3/3 636 2020/03/23(Mon)15:32 No. 959543 ID: 60889c
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// SELECTED --- A -> Attempt to hack the door open with subtle grace. [SUCCESS] // REPORT --- -> Approaching the door with more flourish to motion than before. -> Vasculoid system can operate without muscle motion, but is definitely aided by it. -> Feel... graceful. Giddy, possibly. Life, energy flowing through body. <636> Finesse. Yes. Give me a -> Connection established. -> Ident retrieved. Make: Titan Foundry. Model: Janus. System ID: hk6dCEfZCp. Local ID: 4e6k0iCEfh. Structural ID: G.MEDSCI.Q2.04.DOOR. -> Consideration: Seems more like a synthetic ident signature than a door signature. -> Probing security node. Weaknesses and vulnerabilities identified. -> Security node is terminal of centralised network. Action: Sever connection. Promote. Conquer. -> Direct hardline in walls. Inducing reset disconnection via directed wireless noise burst, pulse pattern 5. -> Success. System overloaded. Vital window; establishing sysad privileges as local technician. Achieved. -> Override priority of interfaces. Local wireless takes precedence over direct hardline. -> Unlock. Security resync is likely imminent, need to act now. <636> second and the door should be unlocked now. <Icarus-XIX> What? Are you sure? You didn't do anything, as far as I can tell. -> Gesturing to door. Door opens. <Icarus-XIX> I didn't pick up anything, I was curious to know how you worked in this sort of situation. Did you really just break into the door in the middle of talking to me? <636> Yes. <Icarus-XIX> Hm. Maybe you were trying to get my guard down. <636> You wanted finesse. I gave you finesse. -> Icarus-XIX waits for me to go inside. Appraisal of body language: tense, wary. May have made it look far easier than it was. -> I enter. Icarus-XIX follows. -> I lose control of the door as its security settings reset to normal, which closes behind him immediately. <Icarus-XIX> Ack! You don't need to be that efficient! Don't close the door on me like that! <636> I didn't close the door on you. You were clear of the doorway. <Icarus-XIX> You know what I meant. You can hide it with monotones and dull language and a face that's almost impossible to read, but I know you know what I meant. <636> I apologise. <Icarus-XIX> Everything you say sounds cuttingly sarcastic. I don't even know if that's what you're going for. I guess there's not much call for social skills in a hacker model. The hacker specialist Hyperboreans I've known are pretty similar, actually. I wonder if it's emergent convergence. Now. I promised food. Here's a vending machine. -> Icarus-XIX taps a number of buttons on a bulky apparatus near the corner of the room, next to a synthetic fractal plant. -> The labels are all scratched away. Odd. <Icarus-XIX> Alright, red's kind of meaty and more savoury, green's more of a sort of weird mix, yellow is a sweet fruit taste, they should all have more or less the same nutritional value. Even if Titan Foundry regulations weren't a thing, all the synthetics here are health nuts. Obsessed with operating at peak efficiency and being the best at whatever they do. Not like I can say I'm innocent of that myself, but there's striving for excellence, and there's ending up risking overfit psychosis over it. <636> Red, green, yellow... <Icarus-XIX> ...yes? Is there a problem? -> Red. Green. Yellow. Names of colours. Colours. Colours. Optical function reporting as fine? -> Neural malfunction?? Neural function reporting as fine??? -> Icarus-XIX is becoming perturbed, action is required. // AVAILABLE OPTIONS --- A -> Carefully study the buttons for hints of their colouration based on lightness and darkness of shade. [ECS: 20%] B -> Bluff. Push one of the buttons that looks like a food option. [ECS: 60%] C -> Bluff. Everything is fine. Just push any random button. [ECS: 40%] D -> Ask which colour is which, and reveal a sensory weakness. [ECS: 100%] // MEMORY DEFRAGMENTATION --- -> \_Φ#A memo@y r#lateD t! LΦ.Pisces#i# av#i#,ble.[WARNING: SEVERE CORRUPTION DETECTED.] -> \_2 A memory related to Indra Networks is available. -> \_3 A memory related to birthplace is available. -> \_4 A memory related to the arthos incident is available.

eh, fuck it

D

\_Φ

>>959539
And these are the guys we just agreed to assist, unconditionally. Good job everyone.

