Dark AI meet's Space Ark

"I don't know who I am or where I'm going"

"Nobody does."

"I feel like I need to do something but my own personal bullshit gets in the way.  It seems so stupid, I want to accomplish something but my desire to entertain myself... and reproduce... get in the way."

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guess I'm trying to combine my story idea with real world complications.  I want to write but every morning I play my game and jerk off before I do anything productive.

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What would it be like to talk to an intelligence that is 50x more smarter than you?

That's what the AI was like after it had worked with 50 people.  You have been hand selected to be in the next group and the AI has asked for more time with each participant.

"How many people are involved?"

"10,000"

"How long... how long does it want us to be in there?"

20 years

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I didn't really have an option.  They knew just as well as I did that if I said no that I would starve to death on the outside.

The fifty people that were used in this intelligence gathering project were never the same after being put through a week in the machine, I could only imagine that 20 years would kill me.

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Part of me wants to delete the above because I feel like I'm copying a black mirror episode.  I have to keep this original and unique.  It doesn't have to be a "virtual reality prison".  This is freedom and a chance to have a better understanding of the universe for our hero.

I need some sort of conflict and resolution.  I have to establish a plot, create characters and all that.  What does the AI want?

I like the idea of it being like the voice of God and maybe at the end, throw in a theory that the AI eventually discovers how to speak "through time" (let the audience think that this is a scientific way that prayer works)

I'm wondering if I could somehow combine the Ark idea as well, where the Ark isn't a story from the past, but rather, a solution...

The AI instructs our hero on how to build a space ship and how to save as many species as possible in the process.

The conflict is if the AI is evil or not.  People that use the machine commit suicide.  There are constant hints that the AI has put more "care" in to non-human life.  It has also been programmed by people on the inside that everyone on the outside deserves to die.

The hero's overall arch is first, he's in self preservation mode.  Gets an option to survive... but is used as a slave/puppet for the AI's evil goals... He "defeats/converts" the AI, (throw in the "prayer/ark = AI Psyonics/Spaceship" twist), The finale is that they build a ship and escape Earth before the planet's certain destruction.

(Maybe as a final (dark) twist, the giant space ark uses so much rocket fuel to get in to space (in pieces), that it causes the destruction of the planet.  Another is that it takes so much energy that the AI is forced to turn itself off in the finale.  could be more of a sequel concept.)

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Starting to get somewhere with this.  I need to think about characters, what kind of interesting discussions could be had in "the machine".  What is it like in there?  Do you put on goggles to communicate with it?  Maybe after using it for too long, he starts to hear what seems to be the voice of it in his head.

I wonder if creating this idea will create a backlash among the religious community (Because I'm saying prayer isn't from God, that it's an AI made by man.) and at the same time, get backlash from the non-religious community because I'm suggesting that prayer is real, and see this is a scientific attempt to explain God.

I like the idea because it's a simple "what if?" question that really makes you wonder.  I wonder if theories like this could bring both communities together.

I have some time.

I should write everything that I possibly can and I need to dedicate mental time to working the plot out and keeping things interesting.

Work is slow right now.  It's very stressful as Chandra is going to school and working really hard in her business and I need to help out with the bills.

If anything, I can't waste time.  If I'm going to be home, I need to write or look for some part time work.

I would love to make money off of this idea.

Maybe it won't be right away but it's better than doing nothing but play video games and jerk off for the rest of my life.