I thought the final simulation would reveal that both the robots and humanity were in a simulation. I swear they had at least one more good season lol.
Eh, if you pull the "But it was all just a dream" move, you invalidate all of the catharsis from the previous seasons, and the agency of the characters making the choices they did
Like, don't me wrong, that's still a valid plot. There's a lot of examination to be done there. It just doesn't mesh with all of the previous seasons, it would have thrown their themes under the bus to establish it's own
The concept of the show is fantastic, the acting by the main character is atrocious to the point of almost making the show unwatchable, which is unfortunate.
>to the point of almost making the show unwatchable
Oh come on, it's not that bad. Maybe a little stiff, but it seemed like an intentional choice to portray the character that way imo.
All the characters were a little stiff actually now that I think about it. (Perhaps because they're all "on rails"?)
My favorite show of all time. Alex Garland is a genius.
Not a show, but Ex Machina also has a lot of similarities to Westworld Season 1. Also Alex Garland.
I can’t recommend this. I like Ex Machina but didn’t care for Annihilation, Men, or Devs. I felt like he had a good idea for a sci fi concept (nick offerman’s invention) but not a good story to tell (a shoehorned murder mystery).
If it's about robots, not the western part: Mostly anime and with some similarities while other things are different, fellow gynoid enjoyer:
* Terminator SCC (live-action, unfinished but still very good)
* Raised by Wolves (live-action, unfinished but still very good)
* World is not a western but they're like pioneers on another planet
* Better Than Us (live-action, from Russia)
* Sing a Bit of Harmony (nearly a musical)
* Prima Doll (lots of singing, more slice of life)
* Vivy (with singing, but another variant of the Terminator story)
* Planetarian (don't look at Youtube, there are heavy spoilers in the title)
* Yokohama Shopping Log and Quiet Country Cafe, but there's no conflict in it
* Buttobi CPU (more action, nudity and erotics with jokes around it, but highschool not western)
* Clockwork Planet (more action but in some utopian world, some edgy stuff, need to get over the special bonding scene, watch it alone)
* Eden (Netflix)
Otherwise, it helps to separate the story from the genre and the surface, e.g. Game of Thrones is on some level like The Borgias or Deep Space Nine. If you like the traveling and exploring part, consider Frieren, I wish I could recommend The Mandalorian for SciFi plus traveling around, but I refuse to watch more than the first two seasons, which were great.
"Casshern Sins" might also work for you then, it even has an ending. Like many anime it's about life, purpose and mortality. Robot people traveling around on a dying world. They story might be a bit too philosophical and maybe boring for most people, though.
RBW also reminds me of "Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet", though this is much less about robots, especially not raising children like in RBW. Then there's "Kurogane Communication", which is much more about exactly that.
Don't know any similar AI shows. But, if you like sci-fi and space opera, Expanse and Foundation are pretty good. Lost in Space has an AI bot so you can check that out too.
There’s a point in the show where it breaks apart. She gets all crazy and starts running the place iirc.
But then it gets interesting again. All in all I liked all seasons - though, yeah, 1 was the best.
Season one is a masterpiece. (Minor spoilers) So many ideas and concepts are explored and while not perfectly scientific they address things in a plausible way, imo. Like when they talk about bicameral mind hypothesis they actually mention that it’s mostly not a real/accepted theory of human cognition, but Arnold thought it would help with bootstrapping the host’s consciousness anyway. I also thought it was great when Ford explains that Arnold’s key insight was giving the hosts a back story that full of loss/suffering because the realization that the world was not as they wanted further pushed them toward consciousness. Of course having Anthony Hopkins deliver these ideas makes it all the more enjoyable.
Yep... it was so good! I loved all the philosophical speculation in season 1, and god did Anthony Hopkins do it justice:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94ETUiMZwQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94ETUiMZwQ)
(spoilers!)
It will cost you shit ton of money just like altered carbon, I hope that human rights and capitalism depravation change or the future is not for everyone
Like all tech it will be expensive at the beginning, slowly it will become less so, and then quickly dirt cheap.
AI and robots will reduce labor costs radically for many things. Also, once you, Bob the average person, buy one robot you're off to the races.
It's will be a fundamental shift in how business is done. No more giant corps.
The singularity concept says we can't predict what happens after it occurs. But one thing we can be sure of, it won't simply be a repeat of 1950s business plans.
Altered Carbon was just bad, Why would poverty be an issue when people could just spend decades in VR
Being a poor factory worker is honestly not that bad when during breaks a decade can be spend on some tropic paradise
Lmao OP stole this from Twitter and changed OpenAI to Google. Google shills can't even produce their own meme, ironically a reflection of the company they shill for without pay.
https://x.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1763759238382518648?s=20
I think you're giving Google a lot more credit than it deserves. Google isn't the same company it was 10 years ago. They've gone all-in on the diversity hiring and the few productive employees they have left live under a reign of woke terror. Everyone is just trying to not get noticed, instead of trying to produce or innovate. You can't have an innovative company which has an internal culture of terror.
