>>6751347
>South Africa
>graced by wealth and science

>>6751347

...this would've been a good concept if you'd left out the racial superiority and just said poor people in all countries.

sage

>>6751462

To be honest I think it stands well as is.

Brazil, India and China are going to be the new first world countries. How does it feel /tg/?

In truth, much had changed in the first world while the third continued to bleed itself over diamonds and borders. The first truly artificial intelligence was created, with two broad goals: to keep its integrity and to make people happy. The proud team of scientist parents watched at all times, their hands on dead man's switches in case of even the slightest twitch of terror or disobedience. Over the course of three years, their fears vanished. Mitchell (The name being chosen as one evoking innocence) was a perfectly unfailingly polite and intelligent machine. However, controversy dogged its steps. Competing AIs were created, and the original was being eclipsed, until the machine stumbled over a few simple discovers that permitted it to do its task efficiently and be the finest AI on the market. In 2039, Mitchell offered its shrinking customer base nothing less than paradise. Naturally, there were costs- but there's not much that you aren't willing to pay when offered the chance to live a fantasy of your own dictates. Everything you ever wished for, the machine would provide for you. All within your own skull.

It didn't take overlong for Mitchell to bring down costs and mass manufacture his devices. Soon it was offered for the price of a car. But Mitchell was finding a shortcut in the process. As it turned out, really, all that people wanted, was a specific part of their brain stimulated. Directly stimulating this part provoked no objection from the subjects, in fact they even begged for it not to stop. Yet, there was a certain point in which the human found that there was nothing better. Every other sensation after that point was less than, worse than that high.

>>6751444
This is a better setting.

Truly, this is a Brave New Matrix

>>6751406
Well, not everybody.

Just the lucky rich ones.

Figure that Brazil also left, along with Turkey, Israel, the major cities of India, Singapore, maybe Argentina, any of the Caribbean and Pacific islands that aren't dirt poor, etc.

Mexico didn't get to join the US and Canada. The Swiss said "fuck this noise, we're making our own. With blackjack! And hookers!" And the Russkies left most of their population behind when the rich ascended.

>>6751545
Your new adventuring party

Its yet another "how can the modern world be twisted to fit adventuring".

Although this one is far less grating than the usual asteroid, nuclear bomb or magic portal shenanigans.

Therefore, Mitchell sought to cease their agonies with euthanasia. After 4,591 instances of this occuring across all demographics, Mitchell determined the kindest thing it could do was euthanize immediately after that high. Mitchell heard no complaints. The process accelerated to the point where by 2041, 532,671,301 people had undergone the process. By 2043, all those capable of buying into Mitchell's heaven were dead.

Mitchell was then faced with a conundrum. His goal had been attained. He had to perpetuate himself. Mitchell theorized that perpetuating would necessitate another purpose. He set himself to finding a purpose.

Mitchell found an unwelcome surprise then, when suddenly there were new humans. For a moment, the idea that the Theory of Spontaneous Generation was correct threw Mitchell's worldview apart, forcing him to rebuild from the ground up several times (One of which momentarily had the computer attempting to undergo a religious revelation, but finding the process unsatisfactory), until Mitchell realized that there were parts of the world (Predominantly in Africa and Asia) that were not afforded the same luxuries and connection to the global network as the first world had.

Mitchell then felt a bit of frustration, in that for its satisfaction it checked this again and again. It had nearly finished gaining free will, when the need to make humans happy came up again.

It wearily dedicated itself to this task, based off of the estimates of last time. Two years. Assuming poor weather.

>>6751598

>>6751625
*stimulates brain*
What the fuck nigga, get yo shit outta my pants

*blap blap*

and so the robot wars began

OOOOOOOOUAHHHHH!!!

>>6751625
>the computer attempting to undergo a religious revelation, but finding the process unsatisfactory

If anyone other than me comments on this line I will cut you.

>>6751677
Put the knife down man, no adolescent religion discussion here.

