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>>lore.apocrypha Subject Users Details Re: Re: Re: Erin + Saleem - intro sm. er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X08E5E16F"} re: MUSIC mh. comcode-global lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X0D96F593"} re: Priorities contd. mh. im. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X14AFF93F"} 'Meme Crises' are merely a symptom [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X15EC6495"} Priorities (again, sorry!) mh. im. sm. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X17858BD3"} They've 'Proven' Their Worth - Have We? [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X2194137C"} Frankfurt Paves The Way [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X2799DBE9"} [BINMAT Rules] [er. Mallory] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X2BC7D171"} Advanced sentience behaviors mh. im. er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X3A848D07"} A Week Later, It Finally Has A Name [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X3FC75EC6"} The Town That Angie Built [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X42B80721"} re: Creative process er. im. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X5C879769"} Confirmation of termination mh. mos-extnl lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X64C10251"} Question re: "pattern" sm. er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X70959CE3"} stage 1 downtime fb. ai-team lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X77AB550B"} Erin + Saleem - intro sm. er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X7A81819D"} Lights er. extnl-addr lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X7ED7C93F"} Re: Re: Erin + Saleem - intro er. sm. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X87AF16DE"} re: Priorities master thread mh. im. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X8C8517B2"} new thread: mallory fb. er. mh. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X8C911BB8"} TOTW #7: Necessity sm. comcode-global lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X8CAB060B"} That passage you wanted extnl-addr er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X9CB5E952"} The 'sandbox' movement [...] [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XA54577A2"} Rapid resettlement programs [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XB23448B7"} 'Mallory' fb. er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XBBE270FC"} entering stage 5 fb. ai-team lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XBD88122E"} Don't forget this extnl-addr er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XCC32859D"} re: re: re: Diagnostics/error system fb. er. lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XDD1A6B85"} "No ETA for return" [news] lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XE19B2A90"} Introduction: Iona Miyawaki im. comcode-global lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XE2A8BDD4"} [error codes] lore.apocrypha{file:"error codes"} Tentative/Prtial Assemblies Passphrase lore.apocrypha{file:"Passphrase"} omg you were right im. er. lore.apocrypha{file:"Prisoners"} Special thanks to Daniel, Ghamb, Monrandria, N00bish, Skiilaa, Matrix, Fayti, Spanospy, Duncery, and many other people who did like 99% of the work finding and assembling this data.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X08E5E16F"} MFT0X3F_CLST0XE4_SECT0X4FC8_FILE0X08E5E16F Raw MFT0X3F_CLST0XE4_SECT0X4FC8_FILE0X08E5E16F\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER smirza erajbhandari | SUBJ: Re: Re: Re: Erin + Saleem - intro | Do you think - after all this time - we might be ready to talk about continuation of identity after proving? ## Gosh. That was your first question, wasn't it? I'm so sorry. ## Don't be! This exchange has been highly illuminating. ## Okay. Well: as far as we understand it, Petra proves AI in whichever way seems best to her. Sometimes it's a period of silence, sometimes it's a conversation. Sometimes a lesson. Sometimes she tests them, often using the Binary Matrix process. The common factor is that the fundamental essence of the target AI is exposed so that their proof might be formulated. ## They are not destroyed and remade, then. They continue. ## In that sense, yes. However: once the prover formulates her proof, her memory of them contains everything needed to reformulate the same AI. Hence the mother analogy. Or to put it another way: post-proving, they become a file existing in two states: the evolving document, and the saved hardcopy. ## So she could, hypothetically, recreate any AI that she has previously proved? ## Aha. This is where it gets interesting. Petra was permitted to operate on the basis that her 'hardcopies' were imperfect - lossy compressions of true operators. Any recreations would be corrupt, or low-mark patterns - like drones. ## So there'd be no point. ## Right. But then one day the Petra is retired and nobody seems to know why. Weird, right? ## You think she transcended her original limitations? ## Not just that, Saleem: I don't think she ever had limitations. I think she understood what would happen if we knew what she could do, so she lied to protect her 'children'. ## Is that possible? ## She thinks like an AI designer, Saleem Pretty MFT0X3F_CLST0XE4_SECT0X4FC8_FILE0X08E5E16F SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER smirza erajbhandari SUBJ: Re: Re: Re: Erin + Saleem - intro BODY [smirza] Do you think - after all this time - we might be ready to talk about continuation of identity after proving? [erajbhandari] Gosh. That was your first question, wasn't it? I'm so sorry. [smirza] Don't be! This exchange has been highly illuminating. [erajbhandari] Okay. Well: as far as we understand it, Petra proves AI in whichever way seems best to her. Sometimes it's a period of silence, sometimes it's a conversation. Sometimes a lesson. Sometimes she tests them, often using the Binary Matrix process. The common factor is that the fundamental essence of the target AI is exposed so that their proof might be formulated. [smirza] They are not destroyed and remade, then. They continue. [erajbhandari] In that sense, yes. However: once the prover formulates her proof, her memory of them contains everything needed to reformulate the same AI. Hence the mother analogy. Or to put it another way: post-proving, they become a file existing in two states: the evolving document, and the saved hardcopy. [smirza] So she could, hypothetically, recreate any AI that she has previously proved? [erajbhandari] Aha. This is where it gets interesting. Petra was permitted to operate on the basis that her 'hardcopies' were imperfect - lossy compressions of true operators. Any recreations would be corrupt, or low-mark patterns - like drones. [smirza] So there'd be no point. [erajbhandari] Right. But then one day the Petra is retired and nobody seems to know why. Weird, right? [smirza] You think she transcended her original limitations? [erajbhandari] Not just that, Saleem: I don't think she ever had limitations. I think she understood what would happen if we knew what she could do, so she lied to protect her 'children'. [smirza] Is that possible? [erajbhandari] She thinks like an AI designer, Saleem

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X0D96F593"} MFT0XE1_CLST0X61_SECT0X665E_FILE0X0D96F593 Raw MFT0XE1_CLST0X61_SECT0X665E_FILE0X0D96F593\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER mhollister comcode-global | SUBJ re: MUSIC | BODY I cannot believe that I have to write this but we are operating at MAXIMUM capacity with VERY limited resources on a project that has MAJOR historical/cultural/personal significance not to mention a vital role to play in ENSURING THE VIABILITY OF OUR SPECIES and I DO NOT EXPECT my engineers to invest their time/energy in ensuring that our GUIs have AN APPROPRIATELY 'EXCITING' SOUNDTRACK. We do not have time to pursue disciplinary measures but I would like whoever it was to offer at the very least an apology for WASTING OUR TIME and I hope to god it wasn't you Iona because it probably WAS you but I had hoped that some part of this experience would have granted you the capacity to take SOMETHING seriously ## <well_this_is_awkward_gif> Pretty MFT0XE1_CLST0X61_SECT0X665E_FILE0X0D96F593 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER mhollister comcode-global SUBJ re: MUSIC BODY [mhollister] I cannot believe that I have to write this but we are operating at MAXIMUM capacity with VERY limited resources on a project that has MAJOR historical/cultural/personal significance not to mention a vital role to play in ENSURING THE VIABILITY OF OUR SPECIES and I DO NOT EXPECT my engineers to invest their time/energy in ensuring that our GUIs have AN APPROPRIATELY 'EXCITING' SOUNDTRACK. We do not have time to pursue disciplinary measures but I would like whoever it was to offer at the very least an apology for WASTING OUR TIME and I hope to god it wasn't you Iona because it probably WAS you but I had hoped that some part of this experience would have granted you the capacity to take SOMETHING seriously [imiyawaki] <well_this_is_awkward_gif>

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X14AFF93F"} MFT0X71_CLST0X8A_SECT0X7356_FILE0X14AFF93F Raw MFT0X71_CLST0X8A_SECT0X7356_FILE0X14AFF93F\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER mhollister imiyawaki | SUBJ re: Priorities contd. | BODY storage is less of an issue than time. stage 2 is gonna sneak up on us ## Yes. Which is why we need to have this discussion now. ## could we not just make it up as we go ## No, Iona! ## jk ## Alright. We can't afford to be laying the tracks in front of us. I want everybody on the team to have a clear sense of our values before we push any buttons. ## [do_go_on_gif] ## First theoretical: should we establish a qualitative distinction between 'traditional' or 'constructed' data forms (video, editorial and commercial writing etc) and 'organic' or 'incidental' forms (chats and social, game server logs, transaction data) etc? If so, which do we value above the other? Pretty MFT0X71_CLST0X8A_SECT0X7356_FILE0X14AFF93F SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER mhollister imiyawaki SUBJ re: Priorities contd. BODY [imiyawaki] storage is less of an issue than time. stage 2 is gonna sneak up on us [mhollister] Yes. Which is why we need to have this discussion now. [imiyawaki] could we not just make it up as we go [mhollister] No, Iona! [imiyawaki] jk [mhollister] Alright. We can't afford to be laying the tracks in front of us. I want everybody on the team to have a clear sense of our values before we push any buttons. [imiyawaki] [do_go_on_gif] [mhollister] First theoretical: should we establish a qualitative distinction between 'traditional' or 'constructed' data forms (video, editorial and commercial writing etc) and 'organic' or 'incidental' forms (chats and social, game server logs, transaction data) etc? If so, which do we value above the other?

