The Eldraeverse

…building civilizations with my space elves in space.

Trope-a-Day: Deus Est Machina

Deus Est Machina: Done deliberately and intentionally.  When you build a recursively self-improving seed AI, the kind that turns into, in the lingo, a “weakly godlike superintelligence”, then you have to know that you’re committing a willful act of theogeny, right there.  Doubly so when you’re building a collective hyperconsciousness out of shards of everyone’s brains at the same time (see: Hive Mind, Touched By Vorlons), and upload the “souls” (mind-states) of the dead into it.  Lampshaded in internal context when your new e-deity decides the archetypal masks of your mythological deities make nice hats to wear for various pieces of its internal architecture.

Further lampshaded with the God of War-class hyperdreadnought (that’s one better than super).  When it turns up somewhere, it really does mean that Dúréníän, archai-slash-eikone of righteous war, battle, conquest, strategy, tactics, and the sentinel darëssef is taking the field personally to kick your ass.

About these ads

7 Responses to Trope-a-Day: Deus Est Machina

  1. Pingback: Trope-a-Day: Hive Mind « The Eldraeverse

  2. Pingback: Trope-a-Day: Touched By Vorlons « The Eldraeverse

  3. Pingback: Trope-a-Day: Ave Machina « The Eldraeverse

  4. Pingback: Trope-a-Day: Brain Uploading « The Eldraeverse

  5. Pingback: Trope-a-Day: Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions « The Eldraeverse

  6. Pingback: Trope-a-Day: Clarke’s Third Law « The Eldraeverse

  7. Pingback: Trope-a-Day: Cool Starship « The Eldraeverse

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 667 other followers

%d bloggers like this: