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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 didn’t either till someone mentioned it in a speed running video

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Was that Msushi? I think I heard that same fact from him.

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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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I think she was intelligent enough to temporarily shut down the portions of her brain that would be effected. At least that was my take.

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I always saw it as her just saying in her mind, “This. Statement. Is. False.” thus just being some four individual one word sentences.

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That is plausible, but she saw the sign and read the paradoxes on the signboard - surely just seeing the paradoxes written on the sign would have caught her off guard. I guess it doesn’t matter, they just wanted to do a funny moment and it was still good

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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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