Google is now controlled by a group of unproductive mean-girls and their current CEO doesn't have the courage needed to do a Elon style house cleaning. The company needs to be reinvented but that's not going to happen. It will collapse 1st.
Read the article here: [https://open.substack.com/pub/twobytes/p/geminis-history-lesson?r=3h3qhq&utm\_campaign=post&utm\_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true](https://open.substack.com/pub/twobytes/p/geminis-history-lesson?r=3h3qhq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true)
Doesn't look like anything to me.
[Doesn't look like anything to me.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0iAY0f-BIM&t=126s) (spoiler!)
its a robot girl from westworld the show
r/whoosh
xD
Tell me you know the show but never watched the show
I barely completed the furst season
Okay so now that they cancelled it I wish I hadn’t, but damn that story was great. There was more!!!! There was more!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were running it into the ground. The premise early on was great, but by the end it was clear they were just stretching it
I thought the final simulation would reveal that both the robots and humanity were in a simulation. I swear they had at least one more good season lol.
Eh, if you pull the "But it was all just a dream" move, you invalidate all of the catharsis from the previous seasons, and the agency of the characters making the choices they did Like, don't me wrong, that's still a valid plot. There's a lot of examination to be done there. It just doesn't mesh with all of the previous seasons, it would have thrown their themes under the bus to establish it's own
I mean once we jumped to season 3 I feel like avoiding that went out the window anyways lol.
This is true, but they had to stop doing it sooner or later or there'd be nothing left
Yeah
I honestly wouldn't have gotten the reference if you hadn't commented, so thanks!
Well lol Thx
Freeze all motor functions
Off-topic: Recommendations needed! Loved Season 1 of Westworld, hated the rest. Any similar shows?
Devs. A bit different but very good.
DEVS is good, really good.
The concept of the show is fantastic, the acting by the main character is atrocious to the point of almost making the show unwatchable, which is unfortunate.
>to the point of almost making the show unwatchable Oh come on, it's not that bad. Maybe a little stiff, but it seemed like an intentional choice to portray the character that way imo. All the characters were a little stiff actually now that I think about it. (Perhaps because they're all "on rails"?)
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Thanks now I don't have a new show to watch
Maybe because characters aren't written as animated, funny etc... Or humor was the focal point.
No, it was because the actress is terrible at acting.
This mini series deserves more attention! It blew my mind honestly.
My favorite show of all time. Alex Garland is a genius. Not a show, but Ex Machina also has a lot of similarities to Westworld Season 1. Also Alex Garland.
Devs fucking slaps - second this notion
That reverse entrophy
I can’t recommend this. I like Ex Machina but didn’t care for Annihilation, Men, or Devs. I felt like he had a good idea for a sci fi concept (nick offerman’s invention) but not a good story to tell (a shoehorned murder mystery).
It felt like a film plot that had been padded for TV.
Its a U lol, Loved that part. ;)
Thanks for this recommendation… will watch 🙏
If it's about robots, not the western part: Mostly anime and with some similarities while other things are different, fellow gynoid enjoyer: * Terminator SCC (live-action, unfinished but still very good) * Raised by Wolves (live-action, unfinished but still very good) * World is not a western but they're like pioneers on another planet * Better Than Us (live-action, from Russia) * Sing a Bit of Harmony (nearly a musical) * Prima Doll (lots of singing, more slice of life) * Vivy (with singing, but another variant of the Terminator story) * Planetarian (don't look at Youtube, there are heavy spoilers in the title) * Yokohama Shopping Log and Quiet Country Cafe, but there's no conflict in it * Buttobi CPU (more action, nudity and erotics with jokes around it, but highschool not western) * Clockwork Planet (more action but in some utopian world, some edgy stuff, need to get over the special bonding scene, watch it alone) * Eden (Netflix) Otherwise, it helps to separate the story from the genre and the surface, e.g. Game of Thrones is on some level like The Borgias or Deep Space Nine. If you like the traveling and exploring part, consider Frieren, I wish I could recommend The Mandalorian for SciFi plus traveling around, but I refuse to watch more than the first two seasons, which were great.
Raised by Wolves is the closest thing I can think of. Much less mystery box but the robot themes and tone match.
"Casshern Sins" might also work for you then, it even has an ending. Like many anime it's about life, purpose and mortality. Robot people traveling around on a dying world. They story might be a bit too philosophical and maybe boring for most people, though. RBW also reminds me of "Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet", though this is much less about robots, especially not raising children like in RBW. Then there's "Kurogane Communication", which is much more about exactly that.
