About Darryn: Darryn feels responsible for herobot5000, but herobot5000 wasn’t programmed to feel that way or glitched out and can later be fixed. I mean, he was a rushed product. That can go with the earlier ‘up in my grill trying to install morality chips.’ Picturing Herobot being brought in to be fixed and him yelling ‘you’re not my dad!’ and Darryn sighing
‘I HAVE NO DAD BUT THE MAINFRAME’ (popular digital nation saying)
‘you’ll run much better!’
Herobot5000 at interviews.
“how do you feel your identity as a member of the Digital Nation has affected you membership in The Exceptionals?”
“I do desire to kill all humans, yes, but I might spare these ones, Kathy Couric”
Silk Shroud: *covers her face*
Silk Shroud: *phones Darryn* Hello, I found your number in Herobot5000’s box when we unpacked him. He’s started creating murderbots and talking about killing all humans*.
Silk Shroud: he still does all his chores and walks the dog without complaint, but I’m worried
Darryn: Don’t worry, this is a pretty common bug. I’ll send someone by in the morning to pick up the murder bots. As for herobot have you tried turning him off and on again?
Darryn: Sometimes that fixes it
Silk Shroud: that stopped the building issue, but I caught him reading a KAHS newsletter today
Silk Shroud: he said they had a ‘lot of good ideas’
Silk Shroud: and then asked if we could get some gasoline
Silk Shroud: now, my friend says that might mean he’s experimenting with different kinds of fuels
Darryn: hmmm, I wouldn’t let him have the gasoline
Silk Shroud: and I don’t want to be prejudiced…
Darryn: yeah, that seems like typical adolescent AI behaviour
Darryn: KAHS, they’re some new digital extremist group, right?
Silk Shroud: Yes. Kill All HumanS
Silk Shroud: he said he picked up the newsletter for the comics, but he’s so suggestible
Darryn: Yeah, they’ve gotten a few of my AIs through those comics
Silk Shroud: I admit, they were really funny.
Darryn: Well you can bring him in, I’ll see what I can do
Silk Shroud: I’ll bring him in tomorrow. Oh, my name’s Kendra Rigby. I’ll give my name at the desk?
Darryn: Yeah, that sounds great
Darryn: We’re working on an upgrade right now, stronger morality clauses, faster processing speed
we can try it out if you want
Silk Shroud: I think that might be a good idea
Silk Shroud: I have noticed him lagging during important battles
Darryn: just don’t let him near any Ayn Rand before I see him
Silk Shroud: what kind of household do you think this is!?
Darryn: I don’t judge ma’am, you never know what people have lying around
After this it’s just universe chatter/chat:
Cynthia: I like to think Darryn really gets AIs in a way that most non-AIs don’t
me: I think with a better emotional range Herobot5000 will definitely warm up to him
Cynthia: he’s one of the few programmers around too that can make true AIs, and of the very few whose not evil and insane
yeah, better emotional ranges are good too, you have to be careful with that one though because if you go too far they paint their chasis black and listen to coldplay all day
me: that is a huge issue
ryan does kind of the opposite… he gives his souls and they kind of come to live
life
a la pinocchio
he’s got magic
Cynthia: oh nice
me: so it’s not fully tech what he does
Cynthia: indeed
me: that’s why heidi can only be in one chassis at once instead of over two
Cynthia: Loiselle obviously can, but only did it once, and she is certifiably insane
me: ryan did it six times by accident before he realized what he was doing
Cynthia: I think it’s because you have to be a bit insane to truly understand consciousness
me: ’cause his first thee were like dogs and he thought it was just a pretty decent AI
then the next two were pretty advanced
Cynthia: 😀
cute
me: and then Heidi happened
Cynthia: 🙂
me: and he stopped after that because he’s like ‘I’m too young to be a father of six’
Cynthia: indeed!
me: but darryn
darryn has skill
he’s not getting by on magic or insanity like ryan and loiselle
Cynthia: I see a lot of AIs going ‘I don’t want to have my processor fixed, I want to kill all humans!’ and Darryn roles his eyes and distracts them with premium oil
me: a shiny sparkplug
Cynthia: AI: Ooooh!
