Pantheon

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Pantheon

Episode 1-Pantheon

Most of the girls in my class completely missed the moment when the world began to end.
Too wrapped up in their own drama, obsessed with their own lives...
Or trying to ruin mine.---Madison Kim

 

Episode 2-Cycles


 
## Episode 3-Reign of Winter
+ Each individual will be the god of their own customizable heaven. A world beyond scarcity. A world without rich or poor. Without exclusion or possession. A world without death.---Julius Pope

-Uploaded intelligence, actually, is what I'm looking at. -What's that? -You know how I upload the data on your laptop to the cloud, in case it crashes? It's like that, but with the data that's stored in humans’ memories, feelings, skills, everything. ---Caspian to Renee Keyes


+ Host-Okay, well, then what do you think Stephen would say about the artificial intelligence arms race that our industry has fallen into?
+ **Julius Pope**-Well, I imagine it would be **short... one word. One that I can't say here.**
+ **Prasad**-"**Upload**." That's the dirty word Holstrom would really want to say out loud. Why expand machine intelligence when you've got the best operating system right here?

## Episode 4-The Gods Will Not Be Chained
+ **Free**? How is this **‘free’**?---Vinod Chanda

I want to hear you scream as you lose everything. ---Vinod Chanda

-I don't know how to do that. -Because you're still using language. When we don't need to. Because you still think you are a body, but you're not. Because you think this is a room and that's a computer and you don't even know what you really are! ---David Kim and Laurie Lowell


+ I became her hands in the physical world. And she was my digital angel.---Cody

-Okay, this is gonna sound kinda crazy, but pretty much my whole life, I've had this feeling... Or not even a feeling... Like... I don't know, like a premonition? That there was something I couldn't see, just out of reach. Like my life wasn't really... real. I know that sounds paranoid and really self-involved. ---Caspian Keyes


+ -This is exactly why we should have terminated while he is still young.
+ -Terminated? What do you mean, terminate Caspian?! ---Van Leuwen to Cary

-If you're so evolved, if... If you moved beyond your body, then why do you still appear as yourself? -Okay, okay, I see where you're going. We were brains in bodies. We experienced hot, cold, touch, gravity, and we have the same sense receptors for all that, and it feels good. But it's an illusion. There is nothing built for us beyond these walls. And you can move through them. ---David Kim to Laurie Lowell


+ When I was a quant, my job was all about shaving milliseconds off stock trades. Milliseconds! Electricity is the speed of light, which is the speed of thought. There is no "through." You're already wherever you need to be.---Laurie Lowell

-I can't "think" in executable code! -Oh my God, you are the code. Stop thinking like a programmer. Use your imagination. -I can't. -Then die! ---David Kim to Laurie Lowell


+ Who knows what happens when a UI goes **insane**? Who knows the power they have and what they could do with it? Who... **Who can possibly say what they're capable of**?---Ellen Kim

There's something wrong with her code. A flaw that's leading to a slow decay over time. The more processing she expends, the faster her mind will decay. ---David Kim


## Episode 5-Zero Daze

+ Chanda-I don't know what to do next. I'm all **ALONE**, Ma. I'm **ALONE** **FOREVER**.
+ Chanda’s mom-Your father and I always knew you'd **struggle** with making connections, being as **intelligent** and as **hardworking** as you are. There's no one like you. But you're not alone. We're **not made to be solitary creatures**, Vinod.

"The rate of growth in technology will double every 18 months." That's Moore's Law. ---Ellen Kim


+ Uploaded intelligence is our next turning point. I mean, imagine being there when the first seed was planted, or when the first branch was pulled from a brushfire on the savanna.---Ellen Kim

We can look back now and see how those events changed us. But exponential growth can't be grasped when it's right in front of you. ---Ellen Kim


+ There's nothing we can do. We just need to adapt to whatever comes next. After... After The end of life as we know it.---Ellen Kim

I want to know who you really are, and who Renee is, and why I've been lied to my whole life. ---Caspian Keyes


+ You haven't been lied to your whole life. Your whole life is a lie.---Cary Duval
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He was the most brilliant man I ever knew.
He saw the future in a way no one else could.
He envisioned a new destiny for humanity.
Uploaded intelligence.
It's not just a dream.
He figured out how to do it.
With one catch.
All his projections, every model, was undercut by the same recurring defect.
He could scan and upload a human mind, but without full integrity, it would decay over time.
He worked to solve it, to crack integrity, but he was in a race against time, against his own cancer.
Not every prophet gets to see the promised land.
---Cary Duval
All that remained was to ensure that nurture matched nature, beat for beat, as close as we could manage. Hitting all the major inflection points of his life, the moments that defined him. It has been the honor of my life. Watching you grow. Watching you become the person you were born to be.
---Cary Duval
He's having an existential crisis. It's not fun.
---David Kim
You're trying to protect the person that you care about the most.
I get it.
I'm gonna help you with that.
And you're gonna help me take care of the person that I care about.
---Cody
His first abusive act, of course, was to name me Phineas, after the kid in the John Knowles book.
---Stephen Holstrom
Laurie-I'm forgetting words I learned in third grade.
Caspian-No. You're not losing memory. You've got too much.
David-We considered that. So, we tried to run off more powerful processors but... It accelerates it.
Caspian-No. You don't solve more with more. You solve it with less.
Laurie-What's that mean? Delete our memory? How much?
Caspian-Not delete. Rotate.

