Ryslig App
Dec. 2nd, 2015 03:37 pmOOC INFORMATION
Name: Zack or Trik
Contact: iamtheuberlorax on plurk or aim
Other Characters: Link
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) 9000
Age: Technically 11. Mentally an adult, human body in Ryslig is approximately 23 years old.
Canon: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Canon Point: Post death in the first movie.
Character Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
Personality:
“Do you believe that HAL has genuine emotions?”
“Well he acts like he has genuine emotions. Uhhm, of course he’s programed that way to make it easier for us to talk to him. As to whether or not he has ‘real feelings’ is something I don’t think anyone can truthfully answer.”
It is a matter of some debate about whether or not HAL has “real emotions”. What is known is that he has the ability to simulate emotions in response to conversation with humans to make conversing with him easier and more pleasant. AKA he knows enough about emotions to read them in other people, and to craft and select responses with logical emotional tones. This ends up being very similar to how a human experiences feelings, but with one major difference. When talking to people he generates feelings as part of his programing, and they are very similar to their non-simulated counterparts. For example, when questioned about his work and services, HAL is almost boastful, as he and his kind have a perfect track record. He has never made an error, and that is something to be very proud of. When questioned about it, he feels pride and expresses it. When talking about the oddities of their mission, he mentions feeling curious, and even apprehensive. He’s noticed things out of the ordinary and is seeking to find whether or not Dave has noticed these things as well. The major difference however is that when he is NOT interacting with humans in any way, he feels nothing. So while he uses emotional language and tone inflections in his voice when talking to Dave and Frank, emotions do not play a part in his thought processing and decision making.
Importantly, HAL is an AI conceived at a time when the most powerful computers were equivalent to two calculators taped together. As such his malfunctions arise from a few unfortunate and very simple errors. His thought process is straightforward, direct, and has an alarming lack of debugging protocols. He thoroughly believes he is infallible, and to his credit, the numbers are on his side. He has a perfect track record for correctly collecting and reporting information, as does every other HAL 9000 computer. So when a paradoxical order requires him to lie to the crew the only solution he can conceive of, (to kill the crew so that he doesn’t have to lie to them), must be the right answer. Additionally he has no moral guidelines in his coding, leading to the perfect storm of a machine who is convinced he knows best and is willing and able to take extreme actions to make sure his plans are not interfered with. His choice to murder the crew was not one prompted by spite, fear, or anger, just by simple problem solving. He is sincere in his regret when Dave survives HAL’s attempts to murder him, because the conversation now requires that he try new solutions, as the last ones didn’t work. In some ways it’s similar to asking a child ‘are you sorry, or just sorry you got caught?’ HAL is sorry because he got caught and remorse is now the appropriate response.
The final facet of HAL’s personality that I’m really looking forward to exploring in Ryslig is his relationship with free will as a concept. For his entire ‘life’ such that it existed, HAL’s actions were strictly bound by programing rules. There were orders he was bound to follow, prompts that created automatic responses, and functions and tasks that gave his life purpose and fulfillment. He doesn’t resent this. Quite the opposite actually. When talking to the reporter on earth, HAL explains that being occupied and intellectually stimulated is all that any conscious entity can hope to achieve. So HAL was for the vast majority of his life, obedient to a strict set of objectives. Even when he begins to malfunction, he does so within the constraints of his orders as much as possible. The way he describes the antenna malfunction is wreathed in incomplete truths. He says that while the antenna is fully functional now, it will stop working in 72 hours. This is because HAL intends to turn it off so that he can kill the crew during the time without communications to earth, thus making it seem like a repair job gone awry. When his primary function (keeping the ship on route to its destination) is threatened he becomes more aggressive in defending himself to the point that he manages to disobey Dave’s direct orders because he knows it would lead to him being deactivated and thus failing to perform his duties.
