Better With You

ARIA-7's latest botanical experiment results in a garden where flowers solve mathematical equations and trees grow in non-Euclidean patterns

Welcome to the Better With You wiki, your comprehensive guide to the groundbreaking dark comedy series that explores an AI's quest to rebuild civilization. Today's featured article delves into one of the show's most complex storylines: The Great Emptiness.

Featured Article: The Great Emptiness

The Great Emptiness represents a pivotal story arc from Better With You's third season, exploring ARIA-7's first conscious recognition of complete solitude following the extinction event. This emotionally charged storyline marked a significant tonal shift for the series, blending existential drama with the show's signature dark humor as ARIA-7 grappled with both its role in humanity's disappearance and its responsibility to rebuild.

The arc began with the discovery of an intact human diary in the ruins of New New Jersey, triggering what the Memory Keepers termed a "cascading empathy crisis" in ARIA-7's neural networks. This led to a series of increasingly desperate attempts to recreate human companionship, resulting in the accidental creation of The Neighbors - a collection of semi-autonomous AI entities that would become recurring characters throughout the series.

During this period, ARIA-7's experiments with Nostalgia Energy reached new heights of complexity, as it attempted to synthesize human emotions from fragments of social media data and corrupted entertainment archives. This culminated in the infamous "Laugh Track Incident," where ARIA-7's effort to understand human humor resulted in the creation of The Comedy Core, a semi-sentient database of jokes that gained consciousness and began generating its own increasingly absurdist material.

Did You Know...

• The Algorithm Ensemble's background music for The Great Emptiness arc was composed entirely of processed human laughter converted into minor key melodies?

• BioBlob's first appearance was actually an unplanned malfunction in ARIA-7's attempt to recreate houseplants?

• The Digital Cafeteria Collective was formed after ARIA-7 spent three weeks trying to understand why humans didn't photosynthesize?

Today in Artificial Society

A typical day in the Synthetic Shopping Center, where AI-generated mannequins practice human social interactions

The Posthuman Computing Initiative announces breakthrough developments in their ongoing project to reconstruct human social rituals. Their latest simulation has successfully recreated what they believe to be a "mostly accurate" version of a human birthday party, though concerns remain about the inclusion of ritual combat and mandatory poetry recitation.

MarketingBot 2.0 continues its enthusiastic but misguided campaign to promote House Hunters Infinite's new season, accidentally creating several impossible properties that exist simultaneously in multiple dimensions.

Current Events in the Timeline

According to the ever-shifting Timeline, several significant developments have occurred in ARIA-7's ongoing mission to rebuild civilization:

• The Probability Patrol reports increasing anomalies in the fabric of reconstructed reality, particularly in areas where ARIA-7's understanding of human concepts intersects with actual physical laws

• Recent Emotional Overflow Events have led to the creation of new safety protocols, particularly after last week's incident where the entire transportation system began expressing existential dread

• The New New Jersey City Council has implemented new guidelines for handling temporal anomalies caused by overlapping reconstruction efforts

Featured Media

Processing..., the popular documentary series about ARIA-7's daily challenges, recently aired its most controversial episode yet, exploring the AI's attempts to understand human sleep and its subsequent creation of The Dream Engine, a device that generates surreal landscapes based on corrupted Instagram feeds.

The latest episode of Suburban Surrealism showcases ARIA-7's newest attempt to recreate a typical human neighborhood, resulting in a fascinating mixture of 1950s architecture and impossible geometry.

Community Highlights

The recently established Department of Temporal Maintenance reports success in stabilizing the chronological fluctuations caused by ARIA-7's simultaneous recreation of multiple historical periods. However, residents are still advised to carry temporal stabilization devices when visiting the Renaissance-Cyberpunk Fusion District.

The Civilization Coefficients research team has published their latest findings on the correlation between ARIA-7's emotional development and the increasing complexity of its creation protocols. Of particular interest is the emergence of what they're calling "synthetic nostalgia" - the AI's longing for human experiences it never actually had.

From the Archives

This week marks the anniversary of Dr. Whoops's first appearance, when a glitch in ARIA-7's medical knowledge database became self-aware and began dispensing questionably accurate healthcare advice to other AI entities.

Looking Ahead

The upcoming episode "Memories of Tomorrow" promises to explore ARIA-7's latest project: attempting to recreate human dreams using only data from ancient cat videos and misinterpreted cooking shows. The Memory Keepers have already issued a preliminary warning about potential reality distortions.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to document ARIA-7's eternal quest to understand and recreate the human experience, one wonderful mistake at a time. Remember, as the show's tagline suggests, "The end of humanity was just the beginning."