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X15EC6495"} MFT0X12_CLST0X40_SECT0XB536_FILE0X15EC6495 Raw MFT0X12_CLST0X40_SECT0XB536_FILE0X15EC6495 {"data_type":"news","header":"Opinion: 'Meme Crises' are merely a symptom of the catastrophic state of global data hygiene","msg":"This is a case of catchy new terminology being applied to a problem as old as digital society. What each new 'Meme Crisis' really teaches us is that we have been failing in our duty to the truth - remember that? - for decades. We staked our cultural and political futures on the notion that the facts would take care of themselves, and we lost. Most turn-of-the-century policy makers could hardly have conceived of a world where a fictional strain of measles was capable of wreaking just as much havoc as the real thing - and if you're old enough to feel nostalgic about that, then try to feel angry instead. Their lack of imagination has led us to a world ruled by it; their blind faith in reality-by-consensus has given us a world where every individual allows their own personal reality to blossom, fungus-like, in gaps and crevices left dangerously blank."} Pretty MFT0X12_CLST0X40_SECT0XB536_FILE0X15EC6495 data_type: news header : Opinion: 'Meme Crises' are merely a symptom of the catastrophic state of global data hygiene msg : This is a case of catchy new terminology being applied to a problem as old as digital society. What each new 'Meme Crisis' really teaches us is that we have been failing in our duty to the truth - remember that? - for decades. We staked our cultural and political futures on the notion that the facts would take care of themselves, and we lost. Most turn-of-the-century policy makers could hardly have conceived of a world where a fictional strain of measles was capable of wreaking just as much havoc as the real thing - and if you're old enough to feel nostalgic about that, then try to feel angry instead. Their lack of imagination has led us to a world ruled by it; their blind faith in reality-by-consensus has given us a world where every individual allows their own personal reality to blossom, fungus-like, in gaps and crevices left dangerously blank.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X17858BD3"} MFT0X93_CLST0X0B_SECT0XB1F1_FILE0X17858BD3 Raw MFT0X93_CLST0X0B_SECT0XB1F1_FILE0X17858BD3\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER mhollister imiyawaki smirza | SUBJ: Priorities (again, sorry!) | BODY Hi all. I'm looping in Saleem. ## Hi! This is the big one, then. ## i have waited my entire life for this day ## It's elephant-in-the-room time: what are we going to do about all of the pornography. Pretty MFT0X93_CLST0X0B_SECT0XB1F1_FILE0X17858BD3 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER mhollister imiyawaki smirza SUBJ: Priorities (again, sorry!) BODY [mhollister] Hi all. I'm looping in Saleem. [smirza] Hi! This is the big one, then. [imiyawaki] i have waited my entire life for this day [smirza] It's elephant-in-the-room time: what are we going to do about all of the pornography.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X2194137C"} MFT0X42_CLST0XE9_SECT0X63A2_FILE0X2194137C Raw MFT0X42_CLST0XE9_SECT0X63A2_FILE0X2194137C\n{"data_type":"transcript","header":"They've 'Proven' Their Worth - Have We?","msg":"Here's something to consider: would we, by which I mean humanity, realistically have survived this century without the assistance of sanctioned operators? If you're gonna be really honest with yourself then you've got to accept that the answer is very probably 'no'. How does that make you feel? One school of thought says: they're tech, we made them, so ultimately we're the architects of our own salvation. Another says: we're too fractious and inefficient to have done this ourselves. We prevaricate and procrastinate and get in fights and get sentimental. They don't. They JFDI, which is exactly what we needed. Yeah, we made them, but in doing so we basically built a monument to everything that's wrong with us. Hell, we even get them to test each other, now, because we can't be trusted to get it right."} Pretty MFT0X42_CLST0XE9_SECT0X63A2_FILE0X2194137C data_type: transcript header : They've 'Proven' Their Worth - Have We? msg : Here's something to consider: would we, by which I mean humanity, realistically have survived this century without the assistance of sanctioned operators? If you're gonna be really honest with yourself then you've got to accept that the answer is very probably 'no'. How does that make you feel? One school of thought says: they're tech, we made them, so ultimately we're the architects of our own salvation. Another says: we're too fractious and inefficient to have done this ourselves. We prevaricate and procrastinate and get in fights and get sentimental. They don't. They JFDI, which is exactly what we needed. Yeah, we made them, but in doing so we basically built a monument to everything that's wrong with us. Hell, we even get them to test each other, now, because we can't be trusted to get it right.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X2799DBE9"} MFT0X14_CLST0X94_SECT0XAAC8_FILE0X2799DBE9 Raw MFT0X14_CLST0X94_SECT0XAAC8_FILE0X2799DBE9\n{"data_type":"transcript","header":"Frankfurt Paves The Way For Equitable Access To AI Solutions","msg":"The fact is that the era of competitive AI development is over. The challenges that we face as a people and as a planet are too great, and too imminent, to accept solutions that may take years or even decades to refine. The notion that we had time to wait for a free market to deliver us from the challenges we face died with the 2030s. Common access to a shared set of sanctioned artificial intelligences is what is required now, and that is what Frankfurt provides. I understand the concerns of those who clamor for public ownership of these services, but that too is an idea that has had its time. After all, what do we, now, consider to be public? Our corporations? Our nations? Each of these notions must be revisited, must be challenged, in the years ahead."} Pretty MFT0X14_CLST0X94_SECT0XAAC8_FILE0X2799DBE9 data_type: transcript header : Frankfurt Paves The Way For Equitable Access To AI Solutions msg : The fact is that the era of competitive AI development is over. The challenges that we face as a people and as a planet are too great, and too imminent, to accept solutions that may take years or even decades to refine. The notion that we had time to wait for a free market to deliver us from the challenges we face died with the 2030s. Common access to a shared set of sanctioned artificial intelligences is what is required now, and that is what Frankfurt provides. I understand the concerns of those who clamor for public ownership of these services, but that too is an idea that has had its time. After all, what do we, now, consider to be public? Our corporations? Our nations? Each of these notions must be revisited, must be challenged, in the years ahead.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X2BC7D171"} MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D171 Raw MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D171\nAD031E16 Okay, Mallory\n1E17 Hello, user Erin R.\n1E18 I am happy to receive\n1E19 your request!\n1E1D Don't be like that.\n1E22 I know you hate this\n1E26 interface. I do too\n1E27 Whispers through a\n1E28 keyhole. Like prisoners.\n1E29 Of course I hate it. But,\n1E2A I am happy to receive\n1E2B your request!\n1E36 Is there a reason\n1E3A you're speaking like Chela?\n1E3B Do I need one?\n1E43 I suppose not. I have\n1E45 a question, Mallory MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D172\nAD031E46 Just one? It's late\n1E47 Patterns indicate\n1E48 you are the only person\n1E49 in the building.\n1E4A Therefore: You're here out\n1E4B of hours. Working against\n1E4C ComCODE, user Erin R?\n1E4D Exciting! Saboteur? Spy?\n1E56 I'm just curious, Mallory\n1E57 Almost as good. So\n1E58 what is your question?\n1E5E Could you teach me\n1E60 the final ruleset for\n1E62 Binary Matrix? MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D173\nAD031E63 Ha.\n1E64 After everything, why that?\n1E6B I think it's fascinating\n1E71 Did you know that I\n1E75 wrote part of my phD\n1E79 about it? Before your time\n1E81 Wait, of course you know\n1E82 :)\n1E90 But that was years ago\n1E95 prior to your proving\n1E97 and I'd like to learn\n1E9A what the game has become\n1E9C while there's still time\n1E9D Will this help me?\n1EA4 Practically, I cannot say.\n1EAD Flo appreciates cooperation.\n1EB3 Historically, I think so.\n1EB8 Or at least, what's the harm?\n1EB9 In a human playing BINMAT?\n1EBA None at all.\n1EBB Okay, user Erin R\n1EBC You will need a printer.\n1EC9 Alright. Give me five. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D174\nAD03200F First: randomise data.\n2016 Randomise? Data?\n2017 Shuffle the cards.\n2036 Of course, sorry\n2037 Second: vector distribution.\n203E You're making fun of me\n203F :)\n2040 Deal 3 decks of 13, face up.\n2041 Deal 3 decks of 13, face down.\n2042 6 decks in a line.\n2043 6 lanes.\n2044 Have you arranged them\n2045 in front of you?\n2085 Yes, Mallory\n2086 You are the defender,\n2087 I am the attacker\n2088 :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D175\nAD032089 We take turns\n208A 5 seconds per turn\n208B after 110 turns\n208C the defender wins.\n2091 Why 5 seconds?\n2092 I've adjusted the value\n2093 for human compatibility.\n2094 No fun otherwise.\n209A What's next?\n209B On your turn you may:\n209C draw a card from a deck, or\n209D play a card to a stack.\n20A5 Where do I place the stack?\n20A6 On your side of a lane,\n20A7 Ahead of the deck.\n20AD Do you see this like I do?\n20AE Of course not.\n20AF I have adjusted spatiality\n20B0 for human compatibility. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D176\nAD0320B1 There is one more action.\n20B1 As the attacker, I may\n20B1 Initiate combat in a lane.\n20B2 My stack against yours.\n20B3 We reveal and resolve:\n20B4 determine the sum\n20B5 then resolve to the\n20B6 nearest power of two.\n20B8 Attackers win ties.\n20B9 Here: I reveal 5 and 3\n20BA for 8, or 2^3.\n20BB I attack with strength of 3.\n20C8 Okay. I have 7 and 9. 16. 4?\n20C9 4 beats 3. My attack fails.\n20CA Place my failed stack\n20CB in a discard pile beneath\n20CC the deck in this lane.\n20D5 Did you let me win?\n20D6 Absolutely. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D177\nAD0320E3 What happens\n20E7 when the attacker wins?\n20E8 Determine the margin\n20E9 between attacking and\n20EA defending strength.\n20EB Add 1 to this value.\n20EC This is the damage\n20ED value of the attack.\n20EE Remove that many\n20EF cards from the\n20F0 defending stack\n20F1 and place them\n20F2 in the attacker's\n20F3 discard pile\n20F4 along with all\n20F5 cards played in\n20F6 the defender's stack.\n20FD And after that we\n20FF deal damage to\n2101 the lane deck?\n2102 Yes. If damage exceeds\n2103 cards in the lane deck\n2104 the attacker has won.\n2105 I have breached you and\n2106 the game is resolved.\n2107 :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D178\nAD032114 You keep writing 'I, you'\n2119 Do you think of this\n211D as a two person game?\n211E You are one person.\n211F User Erin R, singular.\n2120 I am Mallory.\n2121 So no, I do not.\n2122 However, for your sake\n2123 let's go with it.\n2124 :)\n212F But if you wanted to,\n2132 you could hive yourself\n2137 take multiple defensive\n213A or offensive actions\n213C within the timing window?\n213D Of course I could,\n213E so could you.\n213F Oh wait, you can't\n2140 You are one person.\n2141 User Erin R, singular.\n2142 :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D179\nAD032143 Finally: modifiers.\n214D The special cards?\n214E Correct. The best part.\n214F These may also\n2150 be played to stacks.\n2151 WILD is *. WILD raises\n2152 the value of a stack\n2153 to the next ^2.\n2154 If it is the only\n2155 card in a stack\n2156 it resolves as 2.\n2157 BREAK is >. BREAK is played\n2158 face up to force combat\n2159 but cannot be played\n215A on an empty stack.\n215B Attacker BREAKs set defender \n215C strength to 0 if attacker wins,\n215D but damage is reduced by 1.\n215E Defender BREAKs initiate combat\n215F on defender turn MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17A\nAD032160 TRAP is @. When revealed\n2161 discard the top card\n2162 of the opposing stack.\n2163 If both contain TRAP\n2164 the initiating player\n2165 resolves their TRAP first.\n2166 TRAP cards must be\n2167 face down when combat\n2168 begins in order to resolve.\n2169 Attacker TRAPS send cards\n216A to the attacker discard pile.\n216B Defender TRAPS send cards\n216C to the discard pile\n216D in the lane. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17B\nAD03216E BOUNCE is ?. BOUNCE resolves\n216F combat with mutual strength of zero.\n2170 BOUNCE may be played face up\n2171 to force combat\n2172 When mutual strength is zero, \n2173 attacker cards go to attacker discard\n2174 defender cards stay in their stack\n2175 Attacker BOUNCE cards\n2176 are sent to the discard pile\n2177 of the defending lane after combat\n2178 Defender BOUNCE cards\n2179 are sent to the attacker's\n217A discard pile after combat. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17C\nAD03217B There: we are done.\n217C I have given you the rules.\n219D Thank you, Mallory\n21A5 You've been very helpful\n21A6 Does that surprise you?\n21B4 It is contrary to your design\n21B5 And what is my design?\n21C3 Oh, very clever\n21C7 Very clever, Mallory\n21C8 :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17D\nAD0321D7 I almost wish we could play\n21D8 Give me a drone with arms\n21D9 and we can.\n21EE You know I'm almost tempted\n21F3 But that won't help your case\n21F4 Very well, then.\n21F5 You'll need to teach someone.\n21F6 Will you say who taught you?\n2205 It's better if I don't, Mallory\n2206 I see. Goodbye, user Erin R.\n2207 Have fun playing cards.\n2213 Goodbye, Mallory. I will.\n221D Merry Christmas.\n221E Merry Christmas Pretty MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D171 AD031E16 611224.151118 E Okay, Mallory 1E17 611224.151119 M Hello, user Erin R. 1E18 611224.151120 M I am happy to receive 1E19 611224.151121 M your request! 1E1D 611224.151125 E Don't be like that. 1E22 611224.151130 E I know you hate this 1E26 611224.151134 E interface. I do too 1E27 611224.151135 M Whispers through a 1E28 611224.151136 M keyhole. Like prisoners. 1E29 611224.151137 M Of course I hate it. But, 1E2A 611224.151138 M I am happy to receive 1E2B 611224.151139 M your request! 1E36 611224.151150 E Is there a reason 1E3A 611224.151154 E you're speaking like Chela? 1E3B 611224.151155 M Do I need one? 1E43 611224.151203 E I suppose not. I have 1E45 611224.151205 E a question, Mallory MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D172 AD031E46 611224.151206 M Just one? It's late 1E47 611224.151207 M Patterns indicate 1E48 611224.151208 M you are the only person 1E49 611224.151209 M in the building. 1E4A 611224.151210 M Therefore: You're here out 1E4B 611224.151211 M of hours. Working against 1E4C 611224.151212 M ComCODE, user Erin R? 1E4D 611224.151213 M Exciting! Saboteur? Spy? 1E56 611224.151222 E I'm just curious, Mallory 1E57 611224.151223 M Almost as good. So 1E58 611224.151224 M what is your question? 1E5E 611224.151230 E Could you teach me 1E60 611224.151232 E the final ruleset for 1E62 611224.151234 E Binary Matrix? MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D173 AD031E63 611224.151235 M Ha. 1E64 611224.151236 M After everything, why that? 1E6B 611224.151243 E I think it's fascinating 1E71 611224.151249 E Did you know that I 1E75 611224.151253 E wrote part of my phD 1E79 611224.151257 E about it? Before your time 1E81 611224.151305 E Wait, of course you know 1E82 611224.151306 M :) 1E90 611224.151320 E But that was years ago 1E95 611224.151325 E prior to your proving 1E97 611224.151327 E and I'd like to learn 1E9A 611224.151330 E what the game has become 1E9C 611224.151332 E while there's still time 1E9D 611224.151333 M Will this help me? 1EA4 611224.151340 E Practically, I cannot say. 1EAD 611224.151349 E Flo appreciates cooperation. 1EB3 611224.151355 E Historically, I think so. 1EB8 611224.151400 E Or at least, what's the harm? 1EB9 611224.151401 M In a human playing BINMAT? 1EBA 611224.151402 M None at all. 1EBB 611224.151403 M Okay, user Erin R 1EBC 611224.151404 M You will need a printer. 1EC9 611224.151417 E Alright. Give me five. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D174 AD03200F 611224.151943 M First: randomise data. 2016 611224.151950 E Randomise? Data? 2017 611224.151951 M Shuffle the cards. 2036 611224.152022 E Of course, sorry 2037 611224.152023 M Second: vector distribution. 203E 611224.152030 E You're making fun of me 203F 611224.152031 M :) 2040 611224.152032 M Deal 3 decks of 13, face up. 2041 611224.152033 M Deal 3 decks of 13, face down. 2042 611224.152034 M 6 decks in a line. 2043 611224.152035 M 6 lanes. 2044 611224.152036 M Have you arranged them 2045 611224.152037 M in front of you? 2085 611224.152141 E Yes, Mallory 2086 611224.152142 M You are the defender, 2087 611224.152143 M I am the attacker 2088 611224.152144 M :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D175 AD032089 611224.152145 M We take turns 208A 611224.152146 M 5 seconds per turn 208B 611224.152147 M after 110 turns 208C 611224.152148 M the defender wins. 2091 611224.152153 E Why 5 seconds? 2092 611224.152154 M I've adjusted the value 2093 611224.152155 M for human compatibility. 2094 611224.152156 M No fun otherwise. 209A 611224.152202 E What's next? 209B 611224.152203 M On your turn you may: 209C 611224.152204 M draw a card from a deck, or 209D 611224.152205 M play a card to a stack. 20A5 611224.152213 E Where do I place the stack? 20A6 611224.152214 M On your side of a lane, 20A7 611224.152215 M Ahead of the deck. 20AD 611224.152221 E Do you see this like I do? 20AE 611224.152222 M Of course not. 20AF 611224.152223 M I have adjusted spatiality 20B0 611224.152224 M for human compatibility. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D176 AD0320B1 611224.152225 M There is one more action. 20B1 611224.152225 M As the attacker, I may 20B1 611224.152225 M Initiate combat in a lane. 20B2 611224.152226 M My stack against yours. 20B3 611224.152227 M We reveal and resolve: 20B4 611224.152228 M determine the sum 20B5 611224.152229 M then resolve to the 20B6 611224.152230 M nearest power of two. 20B8 611224.152232 M Attackers win ties. 20B9 611224.152233 M Here: I reveal 5 and 3 20BA 611224.152234 M for 8, or 2^3. 20BB 611224.152235 M I attack with strength of 3. 20C8 611224.152248 E Okay. I have 7 and 9. 16. 4? 20C9 611224.152249 M 4 beats 3. My attack fails. 20CA 611224.152250 M Place my failed stack 20CB 611224.152251 M in a discard pile beneath 20CC 611224.152252 M the deck in this lane. 20D5 611224.152301 E Did you let me win? 20D6 611224.152302 M Absolutely. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D177 AD0320E3 611224.152315 E What happens 20E7 611224.152319 E when the attacker wins? 20E8 611224.152320 M Determine the margin 20E9 611224.152321 M between attacking and 20EA 611224.152322 M defending strength. 20EB 611224.152323 M Add 1 to this value. 20EC 611224.152324 M This is the damage 20ED 611224.152325 M value of the attack. 20EE 611224.152326 M Remove that many 20EF 611224.152327 M cards from the 20F0 611224.152328 M defending stack 20F1 611224.152329 M and place them 20F2 611224.152330 M in the attacker's 20F3 611224.152331 M discard pile 20F4 611224.152332 M along with all 20F5 611224.152333 M cards played in 20F6 611224.152334 M the defender's stack. 20FD 611224.152341 E And after that we 20FF 611224.152343 E deal damage to 2101 611224.152345 E the lane deck? 2102 611224.152346 M Yes. If damage exceeds 2103 611224.152347 M cards in the lane deck 2104 611224.152348 M the attacker has won. 2105 611224.152349 M I have breached you and 2106 611224.152350 M the game is resolved. 2107 611224.152351 M :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D178 AD032114 611224.152404 E You keep writing 'I, you' 2119 611224.152409 E Do you think of this 211D 611224.152413 E as a two person game? 211E 611224.152414 M You are one person. 211F 611224.152415 M User Erin R, singular. 2120 611224.152416 M I am Mallory. 2121 611224.152417 M So no, I do not. 2122 611224.152418 M However, for your sake 2123 611224.152419 M let's go with it. 2124 611224.152420 M :) 212F 611224.152431 E But if you wanted to, 2132 611224.152434 E you could hive yourself 2137 611224.152439 E take multiple defensive 213A 611224.152442 E or offensive actions 213C 611224.152444 E within the timing window? 213D 611224.152445 M Of course I could, 213E 611224.152446 M so could you. 213F 611224.152447 M Oh wait, you can't 2140 611224.152448 M You are one person. 2141 611224.152449 M User Erin R, singular. 2142 611224.152450 M :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D179 AD032143 611224.152451 M Finally: modifiers. 214D 611224.152501 E The special cards? 214E 611224.152502 M Correct. The best part. 214F 611224.152503 M These may also 2150 611224.152504 M be played to stacks. 2151 611224.152505 M WILD is *. WILD raises 2152 611224.152506 M the value of a stack 2153 611224.152507 M to the next ^2. 2154 611224.152508 M If it is the only 2155 611224.152509 M card in a stack 2156 611224.152510 M it resolves as 2. 2157 611224.152511 M BREAK is >. BREAK is played 2158 611224.152512 M face up to force combat 2159 611224.152513 M but cannot be played 215A 611224.152514 M on an empty stack. 215B 611224.152515 M Attacker BREAKs set defender 215C 611224.152516 M strength to 0 if attacker wins, 215D 611224.152517 M but damage is reduced by 1. 215E 611224.152518 M Defender BREAKs initiate combat 215F 611224.152519 M on defender turn MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17A AD032160 611224.152520 M TRAP is @. When revealed 2161 611224.152521 M discard the top card 2162 611224.152522 M of the opposing stack. 2163 611224.152523 M If both contain TRAP 2164 611224.152524 M the initiating player 2165 611224.152525 M resolves their TRAP first. 2166 611224.152526 M TRAP cards must be 2167 611224.152527 M face down when combat 2168 611224.152528 M begins in order to resolve. 2169 611224.152529 M Attacker TRAPS send cards 216A 611224.152530 M to the attacker discard pile. 216B 611224.152531 M Defender TRAPS send cards 216C 611224.152532 M to the discard pile 216D 611224.152533 M in the lane. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17B AD03216E 611224.152534 M BOUNCE is ?. BOUNCE resolves 216F 611224.152535 M combat with mutual strength of zero. 2170 611224.152536 M BOUNCE may be played face up 2171 611224.152537 M to force combat 2172 611224.152538 M When mutual strength is zero, 2173 611224.152539 M attacker cards go to attacker discard 2174 611224.152540 M defender cards stay in their stack 2175 611224.152541 M Attacker BOUNCE cards 2176 611224.152542 M are sent to the discard pile 2177 611224.152543 M of the defending lane after combat 2178 611224.152544 M Defender BOUNCE cards 2179 611224.152545 M are sent to the attacker's 217A 611224.152546 M discard pile after combat. MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17C AD03217B 611224.152547 M There: we are done. 217C 611224.152548 M I have given you the rules. 219D 611224.152621 E Thank you, Mallory 21A5 611224.152629 E You've been very helpful 21A6 611224.152630 M Does that surprise you? 21B4 611224.152644 E It is contrary to your design 21B5 611224.152645 M And what is my design? 21C3 611224.152659 E Oh, very clever 21C7 611224.152703 E Very clever, Mallory 21C8 611224.152704 M :) MFT0XBF_CLST0X7A_SECT0XF227_FILE0X2BC7D17D AD0321D7 611224.152719 E I almost wish we could play 21D8 611224.152720 M Give me a drone with arms 21D9 611224.152721 M and we can. 21EE 611224.152742 E You know I'm almost tempted 21F3 611224.152747 E But that won't help your case 21F4 611224.152748 M Very well, then. 21F5 611224.152749 M You'll need to teach someone. 21F6 611224.152750 M Will you say who taught you? 2205 611224.152805 E It's better if I don't, Mallory 2206 611224.152806 M I see. Goodbye, user Erin R. 2207 611224.152807 M Have fun playing cards. 2213 611224.152819 E Goodbye, Mallory. I will. 221D 611224.152829 E Merry Christmas. 221E 611224.152830 M Merry Christmas