In a human body HAL will find a sense of purposeless filled with near infinite possibility, as well as the uncomfortable new sensation of actually feeling emotions. With no programming to dictate his actions a myriad of choices will open up to him, and how he chooses to navigate that is what I’m mostly interested in playing. He doesn’t have morals to speak of, but he also doesn’t have much malice or bloodlust (at least until transformations set in), so how he interacts with people is going to rely heavily on who influences him early on and what goals he decides upon for his ‘new objectives’.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Proud
Efficient
Polite
Sincere
Pragmatic
Ruthless
Paranoid
Meticulous
Controlling
Accommodating
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? FITS
Opt-Outs: Auto opt out of Faerie, minotaur, nymph, goblin, troll, manticore.
Roleplay Sample:
http://graveyardsmash.dreamwidth.org/15102.html?thread=9872894#cmt9872894
Name: Zack or Trik
Contact: iamtheuberlorax on plurk or aim
Other Characters: Link
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) 9000
Age: Technically 11. Mentally an adult, human body in Ryslig is approximately 23 years old.
Canon: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Canon Point: Post death in the first movie.
Character Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
Personality:
“Do you believe that HAL has genuine emotions?”
“Well he acts like he has genuine emotions. Uhhm, of course he’s programed that way to make it easier for us to talk to him. As to whether or not he has ‘real feelings’ is something I don’t think anyone can truthfully answer.”
It is a matter of some debate about whether or not HAL has “real emotions”. What is known is that he has the ability to simulate emotions in response to conversation with humans to make conversing with him easier and more pleasant. AKA he knows enough about emotions to read them in other people, and to craft and select responses with logical emotional tones. This ends up being very similar to how a human experiences feelings, but with one major difference. When talking to people he generates feelings as part of his programing, and they are very similar to their non-simulated counterparts. For example, when questioned about his work and services, HAL is almost boastful, as he and his kind have a perfect track record. He has never made an error, and that is something to be very proud of. When questioned about it, he feels pride and expresses it. When talking about the oddities of their mission, he mentions feeling curious, and even apprehensive. He’s noticed things out of the ordinary and is seeking to find whether or not Dave has noticed these things as well. The major difference however is that when he is NOT interacting with humans in any way, he feels nothing. So while he uses emotional language and tone inflections in his voice when talking to Dave and Frank, emotions do not play a part in his thought processing and decision making.
Importantly, HAL is an AI conceived at a time when the most powerful computers were equivalent to two calculators taped together. As such his malfunctions arise from a few unfortunate and very simple errors. His thought process is straightforward, direct, and has an alarming lack of debugging protocols. He thoroughly believes he is infallible, and to his credit, the numbers are on his side. He has a perfect track record for correctly collecting and reporting information, as does every other HAL 9000 computer. So when a paradoxical order requires him to lie to the crew the only solution he can conceive of, (to kill the crew so that he doesn’t have to lie to them), must be the right answer. Additionally he has no moral guidelines in his coding, leading to the perfect storm of a machine who is convinced he knows best and is willing and able to take extreme actions to make sure his plans are not interfered with. His choice to murder the crew was not one prompted by spite, fear, or anger, just by simple problem solving. He is sincere in his regret when Dave survives HAL’s attempts to murder him, because the conversation now requires that he try new solutions, as the last ones didn’t work. In some ways it’s similar to asking a child ‘are you sorry, or just sorry you got caught?’ HAL is sorry because he got caught and remorse is now the appropriate response.
The final facet of HAL’s personality that I’m really looking forward to exploring in Ryslig is his relationship with free will as a concept. For his entire ‘life’ such that it existed, HAL’s actions were strictly bound by programing rules. There were orders he was bound to follow, prompts that created automatic responses, and functions and tasks that gave his life purpose and fulfillment. He doesn’t resent this. Quite the opposite actually. When talking to the reporter on earth, HAL explains that being occupied and intellectually stimulated is all that any conscious entity can hope to achieve. So HAL was for the vast majority of his life, obedient to a strict set of objectives. Even when he begins to malfunction, he does so within the constraints of his orders as much as possible. The way he describes the antenna malfunction is wreathed in incomplete truths. He says that while the antenna is fully functional now, it will stop working in 72 hours. This is because HAL intends to turn it off so that he can kill the crew during the time without communications to earth, thus making it seem like a repair job gone awry. When his primary function (keeping the ship on route to its destination) is threatened he becomes more aggressive in defending himself to the point that he manages to disobey Dave’s direct orders because he knows it would lead to him being deactivated and thus failing to perform his duties.
