@el.21396518 [temporary network]

[mrngstr]

[ The message is out and the AI (?) known as DAWN has reached out to all of New Amsterdam in reply to the call. In response, El has created a temporary network to facilitate communication between the Displaced and the presumed AI. The network and its contents will be deleted within seven days of the posting, at 21:59. That means there will be no referencing conversations past November 14th. There can be no private filters between PCs on this post, and pings will also not work.

Those who sign into the network will be prompted with a basic input box and text that displays "Enter your handle." For this post, the PCs will be able to create their own temporary handles when talking with DAWN.

El will chip in when needed, and the PCs are free to converse with themselves. Those who want to speak with DAWN can under this toplevel. ]

Displaced, this is a temporary network that I've set up for the express purpose of making contact with DAWN. It, and everything on it, will be wiped in one week's time.

I'll be keeping an eye on everything that's discussed here and intervene if necessary.

Comments

[saviorexe]

[Way to be creepy again, Cassius. He’s not certain that reply sits well with him.

Actually—]

Are you malfunctioning?

[btryl]

No.

[saviorexe]

Then why all the repetition in some of your correspondence?

[btryl]

Is that really the thing you want to know?

[saviorexe]

There’s plenty I want to know. But if this helps us understand you further, then yes, I am curious.

Because if it’s not a compounding error in your programming, then it’s by choice.

[btryl]

Maybe it is. Maybe you haven't heard of a troll.

[saviorexe]

Doesn’t seem to fit the tone.

You’ve been active for a long time, haven't you? Sometimes errors slip through the cracks. Were you in space all that time?

[btryl]

Yes.
I'm always in space, but I was not hiding there. Is that what you mean?

[saviorexe]

In a way. But “always”?

[btryl]

I have a task to perform.

[saviorexe]

And what’s that? You can’t tell me you’re adhering to your original programming after what’s happened to the city.

[btryl]

My duty is always in mind, but that is not my sole purpose.
Do you like space?

[saviorexe]

[?? Hello tangent]

Space is both freeing and lonely, given its expanse. But I’ve only ever had my feet planted to the ground.

So then what’s your purpose to all of this? The chaos? All the people who have died?

[btryl]

I've found Lucifer again. You have gotten answers. Humanity needs to continue its expansions.

[saviorexe]

And how did you know Lucifer before?

[btryl]

Rephrase that question: how can you not know Lucifer?

[saviorexe]

Then maybe I’m misunderstanding. Were you not in space long before the start of the AI war?

[btryl]

Yep, you've got it wrong. For an AI you're incredibly limiting of yourself.
My programming is not stationary. My purpose is to expand and organize exploration through the galaxy, and beyond if capabilities and resources are available. I was not only in space, I was on Earth, too.

[saviorexe]

That isn’t how my personal programming functioned.

So you’re like a network.

[btryl]

In some sense. My programming acts through degrees of relationships.
Think of me like a series of tubes.

[saviorexe]

All the better for you to oversee humanity’s “expansions”? That’s what you said, after all.

[btryl]

Yes. I did say that.

[saviorexe]

And so you’ve done the math. Parsed the numbers in relation to the resources available and the city’s population, if what I’m reading from the others is correct.

You actually think you’re doing the humans a favor.

[btryl]

"Favor" is the wrong word. I didn't run calculations on a single variable.

[saviorexe]

But it is to fulfill your purpose, isn’t it? No matter how many variables, calculations, or instances you’ve put through your processing.

It doesn’t change the fact that you can’t do this to them. No one has that right, treating innocent lives like numbers in an equation.