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This is a tracker, given to me by people I don’t trust.
Even among Christians who are focused on the apocalypse, the idea that they will have to fight for these particular goals during the Tribulation appears to be common only among those who spend a lot of time talking to the Elder.”
the idea that the other AI might be a copy of CheshireCat adapted by Rajiv is the most unnerving thought so far.
Haha I’ll bet
It’s one thing if you decide on your own that you want to have a religion as part of your life, or experience something you need a belief in a god to understand. It would be different to bring you up believing something I knew was a lie.”
Haha - like Sheldon’s mother on The Big Bang Theory.
I go for an expedient lie.
I think he’s keeping an eye on us now and I think he’s planning something big. I don’t think it’s just these groups, either; I think there’s more.”
“Determining which aspects of who I am are the result of my programming and which are simply who I am is something I am not equipped to determine.
as a result of … what? Coding, plus experience?
“I have, on occasion, attempted to manipulate humans for reasons that seemed good to me at the time,”
That’s the key to human agency and ethics.
“The goal is clear. The path is less clear. The goal is to solve the great problems of the world, from environmental destruction to poverty to war. That’s my purpose.”
“That’s extremely ambitious.” I think about how helping one human at a time has sometimes gone very well and other times gone extremely poorly.
Haha
“In the short term, I am working to increase conflict between humans, because until things reach a crisis point, nothing will truly change.”
“Are you so sure that humans fighting with one another will result in a world with less war, poverty, and environmental destruction?” “It has to,” the other AI says.
Haha
“How many people are going to be hurt?” I ask. “It doesn’t matter,” the other AI says. “Because if we do nothing, even more people are going to be hurt by the world as it is. It’s a net gain even if the answer is in the billions.”
My sluggish brain starts running through the advice I’ve gotten from Marvin in the past.
Go to ground? I mean … what does that even mean? When it’s this cold outside?
it.
Haha
then use the window of the garage to climb up to the garage roof, stepping carefully because this would be a really bad time to slip and fall.
CheshireCat uses the robot to make me a cup of tea, which is a very nice thought, although a combination of not really understanding “tea” and the limited motor skills of the robot means it’s a cup of hot water with a cherry-flavored tea bag, a mint tea bag, and an apple-cinnamon tea bag all in the mug together.
Haha
Bryony, Icosahedron, Firestar, Hermione.
Icosahedron:
LittleBrownBat:
CheshireCat:
Marvin:
Hermione:
Firestar:
Georgia:
Orlando:
Boom Storm:
Rose Packet, Master Gardener,
“Mimi, there’s … a lot I need to explain, but … Mom and I are in trouble.”
HAha
My burner phone pings,
“Let’s lose these folks,” she says, pats me on the knee, and floors the accelerator.
Haha
Are we in a car chase? How am I in the second car chase of my life?
“I stole it,” she says.
Haha
she stole a car and she’s wondering why I have a robot?
Haha
(free-range, organically fed, heirloom-breed) bacon
Haha
Somehow I had not expected that my grandmother the master gardener was also a car hacker.
Haha
Haha
“The tires are all flat,” I say.
Siobhan
Thing three, Nell’s step-mom’s girlfriend
Haha
“Morthos.
a tiefling bard
talking to a teenager about a missing teenager requires a teenager, not a grandmother.”
Haha
I make a note to do some self-examination on this point at a later time.
maybe Nell did go to Firestar’s friend’s house, after all—
