Person of Interest
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
Go here to check out his podcast thread for info on topics and links!Go into the FoH discord and find the Happy Time Fun Hour channel and give it a listen!
Yeah. That episode was off the charts :O worthy, particularly:
"I chose a voice."
It really makes the season premiere's intro monologue that much more ominous, now. Also:
Any bets on the Machine calling herself Grace?
DoctorSpooge_sl
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Watching this now. Season 1 was pretty rough - an utter chore, honestly - what with its villain of the week format that I've always found repellant. Season two was a lot better and got quite good as they wove Root (holyfuckshe's gorgeous) and the HR case into the plot. I zoned out a little too much, though, and don't really understand some of the shit that's going on, but as of the beginning of season 3 it has my attention.
Xexx
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Eh its not really a villain of a week type thing - the machine job is to dish irrelevant numbers thus every episode has its own course set by it - However there is shit going on beyond the mystery of the week. There are alot of cool tie ins and some characters they introduce that show up time and time again. I prefer this to blacklist and its silly naming scheme and thats saying a bit since Spader is the man no matter what hes in.
DoctorSpooge_sl
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In invoking the term 'villain' of the week, I didn't really mean for it to be interpreted literally. The spitting out of irrelevant numbers is a functional analog, though, in that it allows for episodic arcs that resolve themselves at the end of each episode, with a little bit of overarching plot thrown in. My point is that by the end of season 1 the major plot starts unfolding at a much faster pace, which is what ultimately endeared me to the show.
And yeah, some of the recurring characters are great - especially the crazy asian character played by that dude from Lost.
Season one is practically a different show loosely focused around a cop procedural show. Somewhere along mid season 2 and fully in 3 they go far more AI sci fi and let loose with every number/case tying into the grand scheme of things - either the writers all got changed or the network bosses were like "K you guys aren't being cancelled, go ahead be crazy".
Why has media and popular culture begun to use "ASI" instead of just "AI?"
Sad apples Poi is kabut. Good show
Sad apples Poi is kabut. Good show
kaid
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Because an AI is different than an artifical super intelligence. A normal AI is probably pretty heavily bound and while smart in its own way not capable of bootstrapping. An ASI is an AI thats bounds are slipping or have totally slipped and is already beginning to bootstrap itself. This is basically why they talk about two gods going to war with the machine and samaritan because pretty quickly that is what they effectively would be if left to keep self improving.