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this statement is false

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I’ll go with true.

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A fun detail is that all the franken cubes fry and die after hearing the paradox, but Wheatley is still fine.

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Really? I didn’t notice that.

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I always wondered why glados is fine, just saying because she’s a potatoe doesn’t sit with me because she recognised the paradox herself, so she must know what a paradox is and understand why it’s dangerous for ai

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Yeah, the implication being that in a typical Sledgehammers-To-Crack-Nuts solution to a nonexistent problem, Aperture put full-blown, totally sentient AIs in their cubes/turrets that were at least as intelligent as Wheatley.

Also I only just noticed that Bagley from Watch Dogs is very, very similar to Wheatley.

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but then it wouldn’t be false

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