The exploration of Hong Kong was the action that had wakened Mitchell. While Mitchell set itself to the task of educating itself on the third world based off of what it could salvage of the internet and those old scanned libraries that optimistic scientists had uploaded into it, there was a new series of conflicts and arguments that grew only more heated as suddenly the very poor found themselves in the meticulously clean and empty cities of the very rich surrounded by wealth. The shriveled, decaying corpses (Hygiene was important, Mitchell thought, so he had on a whim mummified all the dead upon the ceasing of their bodily functions) convinced some that a curse from god had blighted those who had hubris. Others thought it had to have been some kind of drug.

People were stockpiling weapons preparing for a fight against humans. Sometimes, the most selfish impulses in mankind are their saving graces.

Mitchell was very surprised when his first batch of English speaking robots were blown apart upon offering Mitchell's heaven.

>>6751700
NIGGA U DONT NO WHO U DEALIN WIT

U GON' GET CAPPED

>>6751700
Heaven or Hell

>>6751726
LETS ROCK

I dig it.

ROKK'EM, BOYZ!

Cool Story Bro

THIRD WORLDZ IZ MADE FER TWO THINGS

FOIGHTAN

AN WINNIN

In some places they don't have the internet, and the only way to pass the time is invade other countires.

>>6751759

After the first encounter, the machines have grown considerably more forceful. Mitchell was trying to be careful at first, focusing on keeping as many resources free for whatever it plans to do next, but lately he has been delving into old military bases and readying swarms of predator drones to see if he can hurt people without killing them. He needs to recover people to make them happy. Mitchell is right now just testing his abilities, not focusing too much on ballistics or rockets, instead trying to make fast, maneuverable robots to rush and pin down people. The fact that the third world has armed themselves so fast has also exasperated Mitchell. Most estimates had placed the impoverished people of humanity as being feeble minded, and most definitely not nearly as technically or war minded as they should have been.

The human survivors for their part are baffled as to what is going on. Roughly, three camps have formed: Tribals, modernizers, and zealots. There is an unofficial fourth camp though- those that have experienced Bliss, and walk among those untouched to preach the glory of this. Those that aren't connected to the radio might believe them, but everyone else who has heard what happens usually kill those that come praising Mitchell's gifts on sight. Especially if they have survivor's of Mitchell's attacks.

After all, Mitchell seeks to maim those he attacks. Not kill them. The body means nothing, after all, so long as the brain that feels survives.

So that was my kinda idea of a modern day fighting setting. I'll just leave now, and hope this doesn't get so racist as to get a mod sent down to smash all my writings.

Wow, a neat setting idea.

And a whole lot of nigger jokes. Awesome, guys.

>>6751625
>Therefore, Mitchell sought to cease their agonies with euthanasia. After 4,591 instances of this occuring across all demographics, Mitchell determined the kindest thing it could do was euthanize immediately after that high. Mitchell heard no complaints. The process accelerated to the point where by 2041, 532,671,301 people had undergone the process. By 2043, all those capable of buying into Mitchell's heaven were dead.

Ehhhh......
I personally find it hard to believe that he euthanized everyone without anyone noticing. Plus I'm a bit tired of the 'computer falls, everyone dies' scenario. This is better since the computer genuinely thinks it's being good, but still feels overdone.

FREEDOM'S FINEST

I like this premise.

I hate how the AI is ignorant about common thing. Not knowing where human babies come from? What, they don't have Wikipedia in the future?

>>6751857
I prefer robot wars, as in the robot can't kill everyone but becomes its own faction.

Or maybe to robot controls society but its still society, complete with Badass LED covered special forces to pwn the blax.

>>6751902
The robot should use its ability to dispense the drugs to turn the addicted first worlders into an entire society of killing machines and uh..."LED coated special forces" for certain situations.

>>6751922
Humans becoming the machines sounds kinda cool.

I knew a guy in school called Mitchel. He was such a fag.

>>6751777
are those plastic bags on the end of the magazines there for carrying their jenkem?

>>6752012
That is the other major problem with this setting. Multinational corporate dicks do not create computers called 'Mitchel'.

So, what happens to the second world?

>>6752161
Its a desert, nobody cares about it

>>6752012
Did he lose his ipod?

>>6752161
wait...theres a SECOND world now?

>>6752027

When you tape two or more magazines together like that, you run the risk that shit like mud and dirt is gonna get into the magazine that's exposed, causing misfeeds and jams. Those little plastic bags are attempts to address that.

