CS Soapbox: Westworld is a Simulation Inside of a Simulation

CS Soapbox: Westworld is a Simulation Inside of a Simulation

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 German serial, World on a Wire, a cybernetics engineer oversees a supercomputer that hosts an artificial world containing thousands of identity units—programs who live as human beings, unaware that their world is not real. After a unit realizes the nature of his reality, the overseeing engineer begins to see abnormalities not only within the supercomputer but in the world around him.…

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