• @Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    “i know the date it happens! on August 29th 1997, it’s gonna feel pretty FUCKING REAL TO YOU TOO! anybody not wearing two million sunblock’s gonna have a real bad day, get it?? god, you think you’re safe and alive, you’re already dead - him, you, you’re dead already! this whole place, everything you see is GONE! YOU’RE THE ONE LIVING IN A FUCKING DREAM, SILBERMAN! 'CAUSE I KNOW IT HAPPENS! IT HAPPENS!!”

    • IninewCrow
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      210 days ago

      We’re not changing the future or stopping it … we just delay it from inevitably happening

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        610 days ago

        That was a bullshit twist ending and if dragging out an aging Schwarzenegger to do some of the stiffest line-reads in his career hadn’t spoiled the franchise, I’d say this was what put it out to pasture.

        The thing that made the first two films (and the short-lived TV spin off) cool was this idea of a modern day insurgency against a dystopian future. As soon as you concede Judgement Day is irreversible, it sucks all the drama out of the story. Now you’ve just got What If Rambos Were Robots And They Were Fighting: The Movie, minus all that social baggage about Vietnam.

    • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      Scene: on the far wall of the room is a small intercom. It is connected to a hospital wide-AI, that is tasked to converse with patients, especially when the noise threshold exceeds 66Db. The intercom springs to life after hearing these very loud complaints, and begins to speak in a soothing, if not slightly robotic, voice.

      AI health assistant: Sarah, remember what we talked about? That was 30 years ago. Silberman died 15 years ago. Please stop disturbing the other patients and eat your pudding.

  • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    Living in 2025 has got me feeling like Sarah Connor about fucking everything. At this point, I’m pretty sure we’re just a few months out from the Faro plague, and when it breaks out, the Trump administration will ban government officials from talking about it by adding it to their list of banned DEI words.

  • Rodneyck
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    Went back in time and changed things repeatedly = explains Trump.

    • This raises an interesting question: if some time traveler really did tamper with things, what would the evidence look like? Is there anything that could have only happened with knowledge from a now defunct timeline?

      Then there’s the horror that it is actually happening and this is somebody’s idea of a repaired timeline.

      • @Nelots@lemm.ee
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        I don’t think there ever could be observable evidence of a changed timeline. Especially nothing stupid like Marty slowly fading out of existence in Back to the Future.

        But tbh, I’m not sure going into the past to change something is actually possible in most cases without creating some sort of time paradox. Interacting with the future shouldn’t cause any problems, but the past is probably set in stone. After all, if I went back in time to assassinate hitler, there is no reason for future me to go back in time to kill hitler since he was already killed, causing hitler to never get assassinated. And on and on it loops.

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          39 days ago

          Ignoring space for a moment, it depends whether you see time as a single - linear - dimension, or as a set of n dimensions.

          If time can only exist as a single dimension, then yes, we’d have a paradox.

          If time is two-(or more)-dimensional, then you’d just step into a parallel timeline/dimension for every change made, forsaking the old timeline Steins’ Gate-style.

          Obviously, 2+ dimensional time cannot be proven, so it’s just a fun thought experiment. It’s not entirely unlike the hypothetical 4th dimension of space - which would leave space-time with 4 dimensions of space and one of time.

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        If you take the interpretation of the Participatory Anthropic Universe (that we in the present brought the past into being through consensus observation/recollection), then you in the present will maybe have some loose memories associated to how the world used to be, but everyone else who still exists will have their memories overridden with the events you set in place. BackToTheFuture-style.

  • @Naevermix@lemmy.world
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    79 days ago

    The fearmongering is also a part of the AI hype. If AGI was anywhere close, do you really think the Microsoft and NVIDIA stock would be doing crab walk on the exchange?

  • AugustWest
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    69 days ago

    Robocop vs Terminator was a interesting comic. The premise being that Skynet interacted with RoboCop’s cyborg brain which is how it gained sentience and was able to bring about war. The fact it was a cops brain, well there you go.