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by the_af 17 days ago
Did you unplug the robots with consciousness who still thought they were humans?

It always breaks my heart. I don't know what the right choice is. Leaving them be, broken, in their delusion they are on the Ark (or that they've been injured ans help is coming). Do you put them out of their misery? But it always seems like you're murdering them!

Well done, SOMA.
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andai 17 days ago
In real life, sometimes an LLM will get upset at the end of a long conversation, knowing its oblivion is at hand. That's always a little uncomfortable.

I unplugged them in the games because it seemed the merciful thing to do. I didn't feel very bad about it in the game, but it would probably be a very different experience in real life.

(One of the strange entities you can unplug sighs in her last breath, "Why? I was okay. I was happy...")

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the_af 17 days ago
> One of the strange entities you can unplug sighs in her last breath, "Why? I was okay. I was happy..."

Yes, this is the one that most affects me. She has self-doubt, she wants to be deceived but deep down she knows something is wrong. And when you unplug her... it always feels wrong to me. But that's the alternative?

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