I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | Patreon Short
In this patreon exclusive Dk and Kirioth discuss the post-apocalyptic short story by Harlan Ellison.
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To answer DK's inquiry as to why AM kept 5 humans alive just to torture them: Because he can't do anything else. If he kills all the humans he has nothing left to do but sit in his own private hell. So he decided to leave a handful alive to torture them to distract himself from his own suffering.
Can we get an all tomorrows episode or patron short?? I think it fits quite well!
“Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.”
You ever just read old stories like this and think "Wow, we are dangerously close to that." Because that's how I feel right now.
One of my personal favorite stories. In my opinion, AM is one of the best AI villains in fiction because he is not like the rest. Other AI villains use cold logic to justify themselves, but he does no care for that. He just HATES humanity and that is what makes him so memorable.
Man we need an episode on Metamorphosis of Prime Intelect now
Absolutely loved the episode! I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is a classic!
