Comments on: Chapter 7, Page 55

By: CFT

CFT — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 02:55:06 +0000

I think the Ballerina and Tsade/Anubis might both be imprints taken from the original Al, they are basically forks in his psyche, with one being his unemotional logical stoical self which appears more masculine (and similar to how Al presents himself), and the other his hidden more emotional intuitive and graceful side which appears more feminine…I do wonder what Sulla would think of the Ballerina… a sister perhaps?

By: tehto

tehto — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 17:49:29 +0000

In order to manufacture Al, they’d have to be able to make good voices. Whoever made Al probably made Ballerina first

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:14:32 +0000

Sooooo, do either of you live in Minnesota?

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:19:54 +0000

It’s really interesting that the friendly, Brendan-raised Sulla is too talkative and inquisitive for Tsade, but Al’s brusqueness suits Tsade fine.

I’d been assuming that Ballerina was either a copy of Tsade or an early experiment of theirs, but she(?) is about ten million times as sensitive, which suggests otherwise. Fascinating.

By: Dotcom

Dotcom — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:27:12 +0000

Unless a big twist happens, I expect Annubis is Tsade. That leaves me to wonder who the Ballerina is? Her text looked very human/organic (the only non-synth who has that is Sulla) so it makes me think she actually *is* possibly a human or cyborg versus another being who has a computer/synth brain.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:37:12 +0000

or do they bring the snow?

By: GeekMan

GeekMan — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:08:29 +0000

Tsade (I’m just assuming that’s them at this point) was deeply insensitive to Al in the woods. Given everything we know now, those comments were especially hurtful, whether Tsade intended it or not.

This is the thing about Tsade. Bully for them on being the first AI to emancipate themselves, but all the interactions characters have with Tsade gives me the impression of someone who is deeply insensitive. They’re a machine – through and through – and they embrace that identity.

Everyone else, humans and AI (and including Tsade’s assistant, clearly), are fragile people with emotions and boundaries that require respect.

I hope the next few pages give us some idea of what exactly Tsade wants, and what they’ve been up to. So far, Tsade has mostly been the Deus Ex Machina (pun intended, and maybe that’s why Blue made them look like Anubis) that brings back Al.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:25:58 +0000

Hm…Does the anubis analog only visit with Al when it’s snowing?

By: DailyBrad

DailyBrad — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 04:07:42 +0000

Hope Anubis here employs something resembling tact this time, because hoo boy did they mess things up last time.

By: LiterallyJustSomeGuy

LiterallyJustSomeGuy — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:12:52 +0000

Oh, the one who doesn’t concern themself with people’s feelings came alone. This can only end well.

Was Al expecting them?