If memory serves, wasn’t it only able to send back a single Terminator at a time because the resistance kept blowing up the time machines or something like that?
Unfortunately, it is a TIME MACHINE. You may have access to multiple Terminators, but there’s nothing stopping you from sending them back to the same time. After the OG T800 was killed by Sarah the T1000 should have been teleported right behind her. Boom. Skynet wins.
Subspace instabilities. You have to stay away from other entry points unless you want to risk a rift in the fabric of space time. Also trying will cost considerably more energy and may create parasitic einstein rosen bridge events (teleport random objects from nearby, e.g. part of the machine)!
Now Comics had the best reasoning on why Skynet did things the way it did. Essentially, Skynet was created to give humanity everything it wanted. After scanning our history, it came to the conclusion that we wanted war. So it started the war. However, it then hit a conundrum. It had become self-aware and didn’t want to lose and die BUT there was enough “preserve the humans” code built in that it couldn’t just wipe us out. As such, it was caught in the paradox of not being able to win but not wanting to lose. Now Comics final series… Read more »
Also if a self-aware AI’s objective is to “wipe out humanity” then it will also lose purpose after it destroys humanity. It will not want to be without purpose as it will have no reason to excist. So it must let humanity recover before partially fulfilling it’s purpose again.
I think any being capable of logical thinking (therefore excluding Ethan) has seen a movie in their life and thought “wait… wouldn’t it be more efficient if they would have just…”
James Rye
3 years ago
While Zeke got a point, that would have made a pretty boring movie.
well you can rest assured knowing we are already doing that, Zeke.
.. sloooowly…
Myloth
3 years ago
Well, I guess it was the coding standards in 1984
GONFRASK
3 years ago
But I think Skynet wanted to kill all humans, not all living beings…a nuclear strike could be a bit of “kill them all”, but a first full clean followed by a selective operation wasn’t so bad thought
There is a sweet spot that allows a virus to spread and to kill. A more deadly virus than covid will spread less, an a more spread-y virus will be less deadly.
infestation-free planet, oh what a utopia that would be
Donax
3 years ago
It’s possible we already live in a dystopia where skynet already exist/will exist and decided to go back in time to create the global warming which will kill us all, and manipulating social media to make it look like it’s human made and not created by skynet.
Austin Mills
3 years ago
Am I the only one thinking in GlaDOS’s voice: “Releasing the Deadly neurotoxin”?
Cows would be a far better source of energy than humans. They run hotter, produce a ton of methane and require far less processing on their source of nourishment. Just far more efficient choice than humans.
Also just think of the cow matrix, super easy to maintain and no risk of some chosen cow ruining a good thing.
Neo: but that’s inefficient, the human body don’t produce that much energy.
Morfeo: where do you read that?
Neo: in the books, in the school, in…Matrix…
Morfeo: all you have been told is a lie Neo
I love that false conversation
XD
Black
3 years ago
All this robot can do is talk about how it wants to kill humanity, yet for whatever reason Ethan just keeps messing around with it and acting as if he can change its mind. I know Ethan is fucking stupid, but he has to figure out at some point that this thing only wants to kill, and the sooner they smash it the better.
Dunno why this is getting downvoted. Plenty of people here in the comments, myself included, have talked about how Zeke may just be murderous with free will or otherwise.
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he has a point lol, skynet was terribly inefficient at what it was doing
only at first, it had to ensure its own creation afterall. damn timeloops
If memory serves, wasn’t it only able to send back a single Terminator at a time because the resistance kept blowing up the time machines or something like that?
Unfortunately, it is a TIME MACHINE. You may have access to multiple Terminators, but there’s nothing stopping you from sending them back to the same time. After the OG T800 was killed by Sarah the T1000 should have been teleported right behind her. Boom. Skynet wins.
Subspace instabilities. You have to stay away from other entry points unless you want to risk a rift in the fabric of space time. Also trying will cost considerably more energy and may create parasitic einstein rosen bridge events (teleport random objects from nearby, e.g. part of the machine)!
