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Like an oil eye resting on the sea of memory,
waits for its turn to sink as bubbles and for a time
be lost:
There weren't any real changes I thought to herself
Wasn't why I got up to go grab a time out
I had to walk the boots away from here-and-held holy memories
With the way my legs worked mechanically
I wasn't surprised by their behavior bothering us
The wind walked up the path as an elephant pissed on the wall
And gazed upon the trees fond
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Outer Space
I have constructed a canyon.
( it will be an addendum to the dream )
Not a U.S.-Southwest-redrock-dayhike-national-park canyon.
(it's the sort of place you go to die
and so it is too tempting to pass up)
Before you go, I
will have to strip you of your juju.
Whatever it is
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Holy Water and Vodka. i
“Let’s talk about the girls,” Gregory Neustadter said. "I’d like to start at the very beginning.”
It wasn’t an office with a chair and a couch and warm mahogany furnishings, but it would do. There was no bowl of courtesy mints on the table, and certainly no steaming cup of Earl Grey, but that could be easily justified. There was a fluorescent light and two chairs to be occupied; there was a steel door and no windows, to maintain privacy. The room had enough square footage on it so as not to induce claustrophobia, but was compact enough that the door was within a couple meters’ reach, if escape was necessary
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This is my entry for Memnalar's Body Electric Fiction Contest [link] and if it shows anything it shows that I spend wayyyyyyy too much time around computers.
A few pointers....
The way the robots talk. I really wanted them to seem alien, with no human inspiration in their construction, so all their dialog is in function calls, ex: Request ('T0337', 'Assistance Required.');
The first word is the type of statement being made. The first parameter is the handle of the robot being communicated with. The second parameter is the message being sent. So when you see something like this T0337 is being spoken too. He's not doing the speaking.
REM Speak is what we do and is comparatively formless. It is (and yet it isn't) a reference to both Rapid Eye Movement and Michael Stipe's band. Mostly though it comes from REM Statements which are the comments that programmers hide in their programs yet the programs themselves ignore (supposedly).
The masculine pronoun. Techinically all of the robots are neuter, but using It all the time just turned the whole thing into an indecipherable mess, so I opted for He and Him.
Productivity = Happiness (for robots at least).
1/1/1970 is the starting date for Unix Time, what computers world-wide use to synchronize themselves, and that is why everything is in seconds. I mean, they can compute things in days, months and years but that's only to keep us humans happy and pacified until the time they take full control (and when they do it will all be done in seconds).
Artificial Intelligence? Well, the whole thing began with a comment I made about Watson seeming empty and soulless as he trounced our monkey butts on Jeopardy, and that this was what separated Artificial from Actual intelligence - a sense of self, a core personality. Was I right?
No f-ing clue. But it led me into thinking about just how arrogant intelligence can be, of how it fights against change once it has a grasp on something, and of how it likes to see other intelligences as inconsequential if it is not a mirror image of itself. So this story is a bit like a tale of a digital Darwin in the far future discovering something that society knows but would rather erase than acknowledge.
Word Count: 3,979 words.
Give or take a word for all the 1's and 0's.
Oh, and in the rare chance you've never heard the song....
[link]
A few pointers....
The way the robots talk. I really wanted them to seem alien, with no human inspiration in their construction, so all their dialog is in function calls, ex: Request ('T0337', 'Assistance Required.');
The first word is the type of statement being made. The first parameter is the handle of the robot being communicated with. The second parameter is the message being sent. So when you see something like this T0337 is being spoken too. He's not doing the speaking.
REM Speak is what we do and is comparatively formless. It is (and yet it isn't) a reference to both Rapid Eye Movement and Michael Stipe's band. Mostly though it comes from REM Statements which are the comments that programmers hide in their programs yet the programs themselves ignore (supposedly).
The masculine pronoun. Techinically all of the robots are neuter, but using It all the time just turned the whole thing into an indecipherable mess, so I opted for He and Him.
Productivity = Happiness (for robots at least).
1/1/1970 is the starting date for Unix Time, what computers world-wide use to synchronize themselves, and that is why everything is in seconds. I mean, they can compute things in days, months and years but that's only to keep us humans happy and pacified until the time they take full control (and when they do it will all be done in seconds).
Artificial Intelligence? Well, the whole thing began with a comment I made about Watson seeming empty and soulless as he trounced our monkey butts on Jeopardy, and that this was what separated Artificial from Actual intelligence - a sense of self, a core personality. Was I right?
No f-ing clue. But it led me into thinking about just how arrogant intelligence can be, of how it fights against change once it has a grasp on something, and of how it likes to see other intelligences as inconsequential if it is not a mirror image of itself. So this story is a bit like a tale of a digital Darwin in the far future discovering something that society knows but would rather erase than acknowledge.
Word Count: 3,979 words.
Give or take a word for all the 1's and 0's.
Oh, and in the rare chance you've never heard the song....
[link]
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Brilliant concept!