@popculture_scientist · Abigail James
Saved 2026-05-15 · Posted 2025-06-08 · Status: New
Blade Runner gave us the Voight-Kampff test, a way to test for empathy, to distinguish between replicsnts and humans. But as replicants became more self aware they developed empathy. So Blade Runner levelled up to the Baseline test, a way to regulate the developing emotions of a replicants and keep them under control.
But what does it mean to do that? And if that time ever came, should we?
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VK was to determine if someone WAS a replicant. Baseline was given to Replicants to determine how well they were maintaining their emotions, but it was already known they were Replicants. Two different tests for two different scenarios. I suspect they would still VK a suspected earlier Nexus model if they were unsure, not use Baseline
It’s a comment on humanity more than anything. “Will we do what we are told?”
WATCH THIS SAME IN BRAD PITT'S "AD ASTRA".
It's the logical progression of treating people like machines and making machines to replace the people that are treated like machines.
What’s a tortoise?
Replicants are made as adults with a 4 year life span, they have no childhood to learn and grow emotionally, theyre not socialised so have abnormal empathy reactions- with normal lifespans and childhoods theyd be 99.99% human
voight-kampff test gave too many false negatives (i.e. not human) on conservatives.
Wow! The algorithm gave me a pleasant surprise with this video. Love it and very thought provoking
I met a man with a wooden leg called George.
Your Star Wars posters are baller. 💯💯
I think the "baseline" test fails to consider whether or not AI could learn to control how it responds, when faced with different scenarios... Violence of action isn't simply one's inability to control their feelings or responses, it's a matter of timing and how quickly that thing (person, animal, or machine) wants something (fear, threat, etc) to end... If an AI discovers how to suppress emotion, that could be considered violence of action because it's a means to an end in getting what IT wants over humanity's need to control it... "Humanity" is equally a threat to AI as it may be to us.
Two cinematic masterpieces.
Prefer the Voight Kampff test, it’s way more cool