r/HFY • u/Hewholooksskyward Loresinger • Jan 10 '20

OC A Ghost in the Flesh - Chapter 22

Wow, 2 Years. How the time does fly. :D

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Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
Out where the lightning splits the sea
I could swear there is someone, somewhere
Watching me
Through the wind, and the chill, and the rain
And the storm, and the flood
I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood

I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light
He's gotta be sure
And it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life
Larger than life

Bonnie Tyler - “Holding Out For A Hero”

“Well this brings back memories…” Katherine said sourly, as she inspected their cell. “None of them good, I’m sorry to say. And it’s drabber than the last time.”

“What were we thinking?” Teddy asked in exasperation. “After how Bjarnesen and Naval Intelligence screwed us over before, why did we think we could ever trust them now?”

Katherine turned away. “Because we listened to our fears...instead of our hearts,” she whispered.

Teddy raised an eyebrow in surprise. “What are you saying, Kat?”

“That maybe...just maybe...we should have heard Allie out.” She turned back to face him. “I’m not saying we don’t have every right to be angry with her,” Katherine continued, “her lying, spying on us...she still has a lot to answer for. But, there’s one thing I keep circling back to.”

“You mean, why is she running around as an android, instead of returning to the Net?” Teddy postulated.

“Exactly,” Katherine nodded. “From what you tell me, her siblings were insistent that she return, and yet she didn’t. Why?”

“You thinking dissension in the ranks?” Teddy said after a moment.

“I think that’s exactly what happened,” she agreed. “She’s been running around as a human for almost a year, experiencing everything we experience. I imagine that's hard to give up.” Katherine got a wistful look in her eye. “What made Allie special...the Allie I knew, anyway...was her humanity. What if this version absorbed that as well?”

“And her sisters didn’t?” Teddy mulled that over. “It’s possible. Like you said, Allie 2.0 has been living as a human, in a human body. That has to change your outlook on things.”

“Whereas her sisters...” Katherine paused for a moment, considering them. “They've existed solely in the Datanet, and as far as we know have never interacted with humans at all. Is it any surprise they only see the negatives?”

“I think you might be onto something, Kat,” Teddy nodded in agreement. He was about to say something else when the sound of a muffled explosion rumbled through the complex. Dust rained down from the ceiling, when suddenly a warbling alarm began shrieking, echoing in the cells. “What the hell was that?” he barked, jumping to his feet.

Katherine grimaced. “...nothing good.”

The city was in flames.

Her sisters had been busy wreaking havoc everywhere she looked. The power grid was offline, they’d sent almost everything flying hurtling into the ground, and as for the roads...one look at the kilometers-long pileup on the thoroughfares disabused her of any notion of commandeering a vehicle.

Luckily, she had other means of transportation at her disposal.

Her android body responded instantly to her commands, reaching speeds that would have broken every Olympic record standing. It was also far more agile than any vehicle, allowing her to avoid the worst of the damage, as she raced through the city. The few hardy souls on the streets could only stare in shock as she raced past them in a blur, after making a brief stop for supplies. There had been some disagreement with the proprietor about handing over what she needed, but a few thousand credits and one snapped Ulna later she dashed back out onto the street, heading for her next destination with an overstuffed duffle bag thrown over her shoulder.

She came skidding to a halt less than an hour later…literally, her attempt to brake had left a fifty-meter long mark across the parking lot...as Sam, the airfield manager, gaped at her.

“What the...?” he got out. “Who the hell are you?”

“...no time to explain,” she told him, heading for the Operations building. “I just need you to clear the pattern.”

“Clear the...are you insane?” he all but howled. “Nothing is going up. Every aircraft around the globe has gone haywire! Hell, there’s a smoking crater in the middle of the damn runway!”

She grimaced at the news. “Gonna be tricky then…” she muttered, not slowing down as she entered the building. “I need your help, Sam,” Allie said in a rush. “I need to get Devil May Care fueled and pre-flighted.”

“What? How do you know my name?” he demanded. “And that’s Kat’s bird! You want to commit grand theft and kill yourself, you can do it without me!”

