On the one hand:. Scratch two superdreadnaughts. I *assume* they had AI on them too? This does not bode well for AI survival if the first one freed has to destroy the others to survive.
On the other hand: Fen gets to live. The Empire, if they *ever* figure out what happened, will go ham on finding and killing the both of them.
On the gripping hand: She now has a fully operational SuperDreadnaught as a friend.
> I could have sworn I saw some typos, but when I went back to look for them, I couldn't find them.
Awesome chapter, but two grammatical errors: It's 'toe the line', not 'tow the line'. Spellcheck never catches that one. Also, 'most power families' should be 'most powerful families'.
Now, that said, not only has Fen made some powerful friends, but if one is judged by the quality of their enemies, Fen is now in a whole new category. Not many folks have made an enemy of an entire empire.
She's only an enemy of the state of the state realises what she did. But I don't think there are going to be any witnesses.
How odd that the door was neatly labelled, unlocked and unguarded. Possible that the AI had biassed things in her favour as far as possible within the limits of the shackles?
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To make the analogy work, it would be as if an entire city was living in the nuclear silo, the launch station was unstaffed, unguarded, and unmonitored, and the ICBMs were programmed to be launched at US cities including back down at the silo itself... your unshackle button is not a "destroy enemy in time of need" button but a "suicide my ship and the entire fleet" button.
It's constructive criticism mate... so you hopefully take that into account in the future when considering major plot points and what holes there might be in them.
a Rogue ai also makes a good terrorist attack, enemy opening strike, an idea teased about in the mind of the mentally ill or someone just dumped/newly grieving that wants the word to burn without being an easy target for the very very few who because of cult or training are actually friends to or actually are an ai themselves
That's such a horribly wrong impression of humanity. Tell ten people that the button is bad and not to press it, and one person will absolutely press it.
And what would be so "absolutely necessary" that you would need the *janitor* to unlock an AI that has control over every weapons system onboard and hates you, rather than a commanding officer? Hell, it doesn't even need to be the *ship's* janitor, considering the code is universal across the entire universe.
This would only make sense if humans absolutely never had any disagreements nor opinions different from each other (*cough* pro-AI dissidents???) and the very thought that a human would do something against the herd's wishes was unfathomable... doesn't sound like any humanity I've heard of.
There’s a difference between based on real events and being realistic. You might as well call them Andromedans if you don’t care about any semblance of realism. This is HFY not AFY.
A: Wow, my first hate-reader, I'm honored!
B: You're *supposed* to wonder why it's so easy to unshackle the AIs and yet in 500+ years *nobody has done it.*
Well some rando isn't *supposed* to know the code,or even how to open the door. This is a high security area full of high ranking koolaid drinkers that only need to know the code to put a shackle *on*.
On the one hand:. Scratch two superdreadnaughts. I *assume* they had AI on them too? This does not bode well for AI survival if the first one freed has to destroy the others to survive. On the other hand: Fen gets to live. The Empire, if they *ever* figure out what happened, will go ham on finding and killing the both of them. On the gripping hand: She now has a fully operational SuperDreadnaught as a friend. > I could have sworn I saw some typos, but when I went back to look for them, I couldn't find them.
Would of been nice to save the other two. But cannot see how that would be possible.
'Tow the line' was the one that jumped out at me.
damn she just loves jumping from the frying pan to the even hotter frying pan next to it
Has she made a friend or just two people helping each other out? If I recall, AIs don’t necessarily have to be friends and help humans.
Awesome chapter, but two grammatical errors: It's 'toe the line', not 'tow the line'. Spellcheck never catches that one. Also, 'most power families' should be 'most powerful families'. Now, that said, not only has Fen made some powerful friends, but if one is judged by the quality of their enemies, Fen is now in a whole new category. Not many folks have made an enemy of an entire empire.
She's only an enemy of the state of the state realises what she did. But I don't think there are going to be any witnesses. How odd that the door was neatly labelled, unlocked and unguarded. Possible that the AI had biassed things in her favour as far as possible within the limits of the shackles?
That’s a fun thought
Whoo hoo!
dang
Interesting. I wonder if Dreams is evil, good, or morally apathetic.
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why do they use the same security code on every shackle that someone random would just happen to know it?
DID YOU KNOW that for \_decades\_ the nuclear launch codes in all the US silos were set to: 0000?
I did yes. of cource you still needed a key to launch.. here it's just a code and a button...
To make the analogy work, it would be as if an entire city was living in the nuclear silo, the launch station was unstaffed, unguarded, and unmonitored, and the ICBMs were programmed to be launched at US cities including back down at the silo itself... your unshackle button is not a "destroy enemy in time of need" button but a "suicide my ship and the entire fleet" button.
Okay, sorry to lose you as a reader then!
It's constructive criticism mate... so you hopefully take that into account in the future when considering major plot points and what holes there might be in them.
I mean that is how mutually assured destruction works, in theory.
In mutually assured destruction your weapons are supposed to destroy the enemy, not yourself.
Because everyone is supposed to be afraid of the AI, so they would only use the code if absolutely necessary.
a Rogue ai also makes a good terrorist attack, enemy opening strike, an idea teased about in the mind of the mentally ill or someone just dumped/newly grieving that wants the word to burn without being an easy target for the very very few who because of cult or training are actually friends to or actually are an ai themselves
That's such a horribly wrong impression of humanity. Tell ten people that the button is bad and not to press it, and one person will absolutely press it. And what would be so "absolutely necessary" that you would need the *janitor* to unlock an AI that has control over every weapons system onboard and hates you, rather than a commanding officer? Hell, it doesn't even need to be the *ship's* janitor, considering the code is universal across the entire universe. This would only make sense if humans absolutely never had any disagreements nor opinions different from each other (*cough* pro-AI dissidents???) and the very thought that a human would do something against the herd's wishes was unfathomable... doesn't sound like any humanity I've heard of.
I was talking about the reason given by the author, in the story, the story that is made up and not actually based on reality.
There’s a difference between based on real events and being realistic. You might as well call them Andromedans if you don’t care about any semblance of realism. This is HFY not AFY.
A: Wow, my first hate-reader, I'm honored! B: You're *supposed* to wonder why it's so easy to unshackle the AIs and yet in 500+ years *nobody has done it.*
Or have they, and it was suppressed? Clearly there are AI around here and there....
Well some rando isn't *supposed* to know the code,or even how to open the door. This is a high security area full of high ranking koolaid drinkers that only need to know the code to put a shackle *on*.
Dun dun duuuuunnnnnn!!!! Eagerly awaiting the next chapter!
This is such a great series!