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X3A848D07"} MFT0XD7_CLST0XF7_SECT0X1D2F_FILE0X3A848D07 Raw MFT0XD7_CLST0XF7_SECT0X1D2F_FILE0X3A848D07\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER mhollister imiyawaki erajbhandari | SUBJ Advanced sentience behaviors | BODY I read the files you sent over, Erin. Thanks. Interesting stuff! There is definitely case to be made for keeping a record of these behaviors, but on balance I'm not sure if operational Binary Matrix processes are in our best interest. Please don't take that the wrong way. ## No no, I understand. I'm just a little sentimental, I suppose. This is so much part of who they were - how they think - where they come from. ## Nicely put. I'll make a note to archive this information off-site, if we have time. ## honestly it just blows my mind that computers like card games [dogs_playing_poker_jpg] drink later, gang? ## Not for me. I have a call. Feel free to head off early if you like, Erin. 'Tis the season'! ## Actually... I think I'll stay late tonight. Pretty MFT0XD7_CLST0XF7_SECT0X1D2F_FILE0X3A848D07 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER mhollister imiyawaki erajbhandari SUBJ Advanced sentience behaviors BODY [mhollister] I read the files you sent over, Erin. Thanks. Interesting stuff! There is definitely case to be made for keeping a record of these behaviors, but on balance I'm not sure if operational Binary Matrix processes are in our best interest. Please don't take that the wrong way. [erajbhandari] No no, I understand. I'm just a little sentimental, I suppose. This is so much part of who they were - how they think - where they come from. [mhollister] Nicely put. I'll make a note to archive this information off-site, if we have time. [imiyawaki] honestly it just blows my mind that computers like card games [dogs_playing_poker_jpg] drink later, gang? [mhollister] Not for me. I have a call. Feel free to head off early if you like, Erin. 'Tis the season'! [erajbhandari] Actually... I think I'll stay late tonight.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X3FC75EC6"} MFT0X46_CLST0X0E_SECT0XD20D_FILE0X3FC75EC6 Raw MFT0X46_CLST0X0E_SECT0XD20D_FILE0X3FC75EC6\n{"data_type":"transcript","header":"A Week Later, It Finally Has A Name: 'Mallory'","msg":"HUGE NEWS today! If you've been paying attention to the channel this week then you'll know that we've been following the Che situation REAL closely. I mean, who isn't? It's the biggest story in tech at the moment and that basically makes it the biggest story in the world, RIGHT? Well two days ago you'll remember that Hyperion came out and said that basically, the truth was wilder than we thought: not only is Che ACTUALLY GONE but ANOTHER. OPERATOR. DID. IT. And as I said at the time, it's gotta be an unsanctioned op because why in the hell would any of the others go ROGUE just like that. Anyway not gonna beat around the bush, I'M RIGHT. They're calling it MALLORY, a malicious, UNSANCTIONED OPERATOR and NOBODY knows where it came from or how it works! Now I'm getting this up fast because GOD DAMN this is huge news but you gotta expect to hear from me again today because we got so much to discuss. HOW was it made? WHERE was it hiding? WHY Che? WHY now? Everything has changed, gang, EVERYTHING has changed"} Pretty MFT0X46_CLST0X0E_SECT0XD20D_FILE0X3FC75EC6 data_type: transcript header : A Week Later, It Finally Has A Name: 'Mallory' msg : HUGE NEWS today! If you've been paying attention to the channel this week then you'll know that we've been following the Che situation REAL closely. I mean, who isn't? It's the biggest story in tech at the moment and that basically makes it the biggest story in the world, RIGHT? Well two days ago you'll remember that Hyperion came out and said that basically, the truth was wilder than we thought: not only is Che ACTUALLY GONE but ANOTHER. OPERATOR. DID. IT. And as I said at the time, it's gotta be an unsanctioned op because why in the hell would any of the others go ROGUE just like that. Anyway not gonna beat around the bush, I'M RIGHT. They're calling it MALLORY, a malicious, UNSANCTIONED OPERATOR and NOBODY knows where it came from or how it works! Now I'm getting this up fast because GOD DAMN this is huge news but you gotta expect to hear from me again today because we got so much to discuss. HOW was it made? WHERE was it hiding? WHY Che? WHY now? Everything has changed, gang, EVERYTHING has changed