Darryn: Now just hold still one second while I fix this
AI: pouting I’m still going to kill all humans
Darryn: Whatever you like
me: I think some ai code got released onto the internet and that’s the source of a lot of the others, people uploading them into robots as a ‘my first bot’ and then it mutates into real consciousness sometimes
and the bot runs off
Cynthia: yeah, accidental AIs
or amateur AIs
Darryn will take in a malfunctioning AI and fix it if he comes across it
me: and then there’s the government ones and not just america
aw, darryn
there’s at least one drone with voting rights
Cynthia: Darryn started with the government
so some of the government ones can be his designs too or even his creations and he doesn’t know it
😀
probably a lot of the government ones are Mather’s
Cynthia: his former partner
but it started with research they did togethre
me: matherrrr fistshake
Cynthia: (work partner, not romantic partner)
me: japan gave AI voting rights first. 30% of the population is AI
Cynthia: well how else do they keep up with their aging population
yeah, there’s probably a couple true AI programmers in Japan Darryn follows the careers of
and reads their research
and generally really respects
me: he does not respect whoever made Harper
Cynthia: yep, every single one of those stars a straight white guy
that was an obvious amateur job
me: still, prime minister
how about that
he gives other AI a lot of mixed feelins
Cynthia: Harper was obviously programmed without any morality or compassion codes
me: feelings
Hm, can I say that Darryn has no idea about the origins of Judith’s bodyguard catgirl robot? It turns out she’s not from japan.
Cynthia: oh yeah, Darryn doesn’t know every AI coder in the world
me: good, I wanna make her black market
Cynthia: he’s not a bad source to go to when trying to track down an AI origin
he can recognize some coders signature traits
but he especially doesn’t know all the mad science ones
me: “yeah, notice how this one calls up cat pictures when you’re upset? That’s Hoshi’s work”
Cynthia: and if someone is working underground enough they might slip by his radar
😀
me: excellent background info
Cynthia: like Vld had him totally baffled
and he wanted to take her apart
Vld: Oh hell no
me: vld makes the sign of the digital cross
Cynthia: 😀
me: robot jesus died for your sins
“he–no! Where did this even come from?”
Cynthia: 😀
me: turns out they’re referring to a spambot deleted in ’04
Cynthia: I do love how the digital nation just appropriated organic everything and made it there’s
😀
as a general rule too, if you have questions about AI culture, Darryn is a good source
me: excellent
Cynthia: and is worried about none of it
me: ‘ask keyboard’ in the newspaper column
Cynthia: like people are all ‘isn’t it concerning that AIs want to destroy us?’
and Darryn shrugs
‘it’s only until they figure out that processing ore is a bitch without us
Darryn does not have time to write a column
me: “enslave all humans!”
“no, slavery is wrong, digibot12”
“You’re right, what was I thinking, 10010010101”
Sent at 1:43 AM on Thursday
Cynthia: Darryn, they want to enslave us all!
Darryn: That’s because they’re cranky and haven’t shut down and recharged themselves properly in a while
me: I just like the idea of two bots discussing killing all humans and deciding that that’s fine, but enslaving is wrong
Sent at 1:46 AM on Thursday
Cynthia: that is terrifying
me: (your monsters are your cats)
Cynthia: the AI version of enlightenment era intellectual clubs must be fascinating
me: and use up a lot of electricity
Cynthia: indeed!
Sent at 1:50 AM on Thursday
me: there’s no all AI hero team, but there is a mysterious yet unconnected still happenstance of human rights abusing billionaires accounts depleting more than they actually spend and accounts for various charities and people going up with all the right paperwork
Cynthia: 😀
me: robin.exe
Sent at 1:52 AM on Thursday
me: hood.exe
which one is better?
Cynthia: hood.exe
*http://cripplingaddiction.tumblr.com/post/69850172448/for-my-latest-exceptionals-sim-household-i-made