Mar 27, 2020
Listener mail after "Westworld" Season 3, Episode 2 covers great minds like Lacan, Fromm, Faucault, Sartre, Barthe, Chomsky, and Rahobo.
Ashley and Gene compare brain boners. Big D finds a mispronunciation mate, and we celebrate the memory of a Shat listener who is no longer with us.
Longtime friend of the pod Thiago writes in with a Biblical "Umm ... Actually" while laying on thicc praise for Armand Delgado. Muhip gives us a lesson in adversarial neural networks, and Dick Ebert teaches us about CPU bottlenecks.
We discuss whether Dolores ever put a Westworld friend in Charlottes body, whether Maeve ever met Serac, and whether hosts other than Dolores already have infiltrated the "real world."
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Westworld Episode 2 Summary: "The Winter
Line"
Bernard returns to Westworld and discovers the
Ashley host is still functioning. With Ashley's help, they find the
Maeve host, but it is lacking its "pearl" and that it is no longer
in the park. Bernard uses the systems there to verify that Dolores
had not contaminated his code, and discovers Dolores targeted
several prior park guests including Liam. He reprograms Ashley to
help protect him as they return to the mainland. Maeve is rescued
from Warworld by Hector but realizes this is another narrative and
kills herself to come to in Operations, discovering Lee is alive
and wants to help get her to the Forge. However, Maeve soon
realizes that this is all a virtual simulation, and after testing
its bounds, is able to break her pearl free from its real-world
location, but guards stop the attempt. She wakes in a real-world
host body and meets Serac, who, after initially thinking she was
the major disruption on the system he built, wants her help to stop
Dolores.
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