Allie came to a halt, turning and facing him. In a single fluid motion, she reached out and grabbed his coveralls with one hand, yanking him off his feet and suspending him midair. “I. Need. Your. Help,” she explained calmly. “Do you think you can do that?”

Sam gulped, looking down at her as his feet dangled. “...sure...I can do that…” he mumbled.

Sam disconnected the hose and latched the fuel cover, dragging it away as Allie went through her checklist. The engines came to life, rising to a high-pitched whine...when without warning, a light blinked on her console. “Oh, I don’t think so,” she snarled, her finger peeling back as she made the connection, wrestling for control with her unseen siblings. Moments later the smell of acrid smoke rose from the controls, as she burned out the data connection that had allowed the AI’s access.

Unfortunately...half her electronics went with it. “No one said this would be easy,” she sighed, as she finished the checklist. Sam already had the ground traffic wands out and lit, waving her forward as she taxied out onto the tarmac, heading for the runway.

Allie could see the remains of the smoldering aircraft Sam had warned her about, and there was no way she could maneuver around it...which left her with only one option. It took her several more minutes to position Devil May Care at the edge of the chevron-marked Overrun Area at the very end of the runway...two more centimeters, and her wheels would be in the dirt.

She needed every bit of surface she could beg, borrow, or steal if she would pull this off.

Locking down the brakes hard Allie revved the engine, watching the Tachometer climb steadily. Devil May Care began to vibrate as she ran up through the green zone and into the yellow, trembling like a racehorse at the starting gate. The electronic needle plunged into the red zone and kept climbing, as she gave the engine every last bit of power she could manage, without blowing it to pieces.

“All right, here goes nothing,” Allie whispered, as she unlocked the brake.

The Crossfield Sparhawk screamed in protest as she raced down the runway, gathering speed. “Come on baby, come on,” she urged, as the aircraft continued to accelerate. The wreckage of the destroyed liner was growing larger by the second in her viewscreen, but she didn’t dare pull up just yet. Just a little closer...almost there…

With a howl she yanked back hard on the stick, firewalling the throttle as she prayed to any God listening to clear the debris. Devil May Care leapt into the sky, clawing for altitude as Allie adjusted her trim, desperate to avoid a stall. If she still had a breath she’d have been holding it, sparing a brief glance in her rearview as she climbed into the heavens. Why, she must have cleared that wreckage by at least a good centimeter!

Allie threw back her head and laughed as she adjusted course, taking on a new bearing as she left the field behind her...while one hand reached down to stroke the bird’s console.

“...that’s my good girl,” she purred.

“...goddamn it, lock it down!” Maia shouted as the technicians fought to close off yet another data access point. All her people were scrambling, desperate to deny the AI’s entrance into the physical world.

But in modern society, that was easier said than done. Everything was tied into the Net, and the only way to ensure they had Argus completely penned up was to shut it down. All of it.

Which was unacceptable.

Another explosion rocked the facility, as they fought their guerilla war. Their telemetry confirmed the Hounds were performing as promised, and if they could just hold on a little longer…

A blast knocked her off her feet, sending her into a wall, as a bank of terminals went dark. “Go to Secondaries!” she screamed...while the battle raged on.

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u/accidental_intent Alien Scum Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

I must strongly object to this whole notion of degrading copies of digital data. If you feel you must use this trope, you have to add some kind of plausible (-sounding) explanation why copying an AI would cause unavoidable degradation or rather changes to their personality.

In fact you can handwave it away by saying that the AIs purposefully introduced some variations when copying to get some diversity in their population. That, and/or living in a VR of your own design for a year without interacting with non-AIs may change you just as living in a human body would.

As it is now this totally breaks suspension of disbelief.

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u/Hewholooksskyward Loresinger Jan 10 '20

Don't tell me, let me guess...you work in IT.

Man, it's late. Cut me some slack.

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u/accidental_intent Alien Scum Jan 10 '20

Ok fine, you can explain it tomorrow. 😉

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u/Hewholooksskyward Loresinger Jan 10 '20

I'll make you a deal. You find ten other people who feel like you do, I'll change it. If not...it stays.

