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elidib

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I think the setup was there in the last episode. If Carol asks them for a scientific facility, experts with established research and procedures, and a tutorial on how to conduct experiments, the hive mind will be forced to comply and she'll start making sone kind of progress.
 
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Burns

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Chanur said:
I think it's probably red pilling a lot of people. My wife thinks she's insufferable but we give it a pass due to circumstances.
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She needs to be various levels of unlikeable to get people to sympathize more with how "great" the hive mind might be. Then they will slowly pull back the curtain, like TJT TJT says, and during that time she becomes more relatable to a wider audience.
 
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Attog

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elidib said:
I think the setup was there in the last episode. If Carol asks them for a scientific facility, experts with established research and procedures, and a tutorial on how to conduct experiments, the hive mind will be forced to comply and she'll start making sone kind of progress.
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I would think their self defense instinct would have to kick in at some point.
 
ShakyJake

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Yeah, I would think any threat to the collective would mean instant elimination.

I like the show so far, but wondering what the social commentary is. To me it seems like an allegory of AI and robotics.
 
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Xevy

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This could get real dark and have Carol start killing hive people until she forces them to either release, die, or kill her themselves.
 
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TJT

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ShakyJake said:
Yeah, I would think any threat to the collective would mean instant elimination.

I like the show so far, but wondering what the social commentary is. To me it seems like an allegory of AI and robotics.
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That's the thing. Us already did this. In the first episode it claims the Joining was done prematurely once human authorities became aware of its existence. Resulting in the death of 900M people. Its handwaved over but this would imply that they forcibly brought the remaining humans onboard once that happened.

So now you have the situation where Us knows that the immune humans cannot truly threaten it, or something, but Carol can damage it's collective function on her own. Even if it is temporary. There needs to be a good reason why Us is so invested in the happiness of the immune rather than just corralling them into reservations where they cannot interfere with it and whatever its doing.
 
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Chanur

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That's the thing. Us already did this. In the first episode it claims the Joining was done prematurely once human authorities became aware of its existence. Resulting in the death of 900M people. Its handwaved over but this would imply that they forcibly brought the remaining humans onboard once that happened.

So now you have the situation where Us knows that the immune humans cannot truly threaten it, or something, but Carol can damage it's collective function on her own. Even if it is temporary. There needs to be a good reason why Us is so invested in the happiness of the immune rather than just corralling them into reservations where they cannot interfere with it and whatever its doing.
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I'm not sure it's any more complex than the virus simply has a fundamental desire to spread.
 
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