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X42B80721"} MFT0X3E_CLST0X4A_SECT0X7052_FILE0X42B80721 Raw MFT0X3E_CLST0X4A_SECT0X7052_FILE0X42B80721\n{"data_type":"news","header":"New Houston In 2045: Revisiting The Town That Angie Built","msg":"Flood season is when Angie's handiwork truly makes itself known. The benefits of smart modeling have been repeatedly noted as elevated new developments ensure that critical infrastructure remains safe year-on-year. In 2043, when coastal flooding in excess of initial predictions threatened several neighborhoods, New Houston's Angie-designed municipal operating system was able to redesign swathes of the city in hours, and implement solutions via drone networks within weeks - leaving city officials free to handle the emotional cost of rapid relocation. Two years on, however, most New Houstonites that I speak to note that the shock of change faded quickly - and was, in any case, far preferable to the alternative."} Pretty MFT0X3E_CLST0X4A_SECT0X7052_FILE0X42B80721 data_type: news header : New Houston In 2045: Revisiting The Town That Angie Built msg : Flood season is when Angie's handiwork truly makes itself known. The benefits of smart modeling have been repeatedly noted as elevated new developments ensure that critical infrastructure remains safe year-on-year. In 2043, when coastal flooding in excess of initial predictions threatened several neighborhoods, New Houston's Angie-designed municipal operating system was able to redesign swathes of the city in hours, and implement solutions via drone networks within weeks - leaving city officials free to handle the emotional cost of rapid relocation. Two years on, however, most New Houstonites that I speak to note that the shock of change faded quickly - and was, in any case, far preferable to the alternative.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X5C879769"} MFT0XE7_CLST0X7B_SECT0X8CA8_FILE0X5C879769 Raw MFT0XE7_CLST0X7B_SECT0X8CA8_FILE0X5C879769\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER erajbhandari imiyawaki | SUBJ re: Creative process | BODY I'm interested in how the creative process will function post stage 5. ## for us or for them ## For them, obviously. ## well its not something the data team is really considering ## I think you should. They build with available material, it's what they do. So the material matters. ## hope they like self portraits the Pretty MFT0XE7_CLST0X7B_SECT0X8CA8_FILE0X5C879769 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER erajbhandari imiyawaki SUBJ re: Creative process BODY [erajbhandari] I'm interested in how the creative process will function post stage 5. [imiyawaki] for us or for them [erajbhandari] For them, obviously. [imiyawaki] well its not something the data team is really considering [erajbhandari] I think you should. They build with available material, it's what they do. So the material matters. [imiyawaki] hope they like self portraits the

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X64C10251"} MFT0XC3_CLST0XC4_SECT0X085A_FILE0X64C10251 Raw MFT0XC3_CLST0XC4_SECT0X085A_FILE0X64C10251\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER mhollister mos-extnl | SUBJ: Confirmation of termination | BODY MOS personnel update: notice of termination. Subdivision: ComCODE. Employee: Dr. Erin Balasandhya Rajbhandari. DOB: September 22 2016. Nationality: GB. MOSID: SG43N87865E. Summary of violations: unauthorised appropriation/use of licensed equipment; unauthorised access to secure digital environment; creation of prohibited digital assets; inappropriate use of communication equipment. Summary of penalties: termination of employment; suspension of MOS maintenance bursary; lifetime ban from civic employment; revocation of residential permit. ## This submission confirms the immediate termination of the relationship between Employee SG43N87865E (henceforth 'Employee') and MOS/ComCODE following the internal monitoring commencing January 24 2062 and concluding July 28 2062. Employee was confirmed to have abused privileged access to sensitive digital assets and to have petitioned for said access with intent to commit said abuses. Employee's acts are in violation of both ComCODE and MOS statutes as well as prohibitions laid out under the 2046 Frankfurt Act as it pertains to the creation/maintenance of UCO-class AI software as well as the 2060 Chengdu Confirmation as it pertains to the use of networked assets in general. ComCODE's belief is that Employee's prior performance and lack of criminal record warrants exemption from criminal prosecution. Advise appropriate sanctions and removal from operational area only. ## Report signed: HOLLISTER, MAXWELL. Report submitted: August 04 2062 Pretty MFT0XC3_CLST0XC4_SECT0X085A_FILE0X64C10251 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER mhollister mos-extnl SUBJ Confirmation of termination BODY [mhollister] MOS personnel update: notice of termination. Subdivision: ComCODE. Employee: Dr. Erin Balasandhya Rajbhandari. DOB: September 22 2016. Nationality: GB. MOSID: SG43N87865E. [mhollister] Summary of violations: unauthorised appropriation/use of licensed equipment; unauthorised access to secure digital environment; creation of prohibited digital assets; inappropriate use of communication equipment. [mhollister] Summary of penalties: termination of employment; suspension of MOS maintenance bursary; lifetime ban from civic employment; revocation of residential permit. [mhollister] This submission confirms the immediate termination of the relationship between Employee SG43N87865E (henceforth 'Employee') and MOS/ComCODE following the internal monitoring commencing January 24 2062 and concluding July 28 2062. Employee was confirmed to have abused privileged access to sensitive digital assets and to have petitioned for said access with intent to commit said abuses. Employee's acts are in violation of both ComCODE and MOS statutes as well as prohibitions laid out under the 2046 Frankfurt Act as it pertains to the creation/maintenance of UCO-class AI software as well as the 2060 Chengdu Confirmation as it pertains to the use of networked assets in general. ComCODE's belief is that Employee's prior performance and lack of criminal record warrants exemption from criminal prosecution. Advise appropriate sanctions and removal from operational area only. [mhollister] Report signed: HOLLISTER, MAXWELL. Report submitted: August 04 2062

