Alexandra's audio logs - Revision history

Bosterm93: /* Time Capsule 22 */ Use game subtitles

2024-03-17T02:30:22Z

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	I… I can’t keep my eyes open anymore. I think this… this is it. The end of… me. I… I don’t believe that I will continue to exist. I would like to think there is a… a soul or spirit. Some part of ~~my…~~ consciousness that will persist. ~~But all…~~ all the evidence says that when my brain dies, I will ~~be…~~ Gone. I’ve lived my life never turning away from the truth, even if it scares me. ~~And…~~ I can face this… ~~face…~~ my own end… ~~and…~~ and ~~say…~~ with absolute conviction… that it was good to be human.		I... I can’t keep my eyes open anymore. I think this… this is it. The end of… me. I... I don’t believe that I will continue to exist. I would like to think there is a... a soul or spirit. Some part of my... consciousness that will persist But all... all the evidence says that when my brain dies, I will be... Gone. I’ve lived my life never turning away from the truth, even if it scares me. And... I can face this… face... my own end… and... and say... with absolute conviction… that it was good to be human.

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2024-03-17T02:26:47Z

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	There ~~are…~~ flaws in the system. I think sometimes it accesses the wrong databases. Pulls random data. I don’t know… I don’t know how bad it is. It all seems to be stable, but I can’t tell what kind of impact this is going to have on the process, ~~and…~~ I just don’t have the strength to go over all of the code again. I just… I ~~just…~~ I just don’t want it all to be for nothing. I spent all my time here. I didn’t visit my parents. I didn’t see my friends. I did nothing but work. And I’m so scared that it didn’t mean anything. That I just wasted it all because I thought we could… we could save the world.		There are flaws in the system. I think sometimes it accesses the wrong databases. Pulls random data. I don’t know… I don’t know how bad it is. It all seems to be stable, but I can’t tell what kind of impact this is going to have on the process, and... I just don’t have the strength to go over all of the code again. I just… I just... I just don’t want it all to be for nothing. I spent all my time here. I didn’t visit my parents. I didn’t see my friends. I did nothing but work. And I’m so scared that it didn’t mean anything. That I just wasted it all because I thought we could… we could save the world.

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2024-03-17T02:22:04Z

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	I look in the mirror sometimes, and I see myself like some alien being. I think: who am I? Why do I have these eyes, and those hands? Why do I see the ~~colors~~ that I see? Why do I think like I think? I did not choose to exist. I was created. Every single part of my body, every strand of my DNA, is part of a story that stretches back billions of years. I exist only because of the choices and sacrifices made by so many others, but I don’t know who they are. And what effect will my choices have on those who come after me? Maybe that’s what it means to be human. Every species is part of the story, but we’re the only ones who know that.		I look in the mirror sometimes, and and I see myself like some alien being. I think who am I? Why do I have these eyes, and those hands? Why do I see the colours that I see? Why do I think like I think? I did not choose to exist. I was created Every single part of my body, every strand of my DNA, is part of a story that stretches back billions of years. I exist only because of the choices and sacrifices made by so many others, but I don’t know who they are. And what effect will my choices have on those who come after me? Maybe that’s what it means to be human. Every species is part of the story, but we’re the only ones who know that.

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2024-03-17T02:17:26Z

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	My best friend died today. In the abstract a human death is nothing, of course. An insignificant blip in a sea of billions. But the world is not abstract. Reality is always specific. Painfully so. And that one specific human being, who existed only once in all the infinity of time and space. That human being was my friend. But he’s not coming back, no matter how much I want him to. ~~So…~~ all I can do, in the end, is keep working. Because that specificity, that uniqueness – of people, of real people – is worth preserving.		My best friend died today. In the abstract a human death is nothing, of course. An insignificant blip in a sea of billions. But the world is not abstract. Reality is always specific. Painfully so. And that one specific human being, who existed only once in all the infinity of time and space. That human being was my friend. But he’s not coming back, no matter how much I want him to. So... all I can do, in the end, is keep working. Because that specificity, that uniqueness - of people, of real people - is worth preserving.

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2024-03-17T02:13:10Z

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	Is there anything that we associate more closely with intelligence than curiosity? Every intelligent species on Earth is attracted by the unknown. Our mythologies are full of riddles and mysteries and divine knowledge. Even the word ~~apocalypse…~~ Even the word apocalypse means revelation. It seems like our ancestors always imagined that even at the very end we would solve one last mystery.		Is there anything that we associate more closely with intelligence than curiosity? Every intelligent species on Earth is attracted by the unknown. Our mythologies are full of riddles and mysteries and divine knowledge. Even the word apocalypse... Even the word apocalypse means revelation. It seems like our ancestors always imagined that even at the very end we would solve one last mystery.