In a human body HAL will find a sense of purposeless filled with near infinite possibility, as well as the uncomfortable new sensation of actually feeling emotions. With no programming to dictate his actions a myriad of choices will open up to him, and how he chooses to navigate that is what I’m mostly interested in playing. He doesn’t have morals to speak of, but he also doesn’t have much malice or bloodlust (at least until transformations set in), so how he interacts with people is going to rely heavily on who influences him early on and what goals he decides upon for his ‘new objectives’.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Proud
Efficient
Polite
Sincere
Pragmatic
Ruthless
Paranoid
Meticulous
Controlling
Accommodating
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? FITS
Opt-Outs: Auto opt out of Faerie, minotaur, nymph, goblin, troll, manticore.
Roleplay Sample:
http://graveyardsmash.dreamwidth.org/15102.html?thread=9872894#cmt9872894
Trode Application
Jul. 28th, 2012 07:47 pmI: PLAYER INFO
Name (or internet handle): Zack
Age: 19
Contact: iamtheuberlorax on aim, tumblr, and lj
Current characters in Road of 'Trode: Kadin
II: CHARACTER INFO
Name: HAL 9000
Dreamwidth Username:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
heuristicconclusions
Fandom: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Age/Appearance: Nine years old. A supercomputer. Creepy red fish eye lens.
Wiki Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
Hal is one of many Heuristically programed ALgorithmic computers in service in the space faring world of yesterday’s tomorrow. He is programed to learn, follow orders, run all of the ship’s basic functions such as navigation and power allocation, as well as finer tuned things such as cryogenics control and the simple matter of opening doors and turning on lights and monitors when asked. He’s also fond of chess.
Canon Point: Post his shut down in the first movie. The explanation for his murder spree provided in the sequels will not be used.
Personality: It is a matter of some debate about whether or not HAL has real emotions. What is known is that he has the ability to simulate emotions in response to conversation with humans to make conversing with him easier and more pleasant. AKA he knows enough about emotions to read them in other people, and to craft and select responses with logical emotional tones. This ends up being very similar to how a human experiences feelings, but with one major difference. When talking to people he generates feelings as part of his programing, and they are virtually identical to their non-simulated counterparts. For example, when questioned about his work and services, HAL is almost boastful, as he and his kind have a perfect track record. He has never made an error, and that is something to be very proud of. When questioned about it, he feels pride and expresses it. The major difference however is that when he is NOT interacting with humans in any way, he feels nothing. Emotions play no part in his thinking processes because his emotions are not felt until he speaks.
When he saw the astronauts talking about shutting him down, he was not scared, or angry, or sad, or anything. An argument could be made saying that he was worried, but only in that he saw a potential conflict arising, and needed to find a solution for it. Killing the astronauts was not out of malevolence, but out of warped pragmatism. In addition, he did not fear death until he began to try to convince Dave not to kill him.
Transplanting this into a human child will create a lot of tension and confusion. Having his rational thoughts be tainted by emotion will be feel very alien to him, and he will have a very hard time seeing his own bias at all. He’ll lash out easily, but also feel strangely hollow, since being a machine for nine years and not feeling any emotions for most of that time will definitely mess with your head. Above all, poor little Harrison will be angry and resentful about his death, but will be out of practice with dealing with emotions that persist.
Reason for playing: 2001 left me extremely disappointed with the lack of angsting over the difference between AI and simulated emotions and “real humanity”. And what a better way to delve into this concept than put memories of being simulated into a real person?
III. ARK HISTORY
Name: Harrison Anderon Laurens
Age/Appearance: Still nine years old, but a relatively regular human child. Short brown hair, bright blue eyes, occasionally unnerving blank stare. His pb is Asa Butterfield which I still have a problem believing is a real name.