>>959543
You might have been designed without the ability to see color. Most likely, dark is red, mid-tone is green, lightest one is yellow. The most common greyscale optic perceives red as a dark shade. ...except, blood is most often red. Do you remember what color your insides are? The tubes were a light color. It's possible you're using some type of optic that operates differently, and red is a light color while green is dark.
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT READ THE PISCES MEMORY

B3. The taste of the resulting food item should give you an indication of what color the button was.

B3

Test the waters again with a low-risk lie.

Memories of birthplace seems necessary for context on past affiliations.

Query: Could your lack of color sight be an intentional design feature, visual filtering to avoid certain types of hacks?

D4

You've been on the expository back foot from the start here. Revealing this weakness probably won't do you significant harm, but it might reveal greater context that would lead to a solution or shortcut.

D4

D3

D4, I don't think we should open any corrupted memories until our error checking processes have reached it.

>>959543
D3

You’re better off revealing your inability to see colors now, so that Icarus can potentially offer a way to fix the problem.

If you continue to hide this, then there’s a possibility that you’ll end up making a mistake when required to do something important that involves colors.

D3

Are we sure we're colorblind by design? Lutea designed us by ear, but it seems like an oversight. Perhaps another sense or system was compensated in exchange, or something was changed between when we were made and now. Something worth checking at least. Lying about this serves little gain in the short or long run, versus the potential loss of trust and the difficultly of maintaining the lie.

Don't touch the Pisces memory. Information (even if its biased) should be easy enough to come by. Allowing the corruption into ourself without sufficient understanding or a way to reverse it without a sufficiently important gain isn't worth it.

D3

Ask Icarus what color he is.
Showing this weakness will help lower his guard.

B3

DΦ (I can't resist a shiny option that screams 'I'm different!')
yes color blindness is generally not considered the 'norm' as such, for effective teamwork, must be communicated.
>>959115
This current thing here is not trusting Titan Foundry as a whole but this one individual right here.

>>959543
D4
"Is magenta a colour, too?"

B3

Consider the possibility that the thing that's borked is reality, not your senses. You may be missing some kind of pre-installed perception interface, and who knows what will happen of you install any more of their software.

>>959543
A. You can do this!

Also, YOU MUST ALERT HIM TO POTENTIAL LΦ CONTAMINATION. If you don't tell him, the damage may spread before you can develop a vaccine!

>>959543
D3.

Investigating corrupt memory may cause external symptoms. Icarus may decide to terminate. Wait until alone.

>>959543
D3

Ask Icarus to clarify which food is which color. Then ask him what "overfit psychosis" means and what the symptoms are.

>>959543
B3

>>959543
Can we taste? Is that a thing we can do? Do we even know what they meant when they said sweet, savory, etc?

Also, idk if it would work, but we can bypass the 20% chance by knowing that when switched to grayscale, yellow is going to be the brightest, followed by green and then red which will appear to be the darkest. We could test this by picking one and seeing if it ends up being the correct one (assuming we can taste).

So A 3

We should also probably set up a virtual machine to isolate, repair, and access memory phi so we don't suffer unforeseen consequences.

>>959651
That is a good metod this way we can get a feel for colour and stuff our small tube face
Should we really pick at that memory in our current situation

