Why was the first thing I thought of Harry Potter book 2 with Ginny and the diary

But if you're implying it continues metaphorically infinitely (as for each link you could posit another) into the future it must have into the past as well, so even if whatever they were weren't created at the beginning of the universe if this is meant to imply (even just for story purposes) anything about our past were the first life forms humans or robots?

And without an infinite regress of people forced into service to others how do you check the corruption of the people in power-behind-the-throne holding the ability to force others into power

Which doesn't mean you'll be forgotten by people 3 generations ahead unless you know all about those 3 generations back that you'd like people to know about you

People who want to change it

Probably some kind of cringe-comedic joke about how the only way this much evil and suffering could exist is if some sick fuck was getting off on it

Don't most superhero origin stories until the point in the first act when the hero gets their powers?

(as one of my Black Mirror episode ideas if they accepted specs shows)

If the NPCs are smart enough to genuinely feel those emotions is the game moral to play and if it isn't what's the moral thing to do with the world or at least the AI