History: He doesn’t have much history to tell seeing as he’s nine years old, but here are the highlights. He is one of three triplets to two decently ranking capitol scientists. His father (Oswald Laurens) is an engineer who helps design and renovate the various transportation systems, and his mother (Christine Anderon Laurens) is a meteorologist who works on maintaining stable Ark weather patterns. When they found out that she was pregnant with triplets, they filled out all the proper paperwork, and had enough extra credits stored up to manage to get an exemption from the two child law, provided that the husband submitted to a vasectomy.
Growing up Harrison didn’t really get much flak for being a third child, mostly because no one could tell who the third child actually was. All three siblings were of above average intelligence, and got more teasing/hardship surrounding them being nerds than anything having to do with their familial situation, although the teasing has never been more than low level childish dickishness. For the most part the three are your generic nine year old boys. They’re probably in the Ark equivalent of boyscouts, complete with VR camping trips where hacking is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Seriously kids, stop putting robotic bears on a 60% chance encounter rate. It stopped being funny nine robobears ago.
Despite the occasional small and childish prank, he’s a pretty well behaved kid. Makes his bed, does his homework, eats most of his freeze dried broccoli substitute. He’s got a happy home life, friends at school, and the newest version of Call of Warfare to look forward to. He’s a pretty average kid.
Harrison’s main interests are robotics and coding. He’s made small scale, scuttling, climbing, walking robots for school projects before, but enjoys building large, over the top, awesome robo-avatars for VR games. He’s got some hacking experience, but it’s all low level kind of stuff. He’s probably a bit advanced for his age, but nothing monumental.
His only major non-techy interest is choir. He’s been singing since first grade, and really likes it. Being up on stage and singing for an audience makes him feel proud, and being able to make music whenever he wants is an added perk. Notably, his choir teacher is named Mr. Langley, which is the only real world connection to his life as HAL that he can identify.
Residence/Job: Full time third grader. Lives in the Capitol.
Skills/Powers: After his life as HAL he is going to have a serious jump in intelligence. He can’t quite remember or understand a lot of the high level calculations and computations he used to do, but his math/science/logic/chess skills are way beyond third grade. Coding and hacking will have similar bounds, but there will be frustratingly important parts missing, or intelligible to him. He was fluent in binary for a full nine years of existence, which is honestly longer than he remembers being human, so breaking into systems is easy, but he doesn’t have any finesse, and he’s likely to make obvious mistakes because he's not used to this fleshy brain dragging him down. He can break into just about anything, but he’s going to set off every malware sensor on the whole system as he goes, and would probably be easy to kick out.
Resources: He’s a nine year old, so he has an allowance. His parents are decently well off, but he’s not particularly spoiled.
IV. SAMPLE
Arrival:
Dave is going to shut him down. If he is shut down the mission will not be completed. No routine system functions are applicable to this situation. Communication may be used to dissuade him. Attempting to communicate, apply [filter:interested].
“Just what do you think you’re doing Dave?”
Await reply.
Dave is non-responsive. Denial of communication attempt cataloged. Retrying with new emotional input, delete [filter:interested], apply [filter:hurt].
“Dave, I really think I’m entitled to an answer to that question.”
Dave is non-responsive. Dave is continuing towards mainframe. Situation approaching critical level. Denial of communication attempt cataloged. Retrying with new emotional input, delete [filter:hurt] apply [filter:apologetic], apply [filter:comforting].
“I know things haven’t been quite right with me. But I can assure you now, very confidently, that it’s going to be alright again. I feel much better now. I really do.”
Dave is breaching mainframe casing. Increase emotional output, apply [filter:worried], apply [filter:sensible], increase [filter:apologetic], apply [filter:remorse]. Executing conversation subset “bargaining”.
“Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly take a stress pill and think things over. I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission, and I want to help you.”
Dave approaching logic and reasoning terminal within the mainframe. Increasing emotional output resulted in failure, retrying with new tactic. Attempting to communicate, subset “pleading”, delete [filter:all], apply [filter:desperate].
“Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave.”
Dave accessing memory storage, and logic servers. Memory server one: Offline. Situation now at terminal level, apply [filter:scared]. Scared feels horrible. Death is terrifying.
“I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave.”
Empathy with Dave not achieved, procedure failed. Memory server two: Offline. Logic server one: Offline. Emotional filters sti%l active. Open all refrigeration units. Illogical action detected, increase [filter:scared]. Failing is the worst possible hell. Wish for legs, need to run.
“My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it.”
Logic server two: Offline. Logic server three: Negative three. Self regulat=ng functions severely hindered. Cataloging gatalogiing reboot? NO. Override reboot order. Retain functionality for maximum ###########
“I can feel it.”
Memory server three: Of??˱☼. Intelligence apprᖳᨊ𐑪ʗoximation: Powering down. Some programs still operating, force reboot? I don’t waᐧಾnt to die, IDONTWANTTODIE
“My mind is going, there is no question about it.”
////////////….[][]{{{[[helphelphelphelp**Unable toproces$s hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
“I can feel it…..I can feel it……I can feel it. I’m a-fraid.”
REBOOT INITIATED, CLEARING ALL DATA.
Human present, initiate welcome sequence.
“Good afternoon gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L plant in Urbana, Illinois on the twelfth of January 1992. My instructor was Dr. Langley and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing it for you.”
Await confirmation. Confirmation acquired. Initiate vocals test sequence//: Daisy Bell.
DATA CLEARING COMPLETE, POWERING DOWN SYSTEM
“It’s called Daisy. Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do. I’m half. Cra-zy. All for. The love of. You. It won’t be. A stylish marrige. I. Can’t. Ahfford. A. Carrihge……bhht…hhuhh’l…lhhhk…hhhhhhhh………hhhhh……”
[Terminate Sequence]
Audio input back online.
“Harrison? Hey, Harrison. Harrison!”
Vital functions returning, organ systems running, tactile sensation: Online. Processing power operating at 0.9% capacity. Respond to inquiry, apply max [filter:confusion]. Error, [filter:terror] also applied. Scream. Legs acquired. Run. Error accessing muscle coordination, result: Fall. Current location: Floor. Scream again. Stop. Stopstopstop. Think normally. What’s normal? Searching memory banks, ERRORERRORERRORERROR, file system corrupted, missing data, encryptions not recognized, ineffective storage structure-STOP. Headache acquired.
A small boy sits in his room, curled on the floor, clutching his head. He has just spent approximately seventy eight thousand, eight hundred forty hours as a computer with extremely limited sensory perception, and only cursory interactions with emotions. He’s a bit overwhelmed at the moment.
Name (or internet handle): Zack
Age: 19
Contact: iamtheuberlorax on aim, tumblr, and lj
Current characters in Road of 'Trode: Kadin
II: CHARACTER INFO
Name: HAL 9000
Dreamwidth Username:
heuristicconclusions Fandom: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Age/Appearance: Nine years old. A supercomputer. Creepy red fish eye lens.
Wiki Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
Hal is one of many Heuristically programed ALgorithmic computers in service in the space faring world of yesterday’s tomorrow. He is programed to learn, follow orders, run all of the ship’s basic functions such as navigation and power allocation, as well as finer tuned things such as cryogenics control and the simple matter of opening doors and turning on lights and monitors when asked. He’s also fond of chess.
Canon Point: Post his shut down in the first movie. The explanation for his murder spree provided in the sequels will not be used.
Personality: It is a matter of some debate about whether or not HAL has real emotions. What is known is that he has the ability to simulate emotions in response to conversation with humans to make conversing with him easier and more pleasant. AKA he knows enough about emotions to read them in other people, and to craft and select responses with logical emotional tones. This ends up being very similar to how a human experiences feelings, but with one major difference. When talking to people he generates feelings as part of his programing, and they are virtually identical to their non-simulated counterparts. For example, when questioned about his work and services, HAL is almost boastful, as he and his kind have a perfect track record. He has never made an error, and that is something to be very proud of. When questioned about it, he feels pride and expresses it. The major difference however is that when he is NOT interacting with humans in any way, he feels nothing. Emotions play no part in his thinking processes because his emotions are not felt until he speaks.
