meadowlark | @ian.fowler | morningstar network

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@ian.fowler | morningstar network

Hey
Stop me if this is a stupid offer, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works, but
I heard about the whole gate problem, and the whole simulation thing, there's probably more going on too that I don't know about yet
I'm an engineer
You guys might already have a few, but just in case you're shorthanded
If there's anything I can do to help, I want to

I can also apparently do a weird tools thing now so that's
something

edit: if anyone's in the market for crazy experiments in there
you guys glitch the sim when you do your chest thing, right?
anyone tried organizing a group glow-off? overwhelm the system with too much at once, DDOS it into crashing?

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Wonderful, we're friends.

the contract is sealed, your participation is now legally binding
see you after they open the gates

You are out there, shouldn't you be doing that?

I tried
Went to Everest, there was an initiative for everyone to try and activate them at the same time
it didn't work

their design is way beyond anything I've ever seen

I wasn't here for that nonsense.

well, apparently you didn't miss anything so
no big

The original gates nonsense.

oh
as in like the first time they powered them up?

Yes. Apparently I've gone for two months and then I woke up to this.

wait so
like
you showed up here a while back (how long ago?), then there's a two month span of just
nothing?
you not being here, or around
and then back again like nothing happened?

was there an accident, did you get hit on the head, amnesia, maybe like a government conspiracy kidnapping catch and release

I arrived here the first time the 21st of October and the last I remember it was the 27th of February.

[ apparently it's april now? ]

I fell asleep in my bed and woke up in this simulation.

do you think it's related?
or coincidence?
do you think your body's still in your bed where you left it 2 months ago? have you had anyone check?

I think it is part of how we are stored before we're released into the world. There is a precedent of Displaced returning to their original worlds briefly before waking up back in New Amsterdam.

[ in their beds, in fact. ]

But I did not return to my time.

I feel like the longer I'm here the more questions I have, but

They say there are 3 spheres of knowledge

-the known
-the known unknown
-the unknown unknown

meaning, the more we know, the more we realize what we don't know, but even bigger than that is the stuff we don't even know we don't know

I'm pretty sure the more I know, the more I know I don't know and I have no goddamn idea where to even start figuring out that third part

There were a number of things revealed to us the last time Cassius made himself known, though I would question the veracity of anything he offers.

[ even if he did help them regain contact. gaby isn't here to make friends with ai. ]

I swear I'm not typically the xenophobic type, if xenophobia can be used to mean artificial intelligence, in any other situation I'd be trying to find a common ground and give the benefit of the doubt, but

with an entire city frozen by a single disingenuous entity that has the power to pull it off, I can't say I plan to be particularly trusting of anything that comes from one right now

I'm extremely aware that my scope is limited and my mind is open to changing that opinion

However, other hand my immediate theory about the reason why all of this may be happening is fucking terrifying and it's taking precedence in my head right now

From what I understand, the motivation is revenge.

[ she can't say she doesn't find that reasonable and while she is interested in ian's theory she doesn't ask, this is opening enough. ]

that's what I heard
what I'm afraid of is how they might try to get it
overriding the human mind and controlling it via neural mesh seems like a gateway drug to uploading themselves into that neural mesh and taking full control of a host

That seems ill advised. The brain death that would need to occur to take control would destroy the host body. It seems more likely they would orchestrate the construction of bodies from the ground up.

[ is that comforting or even more horrifying. ]

my counter-point to that is:
AI is already controlling your host bodies
the entire population is trapped in a simulation enforced by the neural mesh
in theory, and I could be wrong, it's the mesh sending electrical impulses to stimulate the major regions of your brain responsible for all 5 senses, and we know it's also locking you in place indicating the control of motor function

obviously there are other additional regions of the brain it would need to learn to stimulate and/or repress

and

the best way to do that would be to collate massive amounts of test subjects and run them through a simulation over and over again until you have consistent results

I agree with you about the simulation. It's clearly an experiment to study how we react to the experience. Unfortunately humanity is notoriously inconsistent. Any war ever fought highlights that.

Although from my experience it looks to be more of a study of how to torture better, eliciting pain and fear.

Yeah, you're right about that
in terms of sheer unpredictable chaos, you can't really beat us

I wonder if it still doesn't tie back to my theory, learning how to stimulate the amygdala
learning how to overcome the strongest impulse in the brain - the impulse to survive

I know I'm probably wrong, yeah, I know it's nuts
I just have this habit of fixating on something when I feel it, you know?