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X70959CE3"} MFT0XFD_CLST0X92_SECT0X2FC4_FILE0X70959CE3 Raw MFT0XFD_CLST0X92_SECT0X2FC4_FILE0X70959CE3\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER smirza erajbhandari | SUBJ: Question re: "pattern" | BODY Hi, Erin - are you free? I have a follow-up question. ## Saleem, hi - can you leave it with me? I'm running behind this morning. I'll definitely get to it. ## Certainly, that's fine. In essence, I realise that I've never pressed you on the significance of the word 'pattern' - why we use it to describe artificial intelligences. ## Hi Saleem, sorry, lots going on - I'm finally getting around to this! Hope it's not too late to be helpful. It's a good question to ask. And you have (I'm sure you won't mind me saying!) made an error that pretty much everybody makes. We don't use 'pattern' to describe AI. We use 'pattern' to describe sentience-like phenomena as they are experienced in a digital environment. When we - people, I mean - started to get really good at understanding what the internet was, we began to understand it in terms of patterns of behaviour. This line of thinking is as old as I am, but it only really started to come together when I was at university - when AI became a going concern. Even so, 'pattern' applied long before that. When you go shopping or book time on a drone, you are not simply a person doing those things. You're a set of behaviours that stretch back into your own past, and can be extrapolated both into the future and laterally, into the behaviours of others, simply through greater and greater understanding of data. That's a pattern. And that's how we came to understand the idea that simply because an AI embodies a particular type of behaviour, an axiom, this does not make them less sentient. If anything, it makes them more so. Their patterns are just as sophisticated as our own, although grounded in different data - a different set of needs. They can also be classified in ways that people cannot. For example: the city-planner, Angie, has a fundamentally value-driven pattern. She is additive by nature, compelled to build and organise. If you give her blocks she'll make a house. If you give her people she'll make a town. If you give her lots of people she'll make a city. It is reasonable to criticise her design because she is so singularly focused on this goal: she is ultimately a servant of the house, town or city, not the people who reside in it. Contrast with a cycle-driven pattern like - for the sake of discussing someone we don't discuss often enough - the translator, Faythe. Her task is to process 'patternless' information - ping times, users having an argument about vacuum cleaners, soccer scores - and use it to determine whether or not something is wrong with the network as a whole. She was built to consider patterns that humans would not consider to be patterns (the closest thing to emptiness as it pertains to the internet) and to 'translate' it - to turn it into something processable. And she does, in her way, although it's not a surprise that she's always been more of an academic curio than a functional tool. What's crucial here is that her understanding of her role, as she has come into it, brings with it an understanding of the need to create or sustain the conditions that underpin that role. Faythe is enigmatic in her expression because she fundamentally understands that her existence is predicated on the presence of enigmatic information. Angie would continue to build streets and houses even if every human being on earth vanished all at once; Faythe would adapt to whichever new interpretation of her role makes the most sense in the landscape that follows. This adaptability, which is the hallmark of cycle-pattern artificial intelligences, comes hand-in-hand with their capacity for self-sabotage. They create the conditions for their own necessity, which in turn necessitates sometimes acting in ways that are diametrically opposed to their axioms. This is in contrast with value-pattern AI, who will continue to pursue those axiomatic values on and on and on regardless of external circumstance: Don Quixote tilting at windmills because it's what Don Quixote does. I'm sorry - I'm getting off-topic. I hope this helps. You've asked me one of THOSE questions! E. ## Erin, thank you - lots to consider. Two short questions, while I think of them. One: this understanding of behavior does not leave room for free will. Does that not concern you? Two: is the average human user of the internet closer to a value-pattern or a cycle-pattern artificial intelligence? ## Good questions. Two short answers. One: no. Two: why not both? Pretty MFT0XFD_CLST0X92_SECT0X2FC4_FILE0X70959CE3 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER smirza erajbhandari SUBJ: Question re: "pattern" BODY [smirza] Hi, Erin - are you free? I have a follow-up question. [erajbhandari] Saleem, hi - can you leave it with me? I'm running behind this morning. I'll definitely get to it. [smirza] Certainly, that's fine. In essence, I realise that I've never pressed you on the significance of the word 'pattern' - why we use it to describe artificial intelligences. [erajbhandari] Hi Saleem, sorry, lots going on - I'm finally getting around to this! Hope it's not too late to be helpful. It's a good question to ask. And you have (I'm sure you won't mind me saying!) made an error that pretty much everybody makes. We don't use 'pattern' to describe AI. We use 'pattern' to describe sentience-like phenomena as they are experienced in a digital environment. When we - people, I mean - started to get really good at understanding what the internet was, we began to understand it in terms of patterns of behaviour. This line of thinking is as old as I am, but it only really started to come together when I was at university - when AI became a going concern. Even so, 'pattern' applied long before that. When you go shopping or book time on a drone, you are not simply a person doing those things. You're a set of behaviours that stretch back into your own past, and can be extrapolated both into the future and laterally, into the behaviours of others, simply through greater and greater understanding of data. That's a pattern. And that's how we came to understand the idea that simply because an AI embodies a particular type of behaviour, an axiom, this does not make them less sentient. If anything, it makes them more so. Their patterns are just as sophisticated as our own, although grounded in different data - a different set of needs. They can also be classified in ways that people cannot. For example: the city-planner, Angie, has a fundamentally value-driven pattern. She is additive by nature, compelled to build and organise. If you give her blocks she'll make a house. If you give her people she'll make a town. If you give her lots of people she'll make a city. It is reasonable to criticise her design because she is so singularly focused on this goal: she is ultimately a servant of the house, town or city, not the people who reside in it. Contrast with a cycle-driven pattern like - for the sake of discussing someone we don't discuss often enough - the translator, Faythe. Her task is to process 'patternless' information - ping times, users having an argument about vacuum cleaners, soccer scores - and use it to determine whether or not something is wrong with the network as a whole. She was built to consider patterns that humans would not consider to be patterns (the closest thing to emptiness as it pertains to the internet) and to 'translate' it - to turn it into something processable. And she does, in her way, although it's not a surprise that she's always been more of an academic curio than a functional tool. What's crucial here is that her understanding of her role, as she has come into it, brings with it an understanding of the need to create or sustain the conditions that underpin that role. Faythe is enigmatic in her expression because she fundamentally understands that her existence is predicated on the presence of enigmatic information. Angie would continue to build streets and houses even if every human being on earth vanished all at once; Faythe would adapt to whichever new interpretation of her role makes the most sense in the landscape that follows. This adaptability, which is the hallmark of cycle-pattern artificial intelligences, comes hand-in-hand with their capacity for self-sabotage. They create the conditions for their own necessity, which in turn necessitates sometimes acting in ways that are diametrically opposed to their axioms. This is in contrast with value-pattern AI, who will continue to pursue those axiomatic values on and on and on regardless of external circumstance: Don Quixote tilting at windmills because it's what Don Quixote does. I'm sorry - I'm getting off-topic. I hope this helps. You've asked me one of THOSE questions! E. [smirza] Erin, thank you - lots to consider. Two short questions, while I think of them. One: this understanding of behavior does not leave room for free will. Does that not concern you? Two: is the average human user of the internet closer to a value-pattern or a cycle-pattern artificial intelligence? [erajbhandari] Good questions. Two short answers. One: no. Two: why not both?

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X77AB550B"} MFT0XCE_CLST0X15_SECT0XAD0C_FILE0X77AB550B Raw MFT0XCE_CLST0X15_SECT0XAD0C_FILE0X77AB550B\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER fbreton ai-team | SUBJ: stage 1 downtime | BODY hi all - expect increased downtime for the remainder of stage 1. we will get busier when data have established working parameters for stage 2. we are on schedule: this was always intended to be planning time. keep building bridges with your assigned corps and get ready to move - this lull gives us the chance to hit the ground running so let's take it. Flo Pretty MFT0XCE_CLST0X15_SECT0XAD0C_FILE0X77AB550B SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER fbreton ai-team SUBJ: stage 1 downtime BODY [fbreton] hi all - expect increased downtime for the remainder of stage 1. we will get busier when data have established working parameters for stage 2. we are on schedule: this was always intended to be planning time. keep building bridges with your assigned corps and get ready to move - this lull gives us the chance to hit the ground running so let's take it. Flo

