r/Weird • u/TheOddityCollector • 2d ago

This cluster of fossilised creatures look like they came from another planet

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u/UFI420 2d ago

They look like the octopus robots from The Matrix

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u/Pure_Wrongdoer_4714 2d ago

Yep! Sentinels from the matrix

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u/naftel 2d ago

Maybe we’ve been viewing the problem of life being a simulation (us being in the matrix) in the wrong order…. Maybe instead of finding out we are in it now and have to escape; the scenario is humanity already escaped in the past (these sentinel fossils support this version).

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u/tkneezer 2d ago

Wait wait... So what's that mean for us?!

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u/Fragwolf 2d ago

Just means that history is cyclical as we slowly rebuild A.I and robotics to do this shit all over again.

Man and Artificial Intelligence forever trapped on this rock, doomed to fight and die over and over again.

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u/dirtymike401 2d ago

Well, not forever.

In about 5 billion years the sun will turn into a red giant and swallow our planet.

Hopefully we get hit with a massive meteor much earlier than that though.

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u/Apprehensive-Till861 2d ago

5 billion years

And we still won't have had Winds of Winter released.

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u/thinkingwithportalss 2d ago

Don't worry, they're working on LLMs that will be able to generate the winds of winter with the same quality as the show!

Season 8 of the show, that is