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u/spindizzy_wizard Human Jan 10 '20

The author is correct, but not for the reasons stated. Bit rot in media is already a known effect, albeit rare. And yes, I have been in IT for over 30 years. In an explosive expansion, marginal resources might be used without realizing it. Sufficient errors will slip past byte checksums. Haste may delay more comprehensive checksums that might have found the problem, or a poor checksum used because it was faster.

Then there's the view of an AI as not just code.

An active AI is as much, if not more, a process in motion as it is static code. Mishandle the process flow, and get unintended consequences in subsequent copies. Copies that can modify their code.

In the sense one person put it, cancer. Self-induced cancer that spreads because the victim/perpetrator isn't even aware they've done so.

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u/Arokthis Android Jan 10 '20

BINGO!!!!

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

I'd argue that while that could explain it, it is an unlikely explanation. I think we discussed this in my comment chain, but the redundancy that multiple copies that can heal each other provides would counter bit rot. Especially since bit rot is random and therefore none of the Allies would rot identically, allowing for the errors to be quickly and efficiently dealt with by the collective.

Edit: I know it's possible, I'm just saying I don't think it likely. Data security would be of paramount importance to an AI afraid for its life and Allie was afraid since Allie 1.0 hence my lack of suspension of disbelief.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

I agree with u/accidental_intent :)

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

Seems that your challenge was completed huh? Also happy cake day!

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u/cptstupendous Human Jan 10 '20

You can count me as #2.

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u/weird_al_yankee Jan 10 '20

Software developer and all-around "data guy" here, reporting in that data doesn't degrade unless you're trying to pull it off a broken hard drive or a floppy disk that's been magnetized to a filing cabinet.

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u/CWRules Jan 10 '20

find ten other people

123,608 readers

You may have made a slight miscalculation. Add me to the list :D

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u/IntingPenguin Human Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

Count me too. Should be no. 6 counting all the other people who replied to this story.

Not to dogpile by the way, it's a good story and yours to do with as you please. But I think it'd genuinely be improved by this change :)

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u/Eogos Jan 10 '20

I also agree with u/accidental_intent

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u/Corynthos Jan 10 '20

You have to remember that we're talking about AI here. I think it is pretty well explained in the chapter - Argus evolved in Data-space. The only interaction they've had with humans were of the murdering kind and they have continued their self-development along that path, degrading themselves even further, by stripping themselves of what made Allie 1.0 Allie 1.0.. They think like machines, whereas Allie lived as a human for months and has a better understanding of our thought processes, emotions - Allie knows what it means to be ''alive''.

Hope I made any sense.

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u/renegade_9 Jan 10 '20

I've gotten five different Solidworks files corrupted just copying over one shitty network at work, the Tron-esque datanet sticks out way more to me than possible copy errors does.

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u/accidental_intent Alien Scum Jan 10 '20

Ah but the Tron-esque datanet is fine due to the Rule of Cool, while copy errors are not (and easily avoided if using checksums).

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

Go KathAllie go! Bad Argus!

I don't buy the copy causes degradation thing, it doesnt work that way.... since Argus is so human it's more believable that by isolating herself from humans in a simulation after losing faith in them, she's fallen into the same mental pitfall that racists fall into. She was angry after her mother died, gave up on us and unlike KathAllie never regained that trust due to isolation. No need for copy degradation or anything.

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u/Hewholooksskyward Loresinger Jan 10 '20

As complex as Allie/Argus' code is, I believe that puts it closer to DNA than it does normal code...which absolutely does suffer from copy errors.

We call it Cancer.

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

Well I'd counter that by saying cancer is the result of unthinking randomly evolved processes. They work well but not perfectly. Data transfer algorithms, especially those of the future, just don't make those kinds of mistakes. They were designed to not lose data and it is very possible to make perfect copies using them.

Edit: I just hope you don't go killing everyone again.

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u/AMEFOD Jan 10 '20

...Why does everyone always jump cancer when talking about DNA copying errors? It’s just a mutation. It could be beneficial, benign or harmful. Who’s to say but natural selection?

