Still only a few episodes in but besides the group think aspect in some ways it felt like A.I to me. A whole lot of collective knowledge, and also always trying to please the immune characters. Even sometimes giving them dangerous things or information just to please them.
It also reminded me of the Rick and Morty episode where everyone on the planet is the same person. 😂
I'll have to watch that Rick and Morty episode. It feels relevant. :) Agreed that "The Others" do come across like a global scale LLM, especially considering a thing I read early on about Vince's feelings about AI.
A reader shared with me a different reading of the Pluribus scene: "Throughout the program the collective consistently express their love of the 13 survivors, and this is manifested in what appears to be genuine compassion, care and an imperative to meet the survivors’ needs and desires (until it becomes incompatible with their own survival, at which point they abandon the main character). When I watched the episode you referred to, I found myself wondering why they were bothering to maintain the remote Amazonian community and rituals when is was so clearly inefficient to do so, until I realised it was to provide familiar comforts to the girl. I don’t think it was a cynical facade as you’ve suggested, I think it was out of a sincere intention to meet her desires which then became unnecessary when her desires changed.
I’m not sure they are emotionally detached either: there is a scene where the main character discusses with her ‘chaperone’ how they do feel emotions on an individual level. Going back to the Amazonian scene, if it really was a charade then there would be no reason for them to carry on acting happy once the girl transforms, and yet they do continue smiling as they go about their business."
Still only a few episodes in but besides the group think aspect in some ways it felt like A.I to me. A whole lot of collective knowledge, and also always trying to please the immune characters. Even sometimes giving them dangerous things or information just to please them.
It also reminded me of the Rick and Morty episode where everyone on the planet is the same person. 😂
I'll have to watch that Rick and Morty episode. It feels relevant. :) Agreed that "The Others" do come across like a global scale LLM, especially considering a thing I read early on about Vince's feelings about AI.
A reader shared with me a different reading of the Pluribus scene: "Throughout the program the collective consistently express their love of the 13 survivors, and this is manifested in what appears to be genuine compassion, care and an imperative to meet the survivors’ needs and desires (until it becomes incompatible with their own survival, at which point they abandon the main character). When I watched the episode you referred to, I found myself wondering why they were bothering to maintain the remote Amazonian community and rituals when is was so clearly inefficient to do so, until I realised it was to provide familiar comforts to the girl. I don’t think it was a cynical facade as you’ve suggested, I think it was out of a sincere intention to meet her desires which then became unnecessary when her desires changed.
I’m not sure they are emotionally detached either: there is a scene where the main character discusses with her ‘chaperone’ how they do feel emotions on an individual level. Going back to the Amazonian scene, if it really was a charade then there would be no reason for them to carry on acting happy once the girl transforms, and yet they do continue smiling as they go about their business."