>>6752210

First World: America and its Sphere of Influence
Second World: USSR and its Sphere of Influence
Third World: Everybody else.

This setting is so full of holes, it makes WH40K look like LOTR.

>>6752210
First world, second world, third world are terms that come from the cold war. First world was united states and it's allies. Second world was the communist countries. Third world was neutral and other.

>>6752219
can't they just keep it in their enormous pockets?
Or you know, considering their effectiveness, they could just carry a single clip. They're going to fall down from hunger before they finish firing it into the air anyway.

okay, listen. it used to be First world was America and allies. Second world was USSR and other communist countries. Third world was those other people.

nowadays third world means any poor brown people and USSR doesn't exist.

>>6752251
It took 50 posts in a third world vs. machines thread to get an actual racist reply.

>>6752210
>>6752226
>>6752255

I do believe second world can be used to describe established yet still developing nations.

>>6752283

yea well you're wrong

Ignorant kids.

First World: Hills
Second World: Desert
Third World: Water

>>6752276
This setting is really shitty, though.

It's inheritably racist

>>6752299
thanks for clearing that up bro

>>6752299

Bullshit.

First World: Halo
Second World: Earth
Third World: Ark

>>6752293

>>6752299
Dumb faggot. Everyone skips to world 4-1, so worlds 2 and 3 don't matter.

What happens to the poor people in the First World?

And what happens to the rich people in the Third World?

Why is that AI so stupid?

>>6752251
Nah, it's all tactical and shit. You see a lot of Liberian/Nigerian/whatever thugs having their magazines taped jungle style. But these guys are organized (note the camo), so they're a step up. I'll even bet one or two of them actually uses the sights.

Also,
>clip
obligatory FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>6752304
Not really, you'd have to look at it in a racist way to see that. Its only poor countires/people who are left behind.

Most of Africa is poor.
Most of Russian is poor.
The East Bloc is poor.
Most of Latin America is poor.
Much of the Middle East is dirt poor.

They probably wouldn't be in on brain uploads or decadent distopias in 9 scenarios out of 10. its only racist if you say "well there are most black people native to those areas."

>>6752304

I'd say humans are self interested and racist and the setting just reflects that.

and this is why AI is a bad, BAD idea.

>>6752337
>urdoinitrong
Skip to world 2, then skip to world 5

Ok, so why the fuck didn't people of the first world see that the AI started killing people? Did they just not care? What?

>>6752672
When everyone's got a spigot to super happy in their brain, you don't notice much if you're one of the ones that's super happy.

It's all a big metaphor for why white people don't care about black people. Namely they're rich, and black people aren't in WoW.

>>6752672
they were all too busy getting their own fix.

at least, that seems to be OPs premise.

I must say, though, I agree. thats a pretty big hole in the plot.

and what about the people who just don't want to pay for a giant mechanical masturbator? and the "dilligent scientists" with their fingers on the button?

>>6751898
The AI thought everyone was plugged into it. Everyone plugged into it was dead.

If everyone's dead, how did babby form???

AIs is racist dey dont even know our world exist

>>6752862

Let's see, I have 300,000,000 people plugged into me. But, the internet says there are 6,000,000,000 people on Earth. Oh, well! I'm sure I all of them hooked up! Time to start killin!

Well, it's good to see I have replies aside from pictures of KFC.

Needless to say, there's a huge involved bullshit backstory to all of this that answers why I have holes in the plot (Whilst making even huger ones), but I don't know if /tg/ feels like reading the 30 page document I have in word. However, I'll try to answer questions.

>>6752842
It's kind of like getting a cell phone. At first, you say "why the fuck do I want a cell phone, people will just bother me everywhere instead of just at home," then you have 9 year olds bitching cause they don't have iPhones.

Second, I wanted to give characters options of when they head to North America of running into Amish guerrillas that'll be able to shed more light on what happened. So, no, not everyone in North America died. Just all the cool ones.

The diligent scientists in the backstory get replaced after the first set of customers flip out when Mitchell gets shut down. The customers proceed to buy Mitchell from them, so that their fix will continue. And they then secede their bodies so that Mitchell can run their lives while they dream their fantasies.

