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Alhaitham ([personal profile] justscribing) wrote in [community profile] citylogs2024-02-03 04:10 pm

[OPEN MINGLE]

WHO: Everyone! It's a mingle!
WHAT: Discussing recent reveals about the simulation
WHERE: Pairidaeza Architectural Studio
WHEN: Feb 3rd morning to evening
WARNINGS: Potential existential crises, discussions of death, memory manipulation, basically everything to do with their actual situation in a simulated environment.




[The actual setup within the garage-turned-studio is away from all the actual workbenches.

On one folding table are copies of multiple documents available around the X: The main document is a summary of a resident from a prior iteration that's clearly been redacted via scanning copies with stuff blocked out. Additionally are copies of the most recent newsletter with the memo on the back and photos of the hotel journal printed in black and white.

Lined up on another folding table away from the one with the documents is an array of finger foods: hummus, chutneys, and yoghurt dips with a variety of sliced vegetables, cheeses, cold cuts, and fresh pita bread. cardamom cookies, panipuri, and both vegetable and chicken samosas take up the other side. Mint water and fresh juice are in pitchers to the center. It's actually a little crowded.

Chairs are set up in small grounds and around the document table. And finally, a whiteboard has been rolled in for people to make use of in group discussions.]




((This is a mingle, so everyone is encouraged to threadjack, make toplevels, etc prior plot mingles have been done. Alhaitham and Kaveh will be around and participating but not taking the lead beyond making sure people stay orderly in the studio and have enough papers.

If you character has discussed the simulation with either Kaveh or Alhaitham, you can also handwave they texted them directly about it.))
keepgodwaiting: (dirtbag occultist)

[personal profile] keepgodwaiting 2024-02-06 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh -- shit, yeah, I'd forgotten they talked about the gala, right? [ Her frown deepens. ] They've got some sort of compulsion shit, and that could be automatic, but you're right that there's been some responsiveness already.

Could be an AI, I suppose. I don't know enough about computers to know what they're capable of. But all this always seemed like it'd be hard to run with just humans, in real time.
wordchain: (10)

[personal profile] wordchain 2024-02-07 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ He nods in agreement — for the possibility that the compulsion technology doesn't need anyone there to activate it manually, as well as the challenges that teams of human researchers would face over time. ]

Yes. Given the range of technology already available to them, the creation of a suitable AI to handle any task is equally feasible. And as CE-48 and CE-49 were outliers among the other iterations, you may have a point.
keepgodwaiting: (there you are)

[personal profile] keepgodwaiting 2024-02-07 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
You know much about computers? I'm not going to lie, I know about enough to work my laptop and not much else.

[ There are technomancers out there; she is definitely not one of them. ]
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[personal profile] wordchain 2024-02-12 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
To pursue the hypothesis that an AI is in use further?

[ It's entirely possible, not unfamiliar in the least. He and his colleagues were never truly AIs themselves, but he knows a former AI for whom supervising all of this would be in line with her past role, countless iterations over and over until the perfect outcome was achieved. ]

I am familiar with these concepts.
keepgodwaiting: (there you are)

[personal profile] keepgodwaiting 2024-02-17 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, yeah. Are they smart enough to make up new things, or just repeat things, you know?