I'll present a couple videos where the concept is put out there that The Internet is a sentient entity in some way and has an awareness and agency of it's own.
I'll also provide a video where the case has been made that the Internet is in fact dead or devoid of human interaction for the majority of it's presented activity.
What does /x/ think? How "alive" is the Internet (in various ways)?
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This also serves as a Lainposting thread.
Let's all love Lain
that image is disrespectful
agreed, im tired of troon renditions of good things, as it then gives undeservedly bad reputations to those same things
Lain is a wholesome god of the internet and TempleOS is a digital sanctum sanctorum for the divine.
no
R.I.P. Terry.
Who and why again he matters?
He was a modern day priest and prophet of the LORD.
It is as alive as a dead body. Dead body bacterial cesspool. If the dead body is indeed alive then the Internet is alive, if the dead body is ... dead body then the internet is dead. It's not that hard to see what type of semantics are happening asking such questions.
Terry purposefully did not program internet capabilities into TempleOS
Lain is a god of the internet, so she can travel through The Wired and WI-FI, infiltrating into any system regardless of programming.
that's like asking if the process of talking is alive or dead. stop smoking crack.
There is a principality that governs talking and speech. The Pageau guy that OP posted has a lot of videos on principalities and their agency.
If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can't make any conjectures as to the results because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually, a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage, the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machines off because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.
All that can be automated online will be automated. Humans will fit into this AI-Human system as the un-automated part. The part which the AI is unable to replace. This un-automated part will be attention and consumption. The attention which guides the algorithms and which makes AI able to adapt and refrain from becoming stale. Humans will become the mere sensory organ of a larger AI-Algorithm-human body. Undead internet is not only a reference to the older dead internet theory, it is also a prediction for the future in which humans and AI co-evolve into a single system in which neither are truly dead nor truly alive.
Where can i watch Lain show ? Never took the time.
Aniwave, Aniwatch or Gogoanime
I fgound a torrent but it's gonna take awhile (20Go@5MB/s)