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Alice Grove MCDT - January 2015

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DSL:
My current take is that Gavia and Ardent are just a couple of bored and spoiled kids with an immature regard (if this is not a redundant statement) of the world around them, including the "primitives." Ardent thought he could play with the zoo animals and Gavia is -- as older but not adult siblings will do -- taking her role of older sibling a little too seriously.

ysth:
Ardent asked someone who apparently had physical access to a transporter and they were able to hack it; how is this tricking anybody?

BenRG:

--- Quote from: ysth on 13 Jan 2015, 08:16 ---Ardent asked someone who apparently had physical access to a transporter and they were able to hack it; how is this tricking anybody?
--- End quote ---

My guess that the trick was to do so without alerting the Praesis in charge of him and Gavia to his actions. As Alice points out, that is supposedly impossible, which is what inspires my theory that Ardent and Gavia's misadventures to date have been entirely with the Praeses' knowledge and that they are following some bizarre agenda that only a centuries-old AI could formulate.

Neko_Ali:
A lot of things that are 'supposedly impossible' are that way only because nobody challenges that assumption.

Zebediah:
Exactly. It's only supposed to be impossible because the Praeses is supposed to prevent it. And I'm going to throw out the possibility that this isn't some incomprehensible plan by the Praeses, but rather that it is suffering from the AI equivalent of senility. Time and entropy have degraded it to the point where it can't fulfill its duties any more. Which is kind of frightening when you think about it - an incredibly powerful but senile AI.

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