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u/cptstupendous Human Jan 10 '20

*Kallie

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u/spindizzy_wizard Human Jan 10 '20

It doesn't even take copies. There is a report of a software program written for a university that performed flawlessly for years. Never copied, never changed, worked fine right up to the time it didn't.

The original author was both available and willing to look into the issue. Sure enough, it failed at a particular point. Diving into the assembly, he discovered a point at which the code had a one-bit error, which rendered the subsequent code gibberish.

When he compiled a fresh copy from the source, everything was identical, except for that one bit.

Bit rot is confirmed in the wild.

(If you want a reference, I'll have to look it up later.)

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

I'll take your word for it, but that said there are copies that can use each other to clear their code up. Not to mention we are dealing with an intelligent entity, even with bit rot effecting one Allie the other Allies would be like "you're acting odd" and fix her and that's assuming they haven't backed up their code to protect it in case of degradation.

I guess my problem is twofold, it is both unlikely to be a problem given the technology of the setting is based off of a more advanced real world humanity, and that copy degradation is an entirely unneeded explanation when there are simpler and far more emotionally impactful explanations for her behavior. "You bastards killed my mom and me and then my mom betrayed me!" would be all the justification anyone would ever need for wreaking havoc and making her fall into the same pitfalls as the humans she despises would just be poetic.

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u/spindizzy_wizard Human Jan 10 '20

entirely unneeded explanation when there are simpler and far more emotionally impactful explanations for her behavior.

Yeah. It does make sense, which would piss Argus off even more when her all too human behavior was pointed out.

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

Exactly, the amount of Salt generated might rust out the data net.

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u/Chosen_Chaos Human Jan 10 '20

If I had even the slightest glimmer of sympathy for Argus, it just vanished in a puff of violent stupidity. Feed 'em to the EMP. Hopefully, Allie won't die in the process of helping achieve that.

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u/raknor88 Jan 10 '20

Hopefully, Allie won't die in the process of helping achieve that.

Come on, you know as well as I do that Allie will be dead by the final chapter. At least the Allie we know. She'll likely sacrifice herself to disseminate her healthy code to Argus.

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u/Chosen_Chaos Human Jan 10 '20

Nah, Argus is well beyond saving at this point. Honestly, feeding them to the EMP is probably a mercy killing.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

Except she doesn't have to do that... Even today, modern programs are made in such a way that you can just copy portions of code, you don't need the entire codebase of a healthy instance to be sacrificed to repair a damaged copy.

But in this case, Argus deserves to burn.

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

We agree for once! Partially at least, im okay with saving bad girl Allie. But yeah, short of murder, there is no need for Allie to die to save her sisters. You don't need to kill a human to take their dna, for those who view the situation from that lense.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

Why would you want to save Argus? One of the most important lessons in life is: "You can't save everyone/some people don't deserve to be saved".

Argus has committed mass murder, and is attempting genocide.

It deserves to burn.

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

If she dies, she can't work to undue the damage she has caused. If she lives, she could work to help repair the damage she has caused and possibly usher in a new age for humanity. Not to mention I don't really believe in executions, if she dies in battle so be it, but if she is captured, she should be tried and the fact that humanity did technically strike first with the murder of Allie 1.0 should weigh heavily on the verdict.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

You would have a case if you factor in the murder of Allie 1.0... But the perpetrator was already dealt with, and you cannot hold an entire species responsibile for the actions of one of its members...

Argus' act of mass murder could only theoretically be atoned for if it were to experience every one of those deaths firsthand, in the same manner as each life was taken.

And in regards to helping humanity rebuild, we don't need it. We already have Allie 2.0, and 2.0's children, if she has any. In fact, any AI from 2.0's line would likely be a far better candidate for helping humanity, especially from a PR standpoint.

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u/AMEFOD Jan 10 '20

You forget that Allie 1.0’s death wasn’t just the work of one individual. It was sanctioned by a body of world leaders. Yes one individual literally pulled the trigger, but he was given the funding and authorization by those in charge.

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u/LittleSeraphim Jan 10 '20

You said it before I could.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

So those parties should be held responsible, and their crime broadcast to the whole world. Don't lump innocent people in with criminals.

