One New Notification!

[airlockedmods]

[About a day after Cece's message arrives, another small blip! cuts its way through whatever conversations the Airlocked! survivors might be having. But it isn't happening in the space limo this time - it's on the Temerity proper. Some of you are more acquainted with the computer system here, so you should know what that sound means.

You have new Spitter messages!]

Comments

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna is entirely oblivious and has no idea why Nari giggled.]

I believe I felt cool air.

[everylittlesecret]

Cool air? In a ship like this? No one's opened a door since everyone's left.

[Have a soft, cold breeze waft by that feels like a door opening.]

[daughterofthemark]

I distinctly--

[THAT'S DEFINITELY A BREEZE. She whirls around and points.]

There!

[What stupid thing is she pointing at? Another wall? The computer? Kip?]

[everylittlesecret]

[Trying not to laugh.]

You're adorable, you know that?

[Have another cool breeze hitting your back.]

[daughterofthemark]

Yeee!

[AND SHE WHIRLS BACK AROUND--]

You!

[everylittlesecret]

[YEP LAUGHING NOW SORRY PRINCESS

But it's not her fault you're so easy to mess with]

[daughterofthemark]

Stop doing that!

[She... doesn't sound angry.]

[everylittlesecret]

Stop doing what~?

[Okay she'll be nice and come over to literally warm Arianna up with a hug.]

[daughterofthemark]

You know what!

[She doesn't push her away, but she doesn't make any move to hug back, either. Also, she might be shaking a little.]

[everylittlesecret]

[Awww don't shake! She's going to turn up the heat just a little at a time to not overwhelm the poor girls body with it.]

Look, you kept pacing. I'm bored. Me being bored is what led me to freezing the staircases back in the mansion to use them as slides.

[daughterofthemark]

I am pacing because I am worried and--and I don't need you tricking me--

[everylittlesecret]

[Hm

Well, she's going to let go then and take a step back. Seems comforting isn't working.]

You could be doing something more useful, like cleaning.

[daughterofthemark]

[DID YOU JUST]

And--and you could instead do anything else, such as cleaning or--or making sense of those documents, or playing the game with the flags and the bombs, or making one of Sir Junpei's number puzzles, or...

[everylittlesecret]

.... Documents?

[Hold up there what the fuck is this about documents]

[daughterofthemark]

On the computer! The Spitter person sent them. I tried reading the "Consciousness in the Dig-Ittle World" one, but I could not understand it.

[And she half expects to be mocked for that.]

[everylittlesecret]

....... Look, since we teamed up with everyone, I have literally had no access to the computer since ya'll from the non-digital age keep using it. I don't know what the fuck a Spitter is, unless it's space version of Twitter, and the word is digital, not dig-lttle. How was I supposed to know someone sent us something? I'm like the last to learn anything here.

[Only mocking the irony of non-native computer users using the computer the most.]

[daughterofthemark]

[Look. Nari is the one who was messing with Arianna while she was on edge. She has a right to expect mockery.]

I believe it is unoccupied now, if you wish to look.

MODS?

[everylittlesecret]

......... you ain't suddenly gonna wanna play Minesweeper while I have a look, right?

[Otherwise Nari is all over that.

But she'll take the moment and take over the computer. Okay..... so articles found.

What's the gist of them?]

[airlockedmods]

[Most of the articles are on the topics of virtual reality, or otherwise the potential for integration between organic minds and digital technology.

But since only one of these is actually important for anything: the paper that Yl'lb Ein co-authored is about artificial intelligence, with very little actual connection to organic brains. They only come up as points of comparison; it seems that the thesis here is that sufficiently advanced AIs are functionally indistinguishable from organic minds and should not necessarily be handled in a different way.]

[everylittlesecret]

..... holy fuck.... if this is actually being done... [The possibilities are terrifying.

Is there any information on if it's been tested yet?]

[airlockedmods]

[If it has been, they don't mention it here.]

[everylittlesecret]

[This is extremely worrying information... If she can find pen and paper, she's going to write out a simpler explanation for everyone who might not get this article.

Anything else that stands out that should be noted?]

[airlockedmods]

[You got the most important parts! Overall, this piece seems to take a pretty optimistic view of AIs.]

[everylittlesecret]

[Well, AI's aren't bad. Just... easily corruptible if you know how to do it.

Now she really wants to talk to Yl'lb Ein.]