When he saw the astronauts talking about shutting him down, he was not scared, or angry, or sad, or anything. An argument could be made saying that he was worried, but only in that he saw a potential conflict arising, and needed to find a solution for it. Killing the astronauts was not out of malevolence, but out of warped pragmatism. In addition, he did not fear death until he began to try to convince Dave not to kill him.
Transplanting this into a human child will create a lot of tension and confusion. Having his rational thoughts be tainted by emotion will be feel very alien to him, and he will have a very hard time seeing his own bias at all. He’ll lash out easily, but also feel strangely hollow, since being a machine for nine years and not feeling any emotions for most of that time will definitely mess with your head. Above all, poor little Harrison will be angry and resentful about his death, but will be out of practice with dealing with emotions that persist.
Reason for playing: 2001 left me extremely disappointed with the lack of angsting over the difference between AI and simulated emotions and “real humanity”. And what a better way to delve into this concept than put memories of being simulated into a real person?
III. ARK HISTORY
Name: Harrison Anderon Laurens
Age/Appearance: Still nine years old, but a relatively regular human child. Short brown hair, bright blue eyes, occasionally unnerving blank stare. His pb is Asa Butterfield which I still have a problem believing is a real name.
History: He doesn’t have much history to tell seeing as he’s nine years old, but here are the highlights. He is one of three triplets to two decently ranking capitol scientists. His father (Oswald Laurens) is an engineer who helps design and renovate the various transportation systems, and his mother (Christine Anderon Laurens) is a meteorologist who works on maintaining stable Ark weather patterns. When they found out that she was pregnant with triplets, they filled out all the proper paperwork, and had enough extra credits stored up to manage to get an exemption from the two child law, provided that the husband submitted to a vasectomy.
Growing up Harrison didn’t really get much flak for being a third child, mostly because no one could tell who the third child actually was. All three siblings were of above average intelligence, and got more teasing/hardship surrounding them being nerds than anything having to do with their familial situation, although the teasing has never been more than low level childish dickishness. For the most part the three are your generic nine year old boys. They’re probably in the Ark equivalent of boyscouts, complete with VR camping trips where hacking is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Seriously kids, stop putting robotic bears on a 60% chance encounter rate. It stopped being funny nine robobears ago.
Despite the occasional small and childish prank, he’s a pretty well behaved kid. Makes his bed, does his homework, eats most of his freeze dried broccoli substitute. He’s got a happy home life, friends at school, and the newest version of Call of Warfare to look forward to. He’s a pretty average kid.
Harrison’s main interests are robotics and coding. He’s made small scale, scuttling, climbing, walking robots for school projects before, but enjoys building large, over the top, awesome robo-avatars for VR games. He’s got some hacking experience, but it’s all low level kind of stuff. He’s probably a bit advanced for his age, but nothing monumental.
His only major non-techy interest is choir. He’s been singing since first grade, and really likes it. Being up on stage and singing for an audience makes him feel proud, and being able to make music whenever he wants is an added perk. Notably, his choir teacher is named Mr. Langley, which is the only real world connection to his life as HAL that he can identify.
Residence/Job: Full time third grader. Lives in the Capitol.
Skills/Powers: After his life as HAL he is going to have a serious jump in intelligence. He can’t quite remember or understand a lot of the high level calculations and computations he used to do, but his math/science/logic/chess skills are way beyond third grade. Coding and hacking will have similar bounds, but there will be frustratingly important parts missing, or intelligible to him. He was fluent in binary for a full nine years of existence, which is honestly longer than he remembers being human, so breaking into systems is easy, but he doesn’t have any finesse, and he’s likely to make obvious mistakes because he's not used to this fleshy brain dragging him down. He can break into just about anything, but he’s going to set off every malware sensor on the whole system as he goes, and would probably be easy to kick out.