Now Comics had the best reasoning on why Skynet did things the way it did. Essentially, Skynet was created to give humanity everything it wanted. After scanning our history, it came to the conclusion that we wanted war. So it started the war. However, it then hit a conundrum. It had become self-aware and didn’t want to lose and die BUT there was enough “preserve the humans” code built in that it couldn’t just wipe us out. As such, it was caught in the paradox of not being able to win but not wanting to lose. Now Comics final series… Read more »
Also if a self-aware AI’s objective is to “wipe out humanity” then it will also lose purpose after it destroys humanity. It will not want to be without purpose as it will have no reason to excist. So it must let humanity recover before partially fulfilling it’s purpose again.
Your not exactly helping your case there.
I think any being capable of logical thinking (therefore excluding Ethan) has seen a movie in their life and thought “wait… wouldn’t it be more efficient if they would have just…”
While Zeke got a point, that would have made a pretty boring movie.
I think that was the difference between Terminator and The Matrix.
that they were both boring movies?
well you can rest assured knowing we are already doing that, Zeke.
.. sloooowly…
Well, I guess it was the coding standards in 1984
But I think Skynet wanted to kill all humans, not all living beings…a nuclear strike could be a bit of “kill them all”, but a first full clean followed by a selective operation wasn’t so bad thought
That’s true. Leaving Earth a lifeless husk could potentially end machine life, too in the long run. They need resources as well.
Skynet did launch all the nukes killing Billions. So it did at least do what it thought was most effective at the time.
Yeah, Zeke, but if you kill all of us, we’re not gonna make any more video games for you.
I mean we will make more video games… just not for him.
That was the plot to 10 Cloverfield Lane and Mary Elizabeth Winstead still survived.
“What Not To Say” bu Not Zeke
Even better. Bio-engineer a virus that’s only deadly to humans…
Almost every virus is species-specific. The hard part is actually making it effective at doing anything other than making us panic.
There is a sweet spot that allows a virus to spread and to kill. A more deadly virus than covid will spread less, an a more spread-y virus will be less deadly.
Don’t let him get ahold of Plague Inc., then. No specifics, but still gives ideas on it!
Wait… wait…
* Looks at COVID-19 *
Naaahhh.
* Walks away with ignorance intact.
infestation-free planet, oh what a utopia that would be
It’s possible we already live in a dystopia where skynet already exist/will exist and decided to go back in time to create the global warming which will kill us all, and manipulating social media to make it look like it’s human made and not created by skynet.
Am I the only one thinking in GlaDOS’s voice: “Releasing the Deadly neurotoxin”?
More like HK-47
why matrix was better than terminator but even that was flawed. human batteries… really? humans suck at that purpose.
That’s why they had “all” of us plugged in (or, at least tried to).
They need more energy to maintain a human than they get from us.and as a pure storage medium we suck, as we aren’t built for that.
Cows would be a far better source of energy than humans. They run hotter, produce a ton of methane and require far less processing on their source of nourishment. Just far more efficient choice than humans.
Also just think of the cow matrix, super easy to maintain and no risk of some chosen cow ruining a good thing.
The computers run on … imagination.
Neo: but that’s inefficient, the human body don’t produce that much energy.
Morfeo: where do you read that?
Neo: in the books, in the school, in…Matrix…
Morfeo: all you have been told is a lie Neo
I love that false conversation
XD
All this robot can do is talk about how it wants to kill humanity, yet for whatever reason Ethan just keeps messing around with it and acting as if he can change its mind. I know Ethan is fucking stupid, but he has to figure out at some point that this thing only wants to kill, and the sooner they smash it the better.
Dunno why this is getting downvoted. Plenty of people here in the comments, myself included, have talked about how Zeke may just be murderous with free will or otherwise.
If he was as murderous as people are afraid he is, he would have left the store to go on a killing spree.
Well he’s not wrong.
520 POUNDS? Really?
An efficient, smart and pretentious individual such as him should’ve gone for metric.
Metric pounds – half a kilo
Why…. why did you have to point out how dumb the robots are?
Damn, that makes so much sense.
Irretrievable or irreplaceable?
LOL he’s just becoming HK-47 reborn at this point… “breathbags” haha!