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exasperatedoctopus · 18 days ago

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Holo-technology is an ethical nightmare. Lemme just magic up a person with individual thoughts and feelings to entertain myself, and then shut them off at my leisure. I’m sure this will have no real-world ramifications for me ever in my life.

We’re out here with a whole holo-village that’s gained sentience, and this is like the fifth time something like this has happened.

#lemme see if I can name some Incidents off the top of my head #moriarty #the doctor from voyager #Vic the lounge singer #the titular village in this episode I’m watching that this sad man made to feel less lonely #that little Irish village that Tom Paris made #I’m sure there are others but I am drawing a blank #the line between sentience and cleverly made AI is alarmingly thin in the Star Trek ‘verse #on one hand: FUN and endless whimsy #on the other: endless paranoia that the program can mutate just wrong and try its hand at taking over the ship #an excellent plot point overall #very good for mora dilemmas and you know that’s the bread and butter of your average Star Trek episode #Star Trek #French trek #ds9 #Star Trek: the next generation #voyager #holodecks

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