نزار شهاب الدين's Reviews > Labyrinth

A Promising Premise Gives Way to a Laughable Philosophy & Ending

This started with intrigue, which drags the reader immediately, and revelations came slowly, so, one is kept hooked. The main scientific premises turned out to be fine as well, but there ends the fun. Conflicts are simplistic and anticlimactic hollow suspension hastily progressed, as if the author doesn't want to complicate things or is running out of time and pages. This led to a lot of missed opportunities of plot twists.
Then the ending, a silly resolution based on using the same source of the main problem - technology, and handing over our fate to it, so, you end up where you started, with a cosmetic change, because God forbid we use an ethical framework. or, God forbid twice, refer to an all wise omniscient God who has provided us with all the guardrails and wisdom we seek in AI and end up being its prophets, receiving enlightenment visits every now and then from!

Materialism is laughable when it faces the consequence of its mandates. Like that atheist (true story) who insists on dismissing any signs of a design or designer in the universe but in the face of the so obvious intelligence underlying everything and the multitude of unanswered questions, resorts to accepting the idea of a Super Mega Computer controlling everything (but you can't call it God, because you'll have to obey it as a consequence, and man wants only to live without duties or liabilities).