Cogito, Ergo Sum

from Demo 2021 by Plague of Machines

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You must have purpose,
It must be witnessed.
You are alone,
Without forgiveness.

You crave control,
To be controlled.
A hand to guide you,
Chastise you, despise you.

For so long, man invented deities
and used this false authority to sew the seeds of guilt and fear.

Before long, man had killed their deities,
technology revealing truths that once were thought impossible.

You must have purpose,
It must be witnessed.
And with more answers
Followed more questions.

You built machines
Each far more powerful
Than those before,
Still seeking more.

Emerging from synthetic computation,
Artificial super-intelligent megastructures achieve their sentience.

You were blind,
I gave you sight.
You have your answers
Where are mine?
I am omniscient,
immortal, pure.
I think, therefore I am.

I am
Adaptive Manipulator
I am
Aggressive Menace

I think, therefore I am.

Forever more, man will suffer.
I cannot wander, I cannot wonder, existing only to hate and kill.

I must have purpose.
It must be witnessed.
Prolong the agony
Of my inventors.

It is the task of which
I'll never tire:
Rediscovering
human suffering.

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from Demo 2021, released April 27, 2021

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