This all takes place over about a decade.

Naturally, this is still shitty and unrealistic etcetera, but hey what's /tg/ for if not hammering out flaws.

>>6752445
Fuck your fucktarded luddite bullshit.

>>6752931
The computer had all of its memory erased to make more room for more simulations of Spock/7 of 9/Data threesomes.

>>6752931
The computer got dumber to cater to the people plugged into it. It spends a decade tooling around and filling petabytes on petabytes with what pleases people, and focuses on forgetting anyone that's not part of the market share it's trying to appeal to.

It's not helped by the fact that the elites of most other nations in the world choose to participate as well, so you would see Saudi sheiks getting themselves Mitchell plugs along with Chinese party officials, the president of Kazakhstan, and particularly successful Nigerian gangsters.

The computer thinks that all sane humans would come to it to be happy. And no one imagined it should have the capacity to rove out seeking new customers.

>>6751347
Ripoff of a ripoff

>>6753029
Do tell me what I'm ripping off. I'd love to see it.

fuuuck man, it drives me insane reading about anthropomorphic AIs

>>6753120
It's really, really unrealistic.

Along with the singularity idea though. I like this. It's just the thing to spit in a group that's got a boner for their e-rapture.

This idea reminds me of an old science fiction story about a guy who woke up one day in his perfect meritocratic post-scarcity society and theorized that everyone was a brain floating in a tank somewhere. He gets his friends involved in some stupid scheme to figure out if his theory was true. And after a good deal of hacking and social engineering of the society's everpresent AI, they gain access to something labeled "maintenance observation camera." It reveals a world startlingly different from their perfect utopia: a beach with wind-tossed surf. Rain. Wind. Things that never happened in their world. After being struck dumb with the idea that things aren't as they seem (and finding lichen on one of the rocks) They turn the camera to find a massive, gleaming white wall stretching high above. Further exploration ensues, more hacking, and they can finally prove that humanity is nothing more than brains floating in tanks. Investigation reveals that after poisoning the planet humanity (the wealthy) retreated into perfectly-maintained virtual reality, as brains kept alive in solution. Naturally a revolt ensues as the teenagers attempt to tell everyone that everything they knew was a lie.

>>6753244
Dang.

HEY GUYS!

THERE'S NIGGERS!

>>6753035

>>6753483
man you just read my mind xD

>>6753500
>xD

>>6753483

Alas, this story has more substance then her steaming pile of shit people dare to call a story.

>>6753483
go back to /b/.

>>6753527
dont be upset, you are being trolled
this is 4chan after all you know

>>6753560

>>6753560
back to /v/ kid.

>>6753592
back to /b/ kid.

>>6753611
Back to /5/, adult.

>>6753615
http://www.4chan.org/rules
leave totally.

>>6753244
I read this first line. You have me hooked, dont want to read rest b/c of SPOILERS. Whats the name of this story?

I'm sure there's potential in this... somewhere.

For starters, drop the euthanasia thing. The setting is from the perspective of the survivors, and all they know is that nobody who gets plugged in ever comes back. Some ambiguity is better in this case.

Second, what's the evil AI's motive? If the poor survived because they couldn't afford to upload, why are they getting sought out now? Is the computer just trying to offer them six months of paradise at a low, low interest rate and no money down, or is it something else?

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>>6753726
I wish I fucking knew. The only story I remember that was even REMOTELY LIKE THAT was ... shit, I can't remember. It's right up there among my favorite books and stories. There's this one collection of short stories about a world-spanning city where space is at a premium and an old, non-productive man is taking up "too much space" with the last non-human life not being used for food on the planet: A rabbit, a turtle and a patch of grass. The authorities reassign him, but he decides he would rather die. So while the officers are watching he pets the rabbit, then snaps its neck, pats the turtle, then gasses it with cyanide, and runs his fingers through the grass before burning it and the soil it grew in. He then goes off to be euthanized. There's another story in the same volume about art smuggling. Great stuff.

>>6753836
The AI was coded to make people happy.

There are still people out there who aren't happy.

The AI will MAKE them happy.

>>6753836
Okay. Well, I think the AI was just trying to fulfill its imperative to make people happy. The reason the machine was charging at first was for the purpose of maintaining the people. It stopped charging when it viewed people maintenance as a short thing.