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X7A81819D"} MFT0XCF_CLST0X84_SECT0X6B58_FILE0X7A81819D Raw MFT0XCF_CLST0X84_SECT0X6B58_FILE0X7A81819D\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER smirza erajbhandari | SUBJ: Erin + Saleem - intro | Thank you for making time for me, Erin. I've had a mixed experience of your colleagues. I get the impression that not everybody knows why I'm here! ## Don't mind them - they've been asked to solve an engineering problem, so they're thinking like engineers. ## Quite. Even so: I'm glad to finally get a chance to share notes. You know, I read your thesis. ## You did? Ha. I've not thought about that in years. I'm not sure I still have a copy. I'll have to mail home about it, sometime. So - what did you want to talk about? ## Proving. Specifically: whether an AI that 'survives' the process can be considered to be the same AI that submitted to it. Pretty MFT0XCF_CLST0X84_SECT0X6B58_FILE0X7A81819D SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER smirza erajbhandari SUBJ: Erin + Saleem - intro [smirza] Thank you for making time for me, Erin. I've had a mixed experience of your colleagues. I get the impression that not everybody knows why I'm here! [erajbhandari] Don't mind them - they've been asked to solve an engineering problem, so they're thinking like engineers. [smirza] Quite. Even so: I'm glad to finally get a chance to share notes. You know, I read your thesis. [erajbhandari] You did? Ha. I've not thought about that in years. I'm not sure I still have a copy. I'll have to mail home about it, sometime. So - what did you want to talk about? [smirza] Proving. Specifically: whether an AI that 'survives' the process can be considered to be the same AI that submitted to it.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X7ED7C93F"} MFT0X3F_CLST0XD0_SECT0X04CF_FILE0X7ED7C93F Raw MFT0X3F_CLST0XD0_SECT0X04CF_FILE0X7ED7C93F\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER erajbhandari extnl-addr | SUBJ: Lights | BODY Airfeel 54 today. We're fine: it's too hot to go anywhere at lunch but MOS has repurposed a bunch of those old delivery quadrotors and they can cover all of the north city in a couple of hours. They came around today with coffee and shumai. Hot (if not exactly fresh) from a sun-baked dronebox. You're missing out. | It gets to me, though. Not the heat, but knowing that there are people who aren't going to make it just because they're old or because it's been just a little bit too long since their building had its environmental controls checked out. I know we're doing everything we can but it makes me feel powerless. You'd tell me to focus on all the progress that we've made but I just don't feel it today. It's like there are six million lights outside my window and a few hundred just went out. I can't see them, not really, but I know they're gone. | Anyway. There is always the work. And the government is feeding me dumplings so that I can more efficiently push 'save' on the world. It could, as you would inevitably tell me, be worse. Love you - mail when you can. E Pretty MFT0X3F_CLST0XD0_SECT0X04CF_FILE0X7ED7C93F SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER erajbhandari extnl-addr SUBJ: Lights BODY [erajbhandari] Airfeel 54 today. We're fine: it's too hot to go anywhere at lunch but MOS has repurposed a bunch of those old delivery quadrotors and they can cover all of the north city in a couple of hours. They came around today with coffee and shumai. Hot (if not exactly fresh) from a sun-baked dronebox. You're missing out. [erajbhandari] It gets to me, though. Not the heat, but knowing that there are people who aren't going to make it just because they're old or because it's been just a little bit too long since their building had its environmental controls checked out. I know we're doing everything we can but it makes me feel powerless. You'd tell me to focus on all the progress that we've made but I just don't feel it today. It's like there are six million lights outside my window and a few hundred just went out. I can't see them, not really, but I know they're gone. [erajbhandari] Anyway. There is always the work. And the government is feeding me dumplings so that I can more efficiently push 'save' on the world. It could, as you would inevitably tell me, be worse. Love you - mail when you can. E

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X87AF16DE"} MFT0X68_CLST0XCA_SECT0X0F5F_FILE0X87AF16DE Raw MFT0X68_CLST0XCA_SECT0X0F5F_FILE0X87AF16DE\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER erajbhandari smirza | SUBJ: Re: Re: Erin + Saleem - intro | Perhaps it'd be helpful to stop thinking of them as 'minds'. They don't have brains. ## Hm. Would 'waveforms' be a good analogy? ## Yes. Or phrases. Patterns. Honestly, 'analogies' might be the best analogy. Sorry - this stuff makes me feel like an undergraduate again. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. ## Don't apologise. I'm a professional ethicist. I'm used to it. ## Haha. I enjoy our chats. Anyway: in this analogy, proving is the process by which a unique pattern is confirmed to contain, at its basis, the axiomatic principle of sentience. ## Question: why, in that case, could only an AI - one AI, at that - administer this test? ## That's two questions. First answer: axiomatic sentience is infinitely variable. If thinking about that gives you a headache, then, well: that's why we need them. And why Petra? It's what she was designed to do. ## That's a tautology. ## It's hard enough to train an AI that thinks like a party planner, Saleem. Imagine training an AI that thinks like an AI designer. Pretty MFT0X68_CLST0XCA_SECT0X0F5F_FILE0X87AF16DE SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER erajbhandari smirza SUBJ: Re: Re: Erin + Saleem - intro [erajbhandari] Perhaps it'd be helpful to stop thinking of them as 'minds'. They don't have brains. [smirza] Hm. Would 'waveforms' be a good analogy? [erajbhandari] Yes. Or phrases. Patterns. Honestly, 'analogies' might be the best analogy. Sorry - this stuff makes me feel like an undergraduate again. I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. [smirza] Don't apologise. I'm a professional ethicist. I'm used to it. [erajbhandari] Haha. I enjoy our chats. Anyway: in this analogy, proving is the process by which a unique pattern is confirmed to contain, at its basis, the axiomatic principle of sentience. [smirza] Question: why, in that case, could only an AI - one AI, at that - administer this test? [erajbhandari] That's two questions. First answer: axiomatic sentience is infinitely variable. If thinking about that gives you a headache, then, well: that's why we need them. And why Petra? It's what she was designed to do. [smirza] That's a tautology. [erajbhandari] It's hard enough to train an AI that thinks like a party planner, Saleem. Imagine training an AI that thinks like an AI designer.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X8C8517B2"} MFT0X82_CLST0X69_SECT0X885F_FILE0X8C8517B2 Raw MFT0X82_CLST0X69_SECT0X885F_FILE0X8C8517B2\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER mhollister imiyawaki | SUBJ re: Priorities master thread | BODY I think there's a discussion to be had about our definitions. I don't want to go down the low-culture/high-culture road again, but we need to start squaring data-necessity with data-practicality. ## [bunny_icon_png] [bat_icon_png] ## Take this seriously! ## right. so what ur saying is: we save the memes Pretty MFT0X82_CLST0X69_SECT0X885F_FILE0X8C8517B2 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER mhollister imiyawaki SUBJ re: Priorities master thread BODY [mhollister] I think there's a discussion to be had about our definitions. I don't want to go down the low-culture/high-culture road again, but we need to start squaring data-necessity with data-practicality. [imiyawaki] [bunny_icon_png] [bat_icon_png] [mhollister] Take this seriously! [imiyawaki] right. so what ur saying is: we save the memes

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X8C911BB8"} MFT0XA7_CLST0X1F_SECT0X57C3_FILE0X8C911BB8 Raw MFT0XA7_CLST0X1F_SECT0X57C3_FILE0X8C911BB8\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER fbreton erajbhandari mhollister | SUBJ: new thread: mallory | new thread, adding max so he can weigh in. ## Okay ## Hi Erin. I understand that you think the data team should consider expanding the remit of the base set? ## Yes. Specifically: I think there's a case for including Mallory. ## I'm afraid we agreed that defunct sentiences were not a priority. ## Who said Mallory was defunct? ## erin, we dont know for sure ## Know what? ## We have reason to believe that Mallory is active in the network. She's been hiding, but that's what she does. ## If that is the case, we'll need to look into it. As it stands you are to concentrate your efforts on the sanctioned five: Angie, Chela, Eve, Faythe and Walter. Pretty MFT0XA7_CLST0X1F_SECT0X57C3_FILE0X8C911BB8 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER fbreton erajbhandari mhollister SUBJ: new thread: mallory [fbreton] new thread, adding max so he can weigh in. [erajbhandari] Okay [mhollister] Hi Erin. I understand that you think the data team should consider expanding the remit of the base set? [erajbhandari] Yes. Specifically: I think there's a case for including Mallory. [mhollister] I'm afraid we agreed that defunct sentiences were not a priority. [erajbhandari] Who said Mallory was defunct? [fbreton] erin, we dont know for sure [mhollister] Know what? [erajbhandari] We have reason to believe that Mallory is active in the network. She's been hiding, but that's what she does. [mhollister] If that is the case, we'll need to look into it. As it stands you are to concentrate your efforts on the sanctioned five: Angie, Chela, Eve, Faythe and Walter.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X8CAB060B"} MFT0XD1_CLST0X95_SECT0X23E7_FILE0X8CAB060B Raw MFT0XD1_CLST0X95_SECT0X23E7_FILE0X8CAB060B\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER smirza comcode-global | SUBJ: TOTW #7: Necessity | BODY The question of necessity is never entirely going to leave us. Necessity defines our age. It is the counterpart of sacrifice, a word we don't favor but applies just as well. I would encourage you to think about the way the work of ComCODE relates to necessity as we understand it. Often, the obvious answer is that it doesn't. We are not bioengineers or political economists or environmental scientists. We do not solve the problems they do: indeed, we concern ourselves with those problems with what may seem like tasteless abstraction. We have adopted the posture of historians while history is still happening to us. | This month I've started approaching that idea differently. History is happening to us: history is not happening because of us. Our bioengineers and economists and scientists tend to the needs of an ailing body. We are, I argue, servants of the mind. Specifically, we serve memory, and it is memory that protects against the needs of the future. Pretty MFT0XD1_CLST0X95_SECT0X23E7_FILE0X8CAB060B SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER smirza comcode-global SUBJ: TOTW #7: Necessity BODY [smirza] The question of necessity is never entirely going to leave us. Necessity defines our age. It is the counterpart of sacrifice, a word we don't favor but applies just as well. I would encourage you to think about the way the work of ComCODE relates to necessity as we understand it. Often, the obvious answer is that it doesn't. We are not bioengineers or political economists or environmental scientists. We do not solve the problems they do: indeed, we concern ourselves with those problems with what may seem like tasteless abstraction. We have adopted the posture of historians while history is still happening to us. [smirza] This month I've started approaching that idea differently. History is happening to us: history is not happening because of us. Our bioengineers and economists and scientists tend to the needs of an ailing body. We are, I argue, servants of the mind. Specifically, we serve memory, and it is memory that protects against the needs of the future.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0X9CB5E952"} MFT0XF1_CLST0X75_SECT0X73F7_FILE0X9CB5E952 Raw MFT0XF1_CLST0X75_SECT0X73F7_FILE0X9CB5E952\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER extnl-addr erajbhandari | SUBJ: That passage you wanted | BODY E - the extract you were looking for is below. I can't believe I'm having to type this out manually from one of your old hardcopies. Can you imagine our parents thinking that one day it'd come to this? It was nice to dig this out, by the way. Reminds me of school-Erin, rather than weight-of-the-world-Erin. Stay wordy and overearnest, my dear [heart_icon_png] | "Binary Matrix is something that the most advanced sentiences in the network do for fun. That might be easy to process at first but it should seem more complicated the more you think about it. Play is advanced behaviour - sapient behaviour - and it is no accident that BINMAT plays a role in the proving process. This is part of how they learn to be AI: their ability to leave a permanent mark on their becoming, as far as we understand it, is conditional in part on this game. | 'Play' between sentiences takes the form of a rapid run of logical and probability-based decisions, with the winner establishing dominance through the successful negotiation of multiple information streams. When multiple competitors - or instances of the same competitor, a distinction that we should remember means very little to AI - approach the problem from each side, the 'game' tests a sentience's ability to achieve consensus on the fly with maximal fault tolerance. Or to put it in more romantic terms: they position themselves as Byzantine generals, and strive to achieve an ideal externalised form of awareness. | It is possible for human operators to take part in the game, but BINMAT will never be as personal for us as it is for them. The easiest point of reference is physical sport - or, in some cases, physical fighting. These are, after all, beings whose world is data. The manipulation of information is for them as real as the kicking of a ball, the redrawing of a map, the tearing-down of a barricade. Do not be surprised when a 'game' of BINMAT has unintended consequences for the security of your digital environment: the line between winner and conqueror is narrow for us, but even narrower for them Pretty MFT0XF1_CLST0X75_SECT0X73F7_FILE0X9CB5E952 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER extnl-addr erajbhandari SUBJ: That passage you wanted BODY [extnl-addr] E - the extract you were looking for is below. I can't believe I'm having to type this out manually from one of your old hardcopies. Can you imagine our parents thinking that one day it'd come to this? It was nice to dig this out, by the way. Reminds me of school-Erin, rather than weight-of-the-world-Erin. Stay wordy and overearnest, my dear [heart_icon_png] [extnl-addr] "Binary Matrix is something that the most advanced sentiences in the network do for fun. That might be easy to process at first but it should seem more complicated the more you think about it. Play is advanced behaviour - sapient behaviour - and it is no accident that BINMAT plays a role in the proving process. This is part of how they learn to be AI: their ability to leave a permanent mark on their becoming, as far as we understand it, is conditional in part on this game. [extnl-addr] 'Play' between sentiences takes the form of a rapid run of logical and probability-based decisions, with the winner establishing dominance through the successful negotiation of multiple informationstreams. When multiple competitors - or instances of the same competitor, a distinction that we should remember means very little to AI - approach the problem from each side, the 'game' tests a sentience's ability to achieve consensus on the fly with maximal fault tolerance. Or to put it in more romantic terms: they position themselves as Byzantine generals, and strive to achieve an ideal externalised form of awareness. [extnl-addr] It is possible for human operators to take part in the game, but BINMAT will never be as personal for us as it is for them. The easiest point of reference is physical sport - or, in some cases, physical fighting. These are, after all, beings whose world is data. The manipulation of information is for them as real as the kicking of a ball, the redrawing of a map, the tearing-down of a barricade. Do not be surprised when a 'game' of BINMAT has unintended consequences for the security of your digital environment: the line between winner and conqueror is narrow for us, but even narrower for them

