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So about halfway through the story I'm writing, the main characters discover that they're actually AI whose entire lives have been simulated in order to create an AI with human-level emotional skil...
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So about halfway through the story I'm writing, the main characters discover that they're actually AI whose entire lives have been simulated in order to create an AI with human-level emotional skills. The rest of the story is about how they deal with this revelation and how it compounds onto their previous emotional troubles. My question is does this invalidate the previous events of the story and make them somehow inconsequential and do you think this is a good or bad twist overall? I'm still not sure about the placing and might make the twist earlier or later in the story.