[satvikpendem]

You're right, not necessarily AI, more so what an omniscient and omnipotent device could do especially in the wrong hands.

[observationist]

What's the difference between the idle imaginings of a god's mind and a universe scale simulation?

I always got advanced AI vibes from Devs, that it was a mind interfacing with reality in some sort of weird inception / simulation / manifestation way.

[satvikpendem]

In the show the device is not autonomous, humans use it.

[observationist]

That can be a type of mind, though? It can also be a type of interface - a tap into a system not fully understood, controlling the perspective or view but not the process. The whole "mind of god" Deus/Devs, etc - I think it's left ambiguous on purpose for the hook but I always took it to be an AI flavored story at the core.

[satvikpendem]

Maybe. The plot itself is based on a short story that Garland read, both the 2007 original [0] and its 2022 rewrite [1]. Qntm is great and their latest book, There Is No Antimemetics Division, recently was on HN as well [2].

[0] https://qntm.org/responsibility

[1] https://qntm.org/responsibilit

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660853

[observationist]

qntm has a wonderfully strange mind.

[hackable_sand]

"in the wrong hands"

that's fucking funny