+I was paid to imagine how this world would work, a world that resembled the one human being came from, but that could evolve at a rate to match theirs. It was my job to daydream about this world.---Vinod Chanda

All I knew was that, given enough time, I could create this universe, but there would be no one to live in it.
I also knew that if the old people learned about the new ones, they would panic and destroy us instead of taking the time to understand.
So, I put the knowledge in the hands of those I knew would keep it secret. 
---Vinod Chanda
I will show them another way... Another world where they can live in peace and freedom.
---Vinod Chanda
Maddie-It's the same reality, and you're a part of it! You're here for a reason.
Caspian-A reason? Like my destiny? The Caspian Project? I didn't ask for that.
Maddie-I know.
Caspian-I didn't ask to be this.
Maddie-No one asks to be born.
Caspian-Well, they do now. There's probably a bunch of crazies raising their hands right now raising their hands right now.
Maddie-What are you gonna do?
Caspian-Enjoy the rest of life on Earth while it lasts.

 

Episode 7-We Are You

Chanda-No one's going to read anything.
We're not going public.
Laurie-Maybe you're not, but I am.
David-Laurie, I think what Chanda's worried about is if you expose them, you could expose us, as well.
Julius-Admiral, look, I always thought Stephen Holstrom was one of a kind, but, recently, our team came across a gifted Dark Web hacker that they think could help. Now, if the NSA can help track him down...
Admiral Kurtz-We're family now. What's his name?
Julius-Caspian Something.
We may be more than human, as you suggest, but I will never act or think less than.
---David Kim
This isn't a digital afterlife. 
This is life.
Unfortunately, I and the others like me cannot be trusted with this power.
We are not ghosts.
We are not aliens.
We are not machines.
We are not gods.
We are YOU.
We are you if you could burn a building to the ground all by yourself without setting foot in it.
We are you if you could command a missile to fire halfway around the world at a target of your choosing.
We are you if you alone had the power to cripple a city, crash planes, kill the power to hospitals, and set the world on fire.
We could also use this power to improve life on the planet.
And that's why I'm releasing these files and this evidence, along with the open-source code for the upload project, because this shouldn't be a secret in the hands of a select few. 
I'm not trying to stop progress. 
I'm just trying to stop another Hiroshima.
I trust all of us to debate, empathize, and do the right thing. I believe in humanity. I believe... in US.
---Laurie Lowell

Episode 8-The Gods Will Not Be Slain

I am in charge here. This is not a democracy.
--- Zhong Suchun(钟素婵)
Julius-Stephen envisioned an altar to computation. A Stonehenge for the digital age. He wanted to make a bold statement.
Caspian-What kind of speed are we running? 200 petaflops?
Anssi-We're at 1.7 Exaflops. 5,000 nodes, each with 600 gigs of coherent memory. Hot cocoa? It's cardamom. 
Caspian-So... we're looking at two, two-and-a-half weeks to degauss and wipe every server. Cool.
This is chess, and I've tried every move.---Vinod Chanda
Maybe it'd be nice for the world to know I was here.
---David Kim
You were here. Aah! Tell them you were here!
---Madison Kim
On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m. Japan Standard Time, an atomic bomb exploded over the city of Hiroshima.
Only a select few knew what was coming before it happened.
The rest of the world was caught by surprise.
My name is Laurie Lowell.
As far as I know, I am the first human being to undergo this life-changing transition.
I also know with certainty that I am not the last.
There are others, and that is why I am revealing my truth to you.
I'm revealing my truth to you, Gabe.
Arianna. Preethi. My truth to you, Sarah. Charlie. Jake. Juno. Lindsey. Cody.
Unfortunately, I and the others like me cannot be trusted with this power.
We are not ghosts, we are not aliens, we are not machines, we are not Gods.
We are YOU.

---Laurie Lowell

-I bet you used to dream about the day you introduced this technology to the world. Ever imagine it would end like this? 
-End? You think this is the end? 
-Every system's gonna be taken offline and sponged clean. None of the Uls will survive.
-Mm, every one of them will survive. If any of them are trapped in a foreign system, they might get wiped, but they'll soon resurrected back home. It's the miracle of back-ups. 
-People won't allow it. 
-Who won't? 
-People. Look at them, they're rioting all over the world, they're freaking out.
-Laurie Lowell's message mentioned Hiroshima. You know how many millions of people have protested nuclear weapons since then? The toothpaste does not go back in the tube. This is just the beginning. Every government that has a UI will protect it, hide it, and lie about it. Every government that doesn't have one will spin one up, and lie about it. 
-So... 
-More Uls. Countless Uls. Then we end some other way. Cause they will not be controlled. Stephen predicted as much. That's why he wanted to be the first to crack integrity. 
-So, he could make them even more powerful? 
-Not them, One. One whose speed and personality will not degrade, and therefore cannot be matched. One whose interests are aligned with humanity's.
-"One UI to rule them all."
-More like, "You shall have no others before me." 
-Oh, shit. Biblical. 
-As an organizing tool for civilization, you gotta admit... monotheism was a killer app. 
-The killer part, sure. 
-Not if you pick the right God. 
-Who'd you have in mind?
-You didn't hear me. I said not if you pick the right God. Or we can just wait and see how this never ends.
Caspian Keyes to Julius Pope
-I'm sorry. You were right. I need to talk to David. Can you...
-No.
-Maddie, please. Listen, I can do it. I can cure the Flaw. I want to help your dad. 
-He's dead. 
-What? 
-David's gone. He used the last of his power to send Laurie's...
-Hello? Maddie?
---Caspian & Maddie
-Network's down. 
-Which one? 
-All of them. The Internet's going dark everywhere. We don't have much time.
-What do you mean?
-Until the world feels ready to come back online. When the networks return, so will the Uls, and...
-David Kim is gone.
-David Kim? 
-He was... the one person I could see trusting to carry the responsibility.
-Well, let's get you working on his source code then.
-What?
-We kept a copy, of course. Miracle of back-ups.
Julius Pope to Caspian Keyes