Week 5

[airlockedmods]

[As with the weeks before, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to something resembling normalcy with shocking efficiency. The second floor rest area and Adventure Zone Death Orb Room are spotless again, the demon glitter has been vacuumed, the deflated orbs have been replaced. It's like none of it ever happened, like three more friends aren't dead and stored away in the guest house morgue.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 4, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

Then I'll kick them in the dick with my very real foot. We bleed, we die, we're real. Even if they can repair the damage later.

[desperateprayer]

Repair--

[ Wait. ]

...You think they can revive us!?

[misanthropicprinciple]

I don't--ummmmm.

[He didn't really want to get into this so early, but! We can't always get what we want.]

I'm not... entirely sure that's a leap I want to make on so little information, but I do know that we are all carrying nanotechnology that is programmed to repair our wounds after our deaths.

[desperateprayer]

...Why... Would they do that...?

[ That makes no sense. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

You know, I asked the same thing?

[It really doesn't.]

[desperateprayer]

...No. If they really can insert our consciousness into our bodies... L-Like putting a soul into a doll... ...They'd need them repaired if they wanted to use them again in the future. Couldn't they just... Erase our memories of this and have us do it over again?

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Takumi... had the same thought.

[desperateprayer]

...

[ They could... Do it again. Arrange things so people die in a different order. She could actually kill someone for Mikaela that time. Roland might end up killed instead. Maybe no one would be friends. It... It's a thought that has her going whiter than normal. ]

[misanthropicprinciple]

He didn't want me to tell everyone. But I... I've been through this before. And I know that--that even if that is the case, we won't get anywhere if we don't share everything we know and think.

I...

I want to get all of us out of here. But I can't do it by myself, so... I have to rely on all of us to make it happen.

[desperateprayer]

...Yeah.

[ Sorry, she needs to distract herself. She'll take a deep breath. ]

...Thank you. For being honest.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...You can thank me if it ends up helping.

[desperateprayer]

...I'm sure it will, in some way, Junpei.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...It's one that's crossed my mind before. There's the thought that--well, if we can 3D print bodies, PAL could make himself one, right? And I was dumb and flippant and thought if we see a new person, we'll know. But I also thought, what if he just prints up a template of one of us and puts himself in? Easier to repair, though. More cost effective to fix something you have than put all the raw materials into making a new one.

But, uh, way more importantly, jesus fucking fucked up backpedaling christ, if our consciousnesses are just uploaded in a computer, along with our abilities and shit that can be swapped around at will, they could do this as often as they wanted.

It'd make us all AI, in a way.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I mean, that's not exactly where I was going with it, but I don't know a lot about AI. I'm not thinking of it as being uploaded so much as... another path getting artificially grafted onto what was already naturally possible for each of us.

Could AI do something like this?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Your schtick is your whole self is uploaded to a telepathic cloud that hangs around your body. My schtick is AI. We do what explanations work for us.

[your world's fuckin weird brah]

Look, if, in theory, you could upload an entire actual and whole person into a computer, where you can read and rewrite and play with all their data, a computer powerful enough to store that kind of data, and the knowledge and know-how to read all that data? Which, at least four thousand years in the future, who the fuck knows if they do? I don't see why not.

Make some computer people play dollhouse and make them feel like they're real people. Sure. Swap out the codes for more intricate but still innate stuff. Done. Could be possible.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah. You're right. That theory's as sound as mine--which, I mean, okay, that may be damning with faint praise, but it works for me. It's just that Takumi seemed awfully sure we weren't in a simulation.

There's really no way to tell unless we can get outside it one way or another.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Depends on your definition of simulation. We'd still be people, even if digital people, uploaded into fully functioning physical and real bodies, even if they're not our originals.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh, I see what you're saying. So there's a computer for each person. Yeah, that's more or less the same idea as what I'm thinking, just with computers replacing the step of the morphogenetic field in between. Gotcha. That makes sense, too.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[A TELEPATHIC CONNECTION BETWEEN CLOUDS THAT HOVER AROUND PEOPLE IS NOT THE SAME THING AS UPLOADING ACTUAL DATA INTO AN ACTUAL COMPUTER WITH ACTUAL 0S AND 1S JUNPEI]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[POTATO, POTAHTO! Espers and quantum computers are actually literally the same exact thing espers don't need dongles to fuck.]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[WHAT THE FUCK IS ZTD]

[shikosuki]

--Wait, what?!

That's... that's a thing? How do you know that?

[misanthropicprinciple]

[His eyes flick over to Kip.]

It's what I've heard.

[theoverseen]

[You caught him mid-slurp, and his eyes widen.]