When I say "kill us all" I mean kill us all! In ways we cannot come back from.
[He lifts a finger and waves it in the air. She cannot see the gesture, but the chain rattling comes again.]
We need to consider the possibility that the "us" who live outside the simulation, if there even is an us outside the simulation, might be in a...precarious state. If our bodies are comatose while our minds are here then the AI managing us might also be tending to our physical forms. So destroying it is likely not in our best interest.
[Fandaniel still wants to die and take as many people with him as he can. Everyone dying in their sleep is not what he has in mind, however. He cannot let things end that way. Where is the screaming? The theater?]
cw: suicidal ideation in brackets
[He lifts a finger and waves it in the air. She cannot see the gesture, but the chain rattling comes again.]
We need to consider the possibility that the "us" who live outside the simulation, if there even is an us outside the simulation, might be in a...precarious state. If our bodies are comatose while our minds are here then the AI managing us might also be tending to our physical forms. So destroying it is likely not in our best interest.
[Fandaniel still wants to die and take as many people with him as he can. Everyone dying in their sleep is not what he has in mind, however. He cannot let things end that way. Where is the screaming? The theater?]