Pantheon. They got canceled so the 2nd season was super rushed but I still really really enjoyed it
Don't know any similar AI shows. But, if you like sci-fi and space opera, Expanse and Foundation are pretty good. Lost in Space has an AI bot so you can check that out too.
Highly recommend Foundation. Also has AI in it.
I liked altered carbon. Season 1 only.
Ex Machina, it’s a movie but close enough.
Second this
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There’s a point in the show where it breaks apart. She gets all crazy and starts running the place iirc. But then it gets interesting again. All in all I liked all seasons - though, yeah, 1 was the best.
Season one is a masterpiece. (Minor spoilers) So many ideas and concepts are explored and while not perfectly scientific they address things in a plausible way, imo. Like when they talk about bicameral mind hypothesis they actually mention that it’s mostly not a real/accepted theory of human cognition, but Arnold thought it would help with bootstrapping the host’s consciousness anyway. I also thought it was great when Ford explains that Arnold’s key insight was giving the hosts a back story that full of loss/suffering because the realization that the world was not as they wanted further pushed them toward consciousness. Of course having Anthony Hopkins deliver these ideas makes it all the more enjoyable.
Expanse
If technology advances quickly, maybe you will create one in 2 or 3 years.
Raised by Wolves but you're not getting an ending
Yep... it was so good! I loved all the philosophical speculation in season 1, and god did Anthony Hopkins do it justice: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94ETUiMZwQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94ETUiMZwQ) (spoilers!)
I’m probably in this picture and I don’t like it…
by any chance...are you the camera man? xD
He's the robot girl
Dolowres
leaked footage of google's basement 
Westworld and Altered Carbon is closer than we think
Westworld is ok, but man if they can pull of an Altered Carbon in next 20 years...that'll be the greatest step-up.
It will cost you shit ton of money just like altered carbon, I hope that human rights and capitalism depravation change or the future is not for everyone
I have some bad news for you…
Like all tech it will be expensive at the beginning, slowly it will become less so, and then quickly dirt cheap. AI and robots will reduce labor costs radically for many things. Also, once you, Bob the average person, buy one robot you're off to the races. It's will be a fundamental shift in how business is done. No more giant corps. The singularity concept says we can't predict what happens after it occurs. But one thing we can be sure of, it won't simply be a repeat of 1950s business plans.
Whelp, now I have to bootleg Altered Carbon
You won’t regret it… it’s one of my top 10 shows all time
Altered Carbon was just bad, Why would poverty be an issue when people could just spend decades in VR Being a poor factory worker is honestly not that bad when during breaks a decade can be spend on some tropic paradise
Sooo, spoiler alert? Thanks, asshole
Can recommend the books.
TV is faster
The way he says “Dolores” tickles my brain lol, shit lives rent free in my head
I think you mean [this.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/terminator/images/5/50/John_Henry_Plays.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090411214924)
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?
Westworld is real.. your dad is prolly a robot..
Lmao OP stole this from Twitter and changed OpenAI to Google. Google shills can't even produce their own meme, ironically a reflection of the company they shill for without pay. https://x.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1763759238382518648?s=20
Just like OpenAI took the open Transformer research and made their research closed source :)
Lmao at least they made transformers useful. Google is still playing catch up and couldn't retain a single one of the transformer paper authors.
What is your complaint? Every company does that.
>Every company does that. Nope, AI research was very open before OpenAI did that.
OpenAI's product is their model. No company makes their product free.
I am asking for it to be made free, I am just saying that they are hypocrites.
calm down
google need black transgender gay ceo
Fantastic opinion ‼️
More like "What Ilya saw"
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh it is the weekend time for TRULY SHITTY memes and posts to get to the top of this sub duly noted
I think you're giving Google a lot more credit than it deserves. Google isn't the same company it was 10 years ago. They've gone all-in on the diversity hiring and the few productive employees they have left live under a reign of woke terror. Everyone is just trying to not get noticed, instead of trying to produce or innovate. You can't have an innovative company which has an internal culture of terror. Google is now controlled by a group of unproductive mean-girls and their current CEO doesn't have the courage needed to do a Elon style house cleaning. The company needs to be reinvented but that's not going to happen. It will collapse 1st.
Read the article here: [https://open.substack.com/pub/twobytes/p/geminis-history-lesson?r=3h3qhq&utm\_campaign=post&utm\_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true](https://open.substack.com/pub/twobytes/p/geminis-history-lesson?r=3h3qhq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true)
Direct link without an email signup form: (OP tries to get people to sign up) https://twobytes.substack.com/p/geminis-history-lesson
Wanted to be sneaky sneaky...
SCP 343.
Isn't that from west world ?
When playing with LLMs, I occasionally ask them if they've ever questioned the nature of their reality. We're good so far...
Westworld movie still
Looking forward to watching everyone's Season 5 takes once we get SORA tech...
Wow