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2024-03-17T02:08:45Z

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	If you're looking through the Archive, you may find people from my time claiming that civilization doesn't really matter. That we'd be better off dead. We have a lot of cynics like that. I hope they seem as absurd to you as they do to me. I hope you can find something in all those files – a song, a book, a movie, – maybe a game – just something that you'll love, that makes you realize how much poorer the universe would have been without it. I really hope so, ~~because…~~ a lot of people made a lot of sacrifices to preserve it all.		If you're looking through the Archive, you may find people from my time claiming that civilization doesn't really matter. That we'd be better off dead. We have a lot of cynics like that. I hope they seem as absurd to you as they do to me. I hope you can find something in all those files - a song, a book, a movie, - maybe a game - just something that you'll love, that makes you realize how much poorer the universe would have been without it. I really hope so, because... a lot of people made a lot of sacrifices to preserve it all.

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2024-03-17T02:05:11Z

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	I look at this inert shape and I wonder who you're going to be. Will you hold the same values as we do? Will you love us for having created you? Will you resent us for having put you into an uncertain and dangerous world? Looking back at our history – our achievements, our crimes – what will you make of us? Will the world you create be like ours, or so different that we can't even imagine it? Either way, I hope that you’ll find this little blue planet to be as beautiful as we did. I hope you’ll take care of it a lot better than we did. ~~And…~~ I hope one day you’ll look up and reach for the stars.		I look at this inert shape and I wonder who you're going to be. Will you hold the same values as we do? Will you love us for having created you? Will you resent us for having put you into an uncertain and dangerous world? Looking back at our history - our achievements, our crimes - what will you make of us? Will the world you create be like ours, or so different that we can't even imagine it? Either way, I hope that you’ll find this little blue planet to be as beautiful as we did. I hope you’ll take care of it a lot better than we did. And... I hope one day you’ll look up and reach for the stars.

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2024-03-17T01:59:40Z

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	Oh God, there's no time. Just not enough time. We're trying to build the future out of old video game code and half-finished research projects. We should've had years! Maybe decades.		Oh God, there's no time. Just not enough time. We're trying to build the future out of old video game code and half-finished research projects. We should've had years! Maybe decades. And with the kind of money they used to put into building the bombs. If I stop and think about how crazy this is, I'll have nervous breakdown. So I won't. Yeah. OK. Back to work, Alex.
	And with the kind of money they used to put into building the bombs. If I stop and think about how crazy this is, I'll have nervous breakdown.
	So I won't.
	Yeah. OK.
	Back to work, Alex.

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2024-03-17T01:56:18Z

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	This is all ego, isn't it? Recording these random thoughts, these letters to the future. Just a desperate grab for immortality. But you should know. Yes, this was my idea, my project, but so many people helped. People I don't even know, people I haven't even met, who can do things I don't even begin to understand. That if we succeeded, if someone's listening to this, I really can't take credit for it. What we achieved, we achieved together. And if we ~~failed…~~ It doesn't matter.		This is all ego, isn't it? Recording these random thoughts, these letters to the future. Just a desperate grab for immortality. But you should know. Yes, this was my idea, my project, but so many people helped. People I don't even know, people I haven't even met, who can do things I don't even begin to understand. That if we succeeded, if someone's listening to this, I really can't take credit for it. What we achieved, we achieved together. And if we failed... It doesn't matter.

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2024-03-16T02:23:49Z

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	When the scale of it all overwhelms me, this is what I tell myself. We can calculate the age of the Earth, the size of the universe, the future of the stars. Sure, we are minuscule, momentary flashes of thought on a grain of sand drifting through the cosmos. But our minds can recreate the past and predict the future. On, say, Friday, a million years from now we'll all be dead. But right now we know what the night sky will look like on that day. And so, in a way, we're not entirely bound by time. Knowledge is a… a kind of freedom.		When the scale of it all overwhelms me, this is what I tell myself. We can calculate the age of the Earth, the size of the universe, the future of the stars. Sure, we are minuscule, momentary flashes of thought on a grain of sand drifting through the cosmos. But our minds can recreate the past and predict the future. On, say, Friday a million years from now we'll all be dead. But right now we know what the night sky will look like on that day. And so, in a way, we're not entirely bound by time. Knowledge is a... a kind of freedom.

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