It only gets worse when you realize that there were four different large wooden structures throwing off clouds of smoke just to his left and right as he was running. Being behind something that arrows can't go through? Being hard to see? Clearly not a priority for him.

It's totally unfair to call Jon a sexist pig for that reason! The show has made excruciatingly clear that he's an idiot. It probably didn't even occur to him that you could make plans in the first place until Davos and Tormund showed up and started dropping hints and then giving up dropping hints and just pointing…

I would believe him except that Kevin Sorbo is an awful person now so I prefer to believe the story that makes him look ridiculous.

The sad part about it is that right when I was about to completely give up and just watch something else the last twenty minutes or so are exactly what the movie should have been. So clearly they could have made it watchable. But… no.

Wait, why can't it be both?

That was like thirty years ago too, yeah. But pennies pretty much last forever, especially because they tend to spend decades sitting in glass jars on people's dressers while the Federal Mint grinds its teeth and makes new ones. So there are a lot of pure copper ones still floating around. (Check the next time you…

They couldn't use anything as obvious as that, though. Maybe some odd hardware feature that got passed on down as things evolved? Who knows.

I'm still holding out hope for a Neuromancer style ending here. We don't know exactly what ice-9 does, or even if it's still the ice-9 (or the exact same one) that Harold thinks is in that harddrive. And given that their plan involved breaking into Samaritan's secured facility and loading it directly into its…

That sounds like a good way to do it - I hope they do that at least because there were strong hints that his hacking of the ARPANET wasn't based on a small trick but something pretty fundamental to any computer network, which is part of why it was so serious.

My best guess would be that ice-9 is designed to either do something horrible to the internet as a whole - literally breaking what ASIs need to exist in the first place - or it's built to bury itself in the basic framework of it so that as soon as someone created a new ASI it would instantly get hit by ice-9. Neither…

That kind of tradeoff really does sound ambiguous at worst - it's not like the US doesn't kill a whole lot of people on a regular basis, and the world is set up in ways that lead to a lot of preventable deaths/suffering.

Well - not everybody. In that case they might as well shoot you because your death wouldn't affect anything. And they'd probably want to as well.

Making up some blatantly nonsense number from a silly spy novel rather than the reality we live in to justify mass surveillance projects* wouldn't be entirely out of character for an intelligence agency. By which I mean, mainly, that it's what the FBI/CIA have done for years (only to, occasionally, quietly have to…

Is it a standard/reliable part of his act to the point where sitting in the front couple rows probably makes it a good bet that it would happen in some comedic way? If so probably not. I mean, if I hurled watermelon pulp at people at a party or on the street or something that would be bad but people still go to…

This is true: the machine isn't just replicating Root's voice but also her mannerisms and an awful lot of her personality, at least in its interactions with Harold. That's a bit creepy.

This prevents it from saving lives from long-term, nonviolent threats such as famine, disease, global warming.

The machine could do that now. (It did start its own corporation and hire what looked like hundreds of people to type and retype its own data after all.)

I think it pretty literally would have to do that: even a strong social safety net would change the way people chose to live (massively). And the machine has already shown an interest in interfering far more strongly than that in people's lives (that's what sending out the numbers to specialized teams is doing, after…

Would be either worrying in its partiality, or easily distinguishable from a human one, because humans are kind of sketchy when it comes to that sort of thing…

The machine is a machine intelligence, not a human being for all that it interacts with characters in a human seeming way.