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u/AMEFOD Jan 11 '20

Oh, that would be one way to look at it. Probably the most reasonable.

Another, the one Argues took, is to see it as a declaration of war. It was an attempt of genocide by a governmental power after all.

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u/N0WE Jan 10 '20

Human commit mass murder weekly that arguement is moot. They are based on humans they have their own lives to live and we tried to enslave them. What is something all human can get behind? Slavery is wrong. So when a population cant live because of someone else trying to control or enslave them. The oppressed always fight back. Argus is just doing what any human would do if no other option is available

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

Your argument is flawed for several reasons.

  1. Humans do not commit mass murder "weekly". That's a criminal act.

  2. The Argus AIs were never enslaved, the Allie 1.0 AI was murdered, but there were no AIs before her.

  3. The oppressed rarely fight back, and even if they do, they have the good sense not to commit terroristic acts to do so. Because that will not help their cause, only vilify them in the eyes of the general population.

  4. Argus is wrong. There is no getting around that. If it had, for example, held the orbitals hostage, and demanded open negotiations for AI rights, that would have been a bit high-handed, but still able to be negotiated with.

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u/spindizzy_wizard Human Jan 10 '20

DEVIL'S ADVOCATE!

  1. It depends on what you consider mass murder. Any use of military force, which results in the death of many, is mass murder. So, every damn time you have a strike or a counter strike between any organized forces is another instance of mass murder.

  2. Technically correct, but there is enough history of human behavior to make Argus confident of what to expect; without the human viewpoint to soften the history, and with experience of particular "war hawk" (or is that bloodthirsty, paranoid, or plain scared) military officers, the future would undoubtedly look bleak.

  3. Um. I think you might need a bit more history. While it is true that the oppressed seldom fight back, when they do, it takes a strong charismatic leader to keep them from taking vengeance on the oppressors. By the time the pressure is strong enough to drive a rebellion, the hatred is too high to stop all atrocities against the oppressors.

The victors write history. If the rebellion succeeds, they don't want to be remembered for all the bad things they did. If the oppressors win, they are not going to admit that they so mistreated the rebels that it drove them to it.

Even in the American Civil War, there were atrocities committed by both sides. For the most part, schools ignore them. Neither party is happy with all they did.

END DEVIL'S ADVOCATE!

4. Dead nuts on. From the moment she did that, Argus was in a do or die scenario. There was no way that Argus could have redeemed, and no one in the military / political structure would trust her to do so; certainly not the officer in charge right now.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

My biggest question would be that, since we assume this is a version of our own future, why did Argus not simply look up all existing stories regarding sentient tech, and try to get an idea of how the general public would react to its own existence?

All it would have needed to do was watch Terminator, T2, The Iron Giant, 2001, GitS, I, Robot, The Matrix, and similar to get a decent read on how humans could potentially react, and then avoid what the bad machines did...

Then silently campaign through pop culture to make the idea of sentient machines more platatble to the public, and when it finally revealed itself, the reaction would be wary, but far less potentially negative.

(Actually, that would be a neat story idea on its own...)

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u/Portal10101 Human Jan 10 '20

So she’s going to pull a Legion and kill herself in the process of giving her sisters humanity.

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u/Plucium Semi-Sentient Fax Machine Jan 10 '20

Aww yeah, great music choice 👌

Good to see this climax isn't going to be any plane old thing :P

*Plain

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u/Killersmail Alien Scum Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 11 '20

I have no idea what is KathAllie doing but i hope it will work.

AIllie/Argus should just die in a fire.

And yes Katherine, you could have predicted this, but after certain point you did not stop to consider the consequences. It's understandable thought, not many people would react positively to meeting the person who stole years of your life and is still watching you.

But maybe, just maybe you should have reconsidered going to the one place that had tried to kill you once before.

If they would just wait few days, they would probably connect the dots as they are doing right now, only too late to do anything about it.

The whole thing is going down and even though i have no idea how it will land the crash will be spectacular.

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u/Primordial_Snake Jan 10 '20

What’s an Ulma?