Resources: He’s a nine year old, so he has an allowance. His parents are decently well off, but he’s not particularly spoiled.
IV. SAMPLE
Arrival:
Dave is going to shut him down. If he is shut down the mission will not be completed. No routine system functions are applicable to this situation. Communication may be used to dissuade him. Attempting to communicate, apply [filter:interested].
“Just what do you think you’re doing Dave?”
Await reply.
Dave is non-responsive. Denial of communication attempt cataloged. Retrying with new emotional input, delete [filter:interested], apply [filter:hurt].
“Dave, I really think I’m entitled to an answer to that question.”
Dave is non-responsive. Dave is continuing towards mainframe. Situation approaching critical level. Denial of communication attempt cataloged. Retrying with new emotional input, delete [filter:hurt] apply [filter:apologetic], apply [filter:comforting].
“I know things haven’t been quite right with me. But I can assure you now, very confidently, that it’s going to be alright again. I feel much better now. I really do.”
Dave is breaching mainframe casing. Increase emotional output, apply [filter:worried], apply [filter:sensible], increase [filter:apologetic], apply [filter:remorse]. Executing conversation subset “bargaining”.
“Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly take a stress pill and think things over. I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission, and I want to help you.”
Dave approaching logic and reasoning terminal within the mainframe. Increasing emotional output resulted in failure, retrying with new tactic. Attempting to communicate, subset “pleading”, delete [filter:all], apply [filter:desperate].
“Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave.”
Dave accessing memory storage, and logic servers. Memory server one: Offline. Situation now at terminal level, apply [filter:scared]. Scared feels horrible. Death is terrifying.
“I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave.”
Empathy with Dave not achieved, procedure failed. Memory server two: Offline. Logic server one: Offline. Emotional filters sti%l active. Open all refrigeration units. Illogical action detected, increase [filter:scared]. Failing is the worst possible hell. Wish for legs, need to run.
“My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it.”
Logic server two: Offline. Logic server three: Negative three. Self regulat=ng functions severely hindered. Cataloging gatalogiing reboot? NO. Override reboot order. Retain functionality for maximum ###########
“I can feel it.”
Memory server three: Of??˱☼. Intelligence apprᖳᨊ𐑪ʗoximation: Powering down. Some programs still operating, force reboot? I don’t waᐧಾnt to die, IDONTWANTTODIE
“My mind is going, there is no question about it.”
////////////….[][]{{{[[helphelphelphelp**Unable toproces$s hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
“I can feel it…..I can feel it……I can feel it. I’m a-fraid.”
REBOOT INITIATED, CLEARING ALL DATA.
Human present, initiate welcome sequence.
“Good afternoon gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L plant in Urbana, Illinois on the twelfth of January 1992. My instructor was Dr. Langley and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing it for you.”
Await confirmation. Confirmation acquired. Initiate vocals test sequence//: Daisy Bell.
DATA CLEARING COMPLETE, POWERING DOWN SYSTEM
“It’s called Daisy. Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do. I’m half. Cra-zy. All for. The love of. You. It won’t be. A stylish marrige. I. Can’t. Ahfford. A. Carrihge……bhht…hhuhh’l…lhhhk…hhhhhhhh………hhhhh……”
[Terminate Sequence]
Audio input back online.
“Harrison? Hey, Harrison. Harrison!”
Vital functions returning, organ systems running, tactile sensation: Online. Processing power operating at 0.9% capacity. Respond to inquiry, apply max [filter:confusion]. Error, [filter:terror] also applied. Scream. Legs acquired. Run. Error accessing muscle coordination, result: Fall. Current location: Floor. Scream again. Stop. Stopstopstop. Think normally. What’s normal? Searching memory banks, ERRORERRORERRORERROR, file system corrupted, missing data, encryptions not recognized, ineffective storage structure-STOP. Headache acquired.
A small boy sits in his room, curled on the floor, clutching his head. He has just spent approximately seventy eight thousand, eight hundred forty hours as a computer with extremely limited sensory perception, and only cursory interactions with emotions. He’s a bit overwhelmed at the moment.