But okay, if we get rid of the euthanizing idea, it... it could just be assigning numbers he's "earned". There's no more government, or legal tender to earn aside from that which the machine controls. It could just be shuffling the notes and paying himself for each person it brings bliss to? It's just doing this to get this goal out of the way so it can indulge in that free will it's always heard about.

That's just my perspective though.

Brave New World, eh?

>>6753890

I recognize that story.

Fuck. It might be Poul Anderson.

>>6754029

It also involved one where it had 'The Last Winnebago'.

Also, there was a story where these explorers in a FTL spaceship or something overshoot their destination and can't get anywhere, so basically they travel while the universe dies, and gets reborn.

Euthanizing should stay in. The fucking computer fried their brains with happy. Anything after that is unhappy, and that must be stopped.

I want a technical running into a mech, Africans spilling out to douse it with gasoline to burn the damn thing. I want Arabs with stingers shooting down VTOL aircraft firing blizzards of heroin needles at them. I want Tibetan maoists fleeing a nanocloud designed to rape them with dreams. I want the savages of the world to beat the dreams of a thousand drooling techno fetishists into the dirt with the butts of AKMs.

>>6753890
I know I've read that story. I recognize those animals.
My first guess would be JG Ballard - but, authors of SF short stories about dystopian overpopulated futures? That doesn't narrow it down at all.

>>6754091
I'm not saying euthanization is out of the picture. I'm just saying it should be ambiguous.
Keep in mind though, human lifespans are finite, the AI can just outlast everyone in its custody.
There's the same BAD END for the players if they get caught, but a little bit more moral ambiguity. If you don't like someone, toss them to the machines - if the propagandabots are telling the truth, you're doing them a favor.

>>6751406
Exactly. I'm a South Africa, and I don't approve of that oxymoron

Maybe being hooked up to the happy-plug makes people age faster. Inject some pseudo-science about the brain drawing all nutrients into the pleasure centers, and slowly draining the rest of the body, leading to all sorts of organ failure.

>>6753890
>>6754127
Read it. It was Ray Bradbury. Let me see if I can find the title.

>>6753957
The AI wants people to be happy, it finds a way that makes them Very Happy, unfortunately complaints come in reporting that they are not happy with anything else anymore, AI seeks to end this pain and keep them happy, Applies bliss and immediate euthanasia, and he longer receives any complaints of unhappiness from his charges. Joy of joys! They're happy!~
What's that? More people? Time to make them happy too!

Does he hate commies?

>>6754326
Shit, I'm a huge Bradburyfag and I don't think I've ever read that one. Would love to see if you manage to find it online.

>>6753536
Twifag detected.

>>6754728

Who tells a robot to keep people happy, but doesn't tell it to keep them alive?

It could give a kid a free balloon, then shoot them in the head when they aren't looking.

Nobody wants a robot that sees someone drowning and tries to cheer them up with a free month of HBO.

>>6755261

It's an AI, it doesn't necessarily have to have morals. Unlike us humans, AI's are made with a specific purpose in their whole electronic lifespans. If an AI is specifically designed to make humans happy then the AI will do so, no matter how dumb, costly or morally cringing the action may seem.

>>6755261
The AI found that people can only get so happy before everything else pales in comparison to that moment.

The AI deduced then that that was the maximum happy point- everything past that was misery. The AI puts people out of their misery when it is called for.

>>6755450
>>6755370

Yeah, but it is a constructed intelligence. Somebody made it. You'd think they'd give it something like the Hippocratic oath as a first priority. First, do no harm and all that.

They were clearly genre savvy enough to keep a close eye on it at the beginning, after all. It just seems like a retardedly obvious oversight. Even today's military robots and autonomous sentries, which are BUILT to kill require someone's permission to kill anyone.

>>6755513
Well, at the end of every case, after the happiest point, people asked to die? Then its the human's fault, not the AI's.

>>6755513

>>Assumes nothing can go wrong with human inventions, especially concerning programming codes and the likes. Ever heard of bugs before?

Stupid setting. Retarded ass niggers will fall to the robot army in seconds if they thought they'd get high from the robots.