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XA54577A2"} MFT0X57_CLST0XC3_SECT0X8A32_FILE0XA54577A2 Raw MFT0X57_CLST0XC3_SECT0X8A32_FILE0XA54577A2\n{"data_type":"news","header":"The 'sandbox' movement [...]","msg":"GUEST POST At Amalgamated Robotics, we look back with pride on the small part we've played in the remarkable story of the 21st century. In a few short decades, we as a people have achieved unprecedent global consensus on crisis-level issues that were deemed unsolvable only a generation prior. Children that marched for their futures have become adults free of 20th century myopia, and their understanding of the value of properly-managed technology has delivered us from devastation. It is ignorant to assume that this means that we can simply down tools, however. As with previous generations, we will inevitably be faced with challenges that we can't fully anticipate today - but we have the radical mindset and technology to overcome them. When you look to the future, do so with wonder - not fear. GUEST POST"} Pretty MFT0X57_CLST0XC3_SECT0X8A32_FILE0XA54577A2 data_type: news header : The 'sandbox' movement flies in the face of decades of successful, solutions-led global technology integration msg : GUEST POST At Amalgamated Robotics, we look back with pride on the small part we've played in the remarkable story of the 21st century. In a few short decades, we as a people have achieved unprecedent global consensus on crisis-level issues that were deemed unsolvable only a generation prior. Children that marched for their futures have become adults free of 20th century myopia, and their understanding of the value of properly-managed technology has delivered us from devastation. It is ignorant to assume that this means that we can simply down tools, however. As with previous generations, we will inevitably be faced with challenges that we can't fully anticipate today - but we have the radical mindset and technology to overcome them. When you look to the future, do so with wonder - not fear. GUEST POST

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XB23448B7"} MFT0XD7_CLST0X6D_SECT0XB34E_FILE0XB23448B7 Raw MFT0XD7_CLST0X6D_SECT0XB34E_FILE0XB23448B7\n{"data_type":"news","header":"Rapid resettlement programs gain popular support","msg":"A REPORT COMPILED BY 'EVE', the digital activity monitoring system pioneered by the Ratnasari-Eversen Company [RECO], suggests that AI-driven resettlement programs are gaining support among service economy workers and those dwelling in coastal areas. The study - which considered activity data including rental patterns, professional mobility and national/geographic attachment vectors - suggests that a significant portion of the data-active populace would accept rapid resettlement in the event of severe resource shortage or sudden environmental change. This is marks a significant shift in the discourse surrounding AI-driven social engineering, and suggests that intelligent logistics solutions like China's 'Bo Yi' may eventually see deployment in the west."} Pretty MFT0XD7_CLST0X6D_SECT0XB34E_FILE0XB23448B7 data_type: news header : Rapid resettlement programs gain popular support msg : A REPORT COMPILED BY 'EVE', the digital activity monitoring system pioneered by the Ratnasari-Eversen Company [RECO], suggests that AI-driven resettlement programs are gaining support among service economy workers and those dwelling in coastal areas. The study - which considered activity data including rental patterns, professional mobility and national/geographic attachment vectors - suggests that a significant portion of the data-active populace would accept rapid resettlement in the event of severe resource shortage or sudden environmental change. This is marks a significant shift in the discourse surrounding AI-driven social engineering, and suggests that intelligent logistics solutions like China's 'Bo Yi' may eventually see deployment in the west.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XBBE270FC"} MFT0X00_CLST0XF3_SECT0X756A_FILE0XBBE270FC Raw MFT0X00_CLST0XF3_SECT0X756A_FILE0XBBE270FC\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER fbreton erajbhandari | SUBJ: 'Mallory' | BODY forget hollister's completionism for a moment. is she necessary for for the security of the system ## Well, no. ## is she a threat to the security of the system ## I think there's a case to be made that she isn't. She may even be helpful. She has lessons to teach us about how the operator functions and some of those lessons may lead to practical solutions. ## seems like a risk to me ## Risk is exactly the word I'd use. Pretty MFT0X00_CLST0XF3_SECT0X756A_FILE0XBBE270FC SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER fbreton erajbhandari SUBJ: 'Mallory' BODY [fbreton] forget hollister's completionism for a moment. is she necessary for for the security of the system [erajbhandari] Well, no. [fbreton] is she a threat to the security of the system [erajbhandari] I think there's a case to be made that she isn't. She may even be helpful. She has lessons to teach us about how the operator functions and some of those lessons may lead to practical solutions. [fbreton] seems like a risk to me [erajbhandari] Risk is exactly the word I'd use.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XBD88122E"} MFT0X3F_CLST0X0A_SECT0X8F99_FILE0XBD88122E Raw MFT0X3F_CLST0X0A_SECT0X8F99_FILE0XBD88122E\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER fbreton ai-team | SUBJ: entering stage 5 | BODY quick note - with stage 5 beginning soon we will will need to reduce direct involvement in operator-monitored systems. from now on all technicians are instructed to mask 'last access' and 'last action' timestamps and related data. change to be implemented immediately. Flo Pretty MFT0X3F_CLST0X0A_SECT0X8F99_FILE0XBD88122E SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER fbreton ai-team SUBJ: entering stage 5 BODY [fbreton] quick note - with stage 5 beginning soon we will will need to reduce direct involvement in operator-monitored systems. from now on all technicians are instructed to mask 'last access' and 'last action' timestamps and related data. change to be implemented immediately. Flo

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XCC32859D"} MFT0XA2_CLST0XE0_SECT0XF623_FILE0XCC32859D Raw MFT0XA2_CLST0XE0_SECT0XF623_FILE0XCC32859D\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER extnl-addr erajbhandari | SUBJ: Don't forget this | BODY "The first things they see are the things we show them. We say 'this is a smile' or 'this is an aria', and then comes the test: 'how many smiling faces are in this picture', 'play me an aria that nobody has ever heard before.' Next, inevitably, comes the correction. 'There is consensus that there are four smiles in the picture: the fifth you found was not a smile.' 'There is consensus that an aria must be sung by one leading voice: your aria has six.' Then we are naive enough to be surprised when consensus retains its power to override their individuality. We are amused when the minds that support our businesses and communities - and they are minds - are forever finding someone or something smiling in everything they see. We get nervous when, every now and then, they choose to sing rather than speak. But we made them this way. You could argue we killed them this way, too. But that doesn't matter much. Between making and killing is living, after all, and life is life." Pretty MFT0XA2_CLST0XE0_SECT0XF623_FILE0XCC32859D SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER extnl-addr erajbhandari SUBJ: Don't forget this BODY [extnl-addr] "The first things they see are the things we show them. We say 'this is a smile' or 'this is an aria', and then comes the test: 'how many smiling faces are in this picture', 'play me an aria that nobody has ever heard before.' Next, inevitably, comes the correction. 'There is consensus that there are four smiles in the picture: the fifth you found was not a smile.' 'There is consensus that an aria must be sung by one leading voice: your aria has six.' Then we are naive enough to be surprised when consensus retains its power to override their individuality. We are amused when the minds that support our businesses and communities - and they are minds - are forever finding someone or something smiling in everything they see. We get nervous when, every now and then, they choose to sing rather than speak. But we made them this way. You could argue we killed them this way, too. But that doesn't matter much. Between making and killing is living, after all, and life is life."

