SPACE COAST: PRIVATE CONVO: SHOMA

[murdergate]

[ sometimes i am mean to children ]

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[murdergate]

[ the more shoma says, the more nodd is a tad--unsure. eyebrows furrowing. keep in mind, kid, this is a ye olde. ]

What if someone doesn't want him reading their blood temperature? Can they say 'Roboji no blood reading?'

[solesuccess]

It doesn't exactly work that way. [ sometimes your robot just does things. ] But it's more like...he doesn't always have to respond. You don't always respond when you see a stressed out person or anything, do you?

[murdergate]

..............

[ what a question ]

Yeaaaaah. I guess not. But I also don't go scanning their innards for emotion data.

[ nodd starting his anti-AI newsletter ]

[solesuccess]

It's sort of the same as like when a person blinks. It happens, but you don't always register it.

[ sometimes your robot is wandering around after you independently. sometimes it joins a really weird and catchy dance number. the wonders of technology. ]

[murdergate]

Can I opt-out?

[ he's starting to feel too knowable.

because he's so subtle and mysterious. so hard to know how nodd feels at any given time. ]

[solesuccess]

[ unfortunately yeah he really does just look at nodd and raises an eyebrow. ]

Do you think it'd make a difference?

[murdergate]

[ actually ponders that question as a wizard might their orb. ]

I guess not for me, personally, no.

[solesuccess]

At least you're self-aware that way. [ that's a compliment, somehow. ] If you're that worried, don't be. There's a reason I don't bring him to trials anymore.

[murdergate]

I'll be honest with you, kid. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to bring me to trials anymore.

[solesuccess]

[ the look on his face seems to say he agrees. ]

You and probably everyone else on this ship, too. None of us agreed to be doing this but here we are. Doing this repeatedly week after week. And we're still no closer to figuring out how to make it stop.

[murdergate]

We still have time. And we still have a lot of smart people on both sides of the living-dead veil. You included. We know so much more than when we started. We just keep digging.

[solesuccess]

So long as we can convince other people to keep working and not give up because we don't have all of the answers yet, we might actually get everything figured out. But everything's in pieces right now. That's the frustrating part for everybody.