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The thought of the machine adding crack ships to her simulations just because she can will never not be funny to me.

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Okay so I'm watching If-Then-Else for the first time. And quite aside from the absolutely HUGE brained idea of having a time loop episode told from the Machine's POV via scenario simulations, it makes me SO EMOTIONAL because it really shows Her humanity. She doesn't just calculate actions and reactions purely related to the mission. She KNOWS these people. She knows Harold would be distracted by a piece of beautiful and priceless art. She knows Sameen would suck at talking down a suicide bomber. She knows John would save Fusco at his own expense. She knows if Root knew she was going to die she'd want her last words to be for Sameen. SHE KNOWS THESE PEOPLE THEY'RE HER FAMILY. 😭

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You ever think about how harold taught the machine that life is not a game of chess, and during if-then-else she knows that shaw's intervention increases the chances of success tenfold, but not one of the simulations includes this scenario because you can't sacrifice people.

And then shaw sacrifices herself anyway, and the machine keeps adding decimals to her odds trying to save her.

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You asked me to teach you chess, and I've done that. It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing. Do you know why not?

Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little and everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings and pawns.

I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else. I don't envy you the decisions you're going to have to make. And one day I'll be gone, and you'll have no one to talk to. But if you remember nothing else, please remember this:

Chess is just a game. Real people aren't pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice.

The lesson is: Anyone who looks on the world as if it were a game of chess deserves to lose.

— Harold Finch, not knowing how to explain to his AI offspring that it should care about people (but doing his best), Person of Interest 4x11 “If-Then-Else”