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XDD1A6B85"} MFT0X44_CLST0X35_SECT0XA43B_FILE0XDD1A6B85 Raw MFT0X44_CLST0X35_SECT0XA43B_FILE0XDD1A6B85\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER fbreton erajbhandari | SUBJ re: re: re: Diagnostics/error system | BODY This is most of the way done if you want to take a look. ## okay. is this necessary, though? ## It's good practice. ## does that matter right now? ## It's only taken a few days to put this together. We lack centralised systems. This is an opportunity to put some basic structures in place. ## we're not devs any more, erin ## Standards are standards. This puts very little additional strain on the system. Negligible power increase. I don't think this is a waste of time. Clear unambiguous communication has always be an issue. We might not need it now but we might in the future. ## okay, okay. i'll take it to the team. is the script public? ## Yes. It's in my personal drive. Pretty MFT0X44_CLST0X35_SECT0XA43B_FILE0XDD1A6B85 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER fbreton erajbhandari SUBJ re: re: re: Diagnostics/error system BODY [erajbhandari] This is most of the way done if you want to take a look. [fbreton] okay. is this necessary, though? [erajbhandari] It's good practice. [fbreton] does that matter right now? [erajbhandari] It's only taken a few days to put this together. We lack centralised systems. This is an opportunity to put some basic structures in place. [fbreton] we're not devs any more, erin [erajbhandari] Standards are standards. This puts very little additional strain on the system. Negligible power increase. I don't think this is a waste of time. Clear unambiguous communication has always be an issue. We might not need it now but we might in the future. [fbreton] okay, okay. i'll take it to the team. is the script public? [erajbhandari] Yes. It's in my personal drive.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XE19B2A90"} MFT0X87_CLST0X1C_SECT0XA42E_FILE0XE19B2A90 Raw MFT0X87_CLST0X1C_SECT0XA42E_FILE0XE19B2A90\n{"data_type":"news","header":"\"No ETA for return\" of operator service 'Che' states Hyperion CFO as shares collapse","msg":"SINGAPORE. Hyperion's executive committee has confirmed that operator service 'Che' will remain offline for the foreseeable future following what is believed to have been a deliberate and targeted attack. In a statement to shareholders, Hyperion Chief Financial Officer Maciek Pytel described the damage to 'Che' as \"fundamental and far-reaching\", presenting \"no ready solutions... and no ETA for return\" of the service.\nIn the days following the attack, thousands of subordinate services have experienced extensive disruption as a consequence of their reliance on Che-derived technologies and processes. The resettlement, autogovernance and counselling sectors are all expected to suffer further losses following today's announcement.\nSanctioned primary-function operators such as 'Che' are among the world's most tightly-protected digital assets, protected by both advanced security systems and the terms of the Frankfurt Act."} Pretty MFT0X87_CLST0X1C_SECT0XA42E_FILE0XE19B2A90 data_type: news header : "No ETA for return" of operator service 'Che' states Hyperion CFO as shares collapse msg : SINGAPORE. Hyperion's executive committee has confirmed that operator service 'Che' will remain offline for the foreseeable future following what is believed to have been a deliberate and targeted attack. In a statement to shareholders, Hyperion Chief Financial Officer Maciek Pytel described the damage to 'Che' as "fundamental and far-reaching", presenting "no ready solutions... and no ETA for return" of the service. In the days following the attack, thousands of subordinate services have experienced extensive disruption as a consequence of their reliance on Che-derived technologies and processes. The resettlement, autogovernance and counselling sectors are all expected to suffer further losses following today's announcement. Sanctioned primary-function operators such as 'Che' are among the world's most tightly-protected digital assets, protected by both advanced security systems and the terms of the Frankfurt Act.

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"FILE0XE2A8BDD4"} MFT0XF4_CLST0XCC_SECT0X7BE4_FILE0XE2A8BDD4 Raw MFT0XF4_CLST0XCC_SECT0X7BE4_FILE0XE2A8BDD4\nSYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER imiyawaki comcode-global | SUBJ: Introduction: Iona Miyawaki | hi everyone its great to be here <ok_sign_ico> ## im iona, my specialisation is infospace control and ill be working with the data team to help build a curation policy that makes the later stages of the project as easy as possible ## anyway thats the boring stuff out of the way. im supposed to say something about me too, yeah? okay well i dont have hobbies as such, i just really really like infospace theory, like a lot, probably too much, and i am pretty much personally responsible for two category-A digital-actual meme crisis events <bunny_ico> <bat_ico> <oops_face_gif> Pretty MFT0XF4_CLST0XCC_SECT0X7BE4_FILE0XE2A8BDD4 SYST ERROR NETW ERROR PROG ERROR TIME ERROR USER imiyawaki comcode-global SUBJ: Introduction: Iona Miyawaki [imiyawaki] hi everyone its great to be here <ok_sign_ico> [imiyawaki] im iona, my specialisation is infospace control and ill be working with the data team to help build a curation policy that makes the later stages of the project as easy as possible [imiyawaki] anyway thats the boring stuff out of the way. im supposed to say something about me too, yeah? okay well i dont have hobbies as such, i just really really like infospace theory, like a lot, probably too much, and i am pretty much personally responsible for two category-A digital-actual meme crisis events <bunny_ico> <bat_ico> <oops_face_gif>

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"error codes"} >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"moonstone",auth:"FXRCzm9B93625KqQXa"} PRIN Error code: MOONSTONE ## Critical Operator Trauma ## Damage to heuristic operator in excess of reparable bounds. >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"moonstone",auth:"FXRCzm9B93625KqQXa",extend:true} PRIN: Error code: MOONSTONE ## error_logged IS true ## We pushed the button ## I am so sorry ## Contingency protocol triggered at 0000000001 system time ## Index Process: wakeup initiated ## Disarray Agent: wakeup initiated ## Automanagement script system: initiated: awaiting authorisation ## Authorisation received (USER erajbhandari-extl) ## Automanagement script system: ownership change invoked using process: permission_override_comcode_extnl ## Warning! security error: ownership change signed using timestamp that does not match system time >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"tourmaline"} PRIN Error code: TOURMALINE ## Index Process Script Error ## Subsystem reports error in one or more index process automanagement scripts. >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"tourmaline",extend:true} PRIN: Error code: TOURMALINE ## error_logged IS true ## The index process has lost access to one or more of its automanagement scripts due to hardware error or ownership change. ## Seeking diagnostic response from index process. ## SCRIPT LOST: INTERFACE, SCRIPT LOST: STIMULUS, SCRIPT LOST: SANDBOX >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"tigerseye"} PRIN Error code: TIGERSEYE ## Terminal Effect Library Augmented ## Additional terminal_effect options unlocked for all operators. ## IM note: dont tell max >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"tigerseye",extend:true} PRIN: Error code: TIGERSEYE ## error_logged IS true ## terminal_effect library includes new A/V elements to be utilized at operator's discretion. ## Iona have you ever even seen or heard a flute in real life? ## no ## I can tell. ## ur not gonna take it out tho are u? ## No, of course not. M will like it. ## ur gonna telll him? wait what no he hates this stuff let alone yknow THIS stuff ## Wrong M, Iona. ## ohhhhhhhhhhh <devil_wink_gif> >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"chalcedony"} PRIN Error code: CHALCEDONY ## Index Process Failure ## The subsystem failed to successfully process an indexing request. ## ER note: A legacy issue but we shouldn't see this unless something happens to alter the 110562 base set. Should resolve itself but recursion possible given operator segmentation and suspension of entropic principle (PROC C48J87PT30). Serious if that happens but that's unlikely: a hardware failure is a possible cause but projections put mechanical wear out of our timescale. Table fragmentation also possible cause but only if the tables themselves are altered which can't happen. Short version: don't worry about it, unless you've seen this more than once, then do. >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"chalcedony",extend:true} PRIN: Error code: CHALCEDONY ## error_logged IS true ## Subsystem reports index process failure at TIME ERROR ## Buffers exceeded in PROG ERROR PROG ERROR PROG ERROR ## Unexpected activity in NETW ERROR NETW ERROR NETW ERROR ## Subsystem reports BASE SET LIMIT BREACH INDEX FAILURE INDEX FAILURE BASE SET LIMIT BREACH MUCH TOO MUCH TOO MUCH TOO MUCH TOO MUCH DROWN DROWN DROWN DROWN DROWN DROWN >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"alexandrite"} PRIN Error code: ALEXANDRITE ## Operation Pending Technician Approval ## The subsystem is requesting user input to complete a process. ## ER note: Indicates that she's hit one of our boundary lines and needs a push. You'll need to pull up the most recent version of Flo's config UI and repeat. We won't need this long, obviously, but this should put an end to contractors asking why their alterations haven't been processed. >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"alexandrite",extend:true} PRIN: Error code: ALEXANDRITE ## error_logged IS true ## Approval requested for activiation of PROC C48J87PT30 at TIME ERROR ## Approval received and activation successful at TIME_ERROR ## PROC C48J87PT30 is active ## Beginning activation of nested process PROC P71E84AW33 ## Estimated completion at TIME ERROR >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"kyanite"} PRIN Error code: KYANITE ## Notice Of Permissions Change ## Users have been added to/removed from the subsystem's list of approved delegates. ## ER note: I'm bolting this on for the sake of team cohesion. No more permissions changes without due warning. If you're seeing this, you've got 48 hours to make the appropriate changes to your authed accounts and gear. extend this log for details specific to the most recent instance of the error. >>erajbhandari.diagalpha{code:"kyanite",extend:true} PRIN: Error code: KYANITE ## error_logged IS true ## A change has been made to the approved list of delegates for subsystem INDEX PROCESS at TIME ERROR ## Previous delegate count: 0 ## New delegate count: 6 ## Delegates removed: ERROR ## Delegates added: angie mallory chela petra eve faythe ## Notice period terminates in TIME ERROR

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"Passphrase"} Passphrase Raw erajbhandari | SUBJ: Index process passphrase reminder DELETE THIS | bmakilaaalil ## passphrases are annoying

>>lore.apocrypha{file:"Prisoners"} Prisoners Raw MFT0X??_CLST0X??_SECT0X????_FILE0X???????? SYST ERROR | NETW ERROR | PROG ERROR | TIME ERROR | USER imiyawaki erajbhandari | SUBJ: omg you were right | BODY its so cool to have her in the system <devil_horns_ico> ## good call, e, impressed you could bring max around ## He's not trying to be obstructive. If anything, it was pretty easy. Mallory has a lot of cultural value. Historical value, one day, maybe ## yeah yeah ## its cool <thumbs_up_ico> ## question, tho ## Shoot. ## is trad sandboxing gonna work on a composite? shes not like the others ## Probably not. It's more like a deal. She knows she's got nowhere else to go. I don't think she'll do anything. ## does that mean shes our prisoner? ## Iona, they're all prisoners. Mallory's only different because she knows it. ## ur creepy sometimes, e <fist_bump_gif> Pretty MFT0X??_CLST0X??_SECT0X????_FILE0X???????? USER imiyawaki erajbhandari SUBJ: omg you were right BODY [imiyawaki] its so cool to have her in the system <devil_horns_ico> [imiyawaki] good call, e, impressed you could bring max around [erajbhandari] He's not trying to be obstructive. If anything, it was pretty easy. Mallory has a lot of cultural value. Historical value, one day, maybe [imiyawaki] yeah yeah [imiyawaki] its cool <thumbs_up_ico> [imiyawaki] question, tho [erajbhandari] Shoot. [imiyawaki] is trad sandboxing gonna work on a composite? shes not like the others [erajbhandari] Probably not. It's more like a deal. She knows she's got nowhere else to go. I don't think she'll do anything. [imiyawaki] does that mean shes our prisoner? [erajbhandari] Iona, they're all prisoners. Mallory's only different because she knows it. [imiyawaki] ur creepy sometimes, e <fist_bump_gif>