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Obviously the Westworld computer thinks humans are simple and their attempt to reconstruct consciousness won’t work. If you fit a complex model to a set of data, then test it on the exact same set of data, you will eventually get a perfect model. But that can only really tell you how the model performs in those specific circumstances of the initial data. It’ll break down the moment anything at all shifts, and reality is not itself predictable at any given instance. Westworld AI doesn’t think humans can change, and thinks they’re overly simplistic, because they overfit their model. The human redos fail because the algorithm can’t cope with new situations. It’s bad statistics. This is why the robots don’t fail—they make mistakes, they have room for improvisation and adaptation. Fidelity is not a good approach to recreating consciousness because in the end we don’t even replicate ourselves perfectly, not really.

Also, the sample they’re analyzing is biased. Because what kind of rich asshole goes to a theme park designed for shooting and fucking things that are practically human? And also, their behavior is happening in a place without real stakes—how would the algorithms change if they were in the real world? Of course they’re all simple and terrible.

I hope that the coming seasons deal with Dolores realizing that her view of humans is wrong as she encounters new people in new situations, just as Maeve encountered compassionate people and just as the humans who followed her changed, like Lee.