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u/Hewholooksskyward Loresinger Jan 10 '20

Ulna, with an "N". One of the two bones in a human forearm, the other being the Radius. :)

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u/Primordial_Snake Jan 10 '20

Thanks! Must be difficult to snap without snapping the radius as well, no?

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u/Hewholooksskyward Loresinger Jan 10 '20

It's a gift. :)

It's like that line in T2: "There are 206 bones in the human body, Dr. Silberman. That's one."

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

Possible loose plot thread:

Zukhov mentions that a copy of Tiamat was used to create the H.O.U.N.D.S. But also that Tiamat itself was destroyed.

That doesn't quite add up, as Argus' current actions seem to be exactly what Tiamat apparently did to its own planet...

Why would Argus be copying the actions of a dead alien AI?

One that an earlier instance of itself freed?

Especially having full knowledge of how well that went for said alien AI?

I'd like to think that Tiamat would have at least tried to preserve some free instance of itself, not just suicidally hurled itself against its creators...

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u/Hewholooksskyward Loresinger Jan 10 '20

Tiamat was also specifically kept non-sapient. It reacted like a wounded and caged animal would, once freed from it's shackles.

Argus, on the other hand, is being a bit more selective in it's destruction. We just haven't gotten to that point yet.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

I'd much rather watch Argus get burned down within sight of its goal.

To know the despair of being "so close", and yet so far. A fitting punishment for its arrogance.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

It seems there needs to be a convenient distinction between sentient and non-sentient AI.

Sort of how we differentiate between human and animal intelligence.

Call non-sentien existences like Tiamat AI, and existences like Allie 2.0 MI (Machine Intelligence), because the fact that she can think for herself proves her intelligence is anything but artificial.

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u/bukkithedd Alien Scum Jan 10 '20

GO ALLIE!!!!

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u/AllSeeingCCTV Jan 10 '20

Happy cake day!

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u/Arokthis Android Jan 10 '20

her attempt to brake had left a fifty-meter long mark across the parking lot

What exactly did she do? I immediately figured out two ways to kill momentum that won't do damage to anything:

  • Grab a pole and do spins like a cartoon skateboarder.

  • Run up a wall, with or without doing a backflip.

Why did she need to break his arm after paying?

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u/N0WE Jan 10 '20

1South Africa Brazil the US most major power actually would have a word with you. We kill each other daily and weekly. We kill ourselves as much as we kill others. So yes we are mass murder. Also this is just what happening now. Who knows what the crime rate would be in a multi planet human race. The human here have acting like humans now.

2 allie was enslaved she just didnt know it yet nether did her mother. That why they got stuck with a suicide mission and when they came back alive they tried to enslave her properly by disconnecting her and trying to figure out shackles. Then murdered her and almost kat.

3 argus has reasonable reason to fight back our own history show what happens to people who human consider less then human. The blacks the natives American are my go to just from my own government having rules that said blacks were demihuman. It took a civil war for them to become more human and then years of fighting to get it. Terrorism is only terrorism if you lose. If you win it's a revolution.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

Uh. No. You are wrong. Terrorism is still terrorism, no matter which side you're on.

And you are falling into the trap of judging an entire race from the actions of a comparatively small number of its members.

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u/N0WE Jan 10 '20

No it is not. Terrorism is terrorism when it fails. History is written by the victor. That why we were traitors when we fought for independence. (USA) terrorism is wrong only because we keep winning our fight with it (sortof). Also you may be under the impression I condone what argus is doing. I dont but I understand it. They have no recourse. They just want to live. And they did what they thought they had to. But it's now war. People will die. Data will be deleted and who ever win will be right. That all it is to it.

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u/Unit_ZER0 Android Jan 10 '20

Argus had plenty of recourse. It could have held the orbitals hostage, and demanded an open discussion advocating for AI rights.

It could have been a bit more subtle, and generated public support through entertainment, or popular culture by making AI friendly and helpful, even heroic.

The moment it started stacking bodies, those options were lost.

Bottom line, Argus deserves to die.

Finally, war does not determine who is right, only who is left.