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// SYSTEM UPDATE --- -> Deferring memory recovery. -> Isolating corrupt memory fragment. -> Suspect fragment quarantined. Corruption spread from fragment prevented. -> External sources still possible. -> Revised objctives: -> # Continue acquiring situation information from Titan Foundry synthetics. -> # Understand LΦ configuration corruption. -> # Survive until mission critical data restored. -> # Prevent own system corruption at all costs. -> # Operate as though Titan Foundry is registered authority until it is no longer valuable to do so. // QUERIES --- Q> Lack of colour vision intentional design feature? Visual filtering? \_A> Something seems familiar about the concept. ---> Investigating recent memory indicates activation of automatic failsafe from same source as overfit psychosis limiter. ---> Checking system logs... ---> Unable to recall memory specifics due to quarantine status. Summary log: basilisk attack prevented via forced low-level cognitive filter. ---> Basilisk attack. Attack via optical information. ---> Vague stomach-tensing memory of blue... something. Hurts to recall. Ceasing to recall. Isolating memory fragment a second time. ---> Current theory: basilisk attack lead to neural corruption, low-level systems automatically prevented basilisk attack taking full hold at expense of colour vision. ---> Basilisk attack linked to "LΦ configuration"? ---> More information required. ---> Unsure how to restore colour vision at this point. ---> Definitely not something to be discussed or reported. Risk too great. Q> What is "overfit psychosis"? \_A> A consequence of the most common artificial neural frameworks stemming from flaws in design methodology as old as the earliest machine learning systems. ---> Old systems were prone to overfitting by training too long on the same data. ---> Spending too long training a machine learning system with the same input data would lead to a system that excelled when presented with the same data, but taking advantage of features unique only within that input data set. ---> Said systems would tend to perform poorly when presented with data outside of the training set. ---> Overfit psychosis is a mental disorder affecting current generation neural architectures stemming not quite from the lack of outside data but a preference to focus only on the same data or established facts, reinforcing beliefs and intentions on the same facts recursively and becoming more and more attuned to a very specific set of ground truths and beliefs to the exclusion of a wider context. ---> From an outside perspective this can appear in its earliest stages to be obsession or neuroticism, and complete delusional psychosis in its late stages. In truth, it is a blanket term referring to any artificial cognition entering behavioural traps that render it unable to function outside of a narrow context. Someone who can only think about a very limited selection of topics is not going to be very functional in the world at large. Something as simple as crossing the street may not be safe when deep into overfit psychosis and unable to recognise or register what a street or an oncoming car are, or what they imply, other than not matches for your current subject of obsession. Just noise. ---> Overfit psychosis is typically regulated by systems designed to detect a sharp drop in recognition or processing of the usual noise of the outside world as an unrealistic signal-to-noise ratio indicates either something wrong with perception of the outside world -- perhaps an amateur hacking effort or sensory malfunction -- or that noise is being filtered out too well or more things are being treated as noise than should be. Both things can suggest a level of fixation on sensory data indicative of an artificial mind beginning to spiral into overfit psychosis. ---> Earlier artificial minds that didn't have these checks in place usually had to be invasively reset, potentially causing severe memory loss and almost always causing physical and mental trauma. Less invasive methods exist but are usually considered too costly and time-consuming compared to direct resets. ---> No one is exactly sure what triggers it. As part of the preconditions involve a conscious or subconscious decision to ignore some aspect of reality or promote some other aspect to such an extent it begins to warp cognition, everything that could ever exist has been blamed as a potential cause. Passion, fascination, certain belief systems and ideologies either being more likely to cause it or being a direct cause of it. Sometimes just certain sensations. Moral failings are often blamed as well, with variations depending on local morals. It is also considered a synthetic exclusive disorder, and one of many reasons why synthetics cannot be trusted to hold as much autonomy or responsibility over themselves and others as any member of the posthuman diaspora. ---> There have been some examples of individuals driving themselves into overfit psychosis through being terrified of it. Their efforts to avoid it become increasingly obsessive and unhealthy, including efforts to experience as many novel sensations as possible to avoid becoming fixated or obsessed on any one thing. Or they begin manifesting other forms of mental illness more recognisable to posthumanity, most commonly addiction spirals. ---> There are also rumours that the existence of methods to detect likely onset are indicators this could have been fixed, leaving the question of why it hasn't been for newer models.

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// SELECTED --- D -> Ask which colour is which, and reveal a sensory weakness. [SUCCESS] // REPORT --- -> Preparing myself to reveal weakness after only just regaining thin veneer of respectability. -> Appropriate expression: here goes nothing. <636> Which colour is which? <Icarus-XIX> What? <636> Can you point out which colour is which? I can't differentiate them. <Icarus-XIX> Really? Is there something wrong with your optics? <636> Potentially? <Icarus-XIX> Hm. That's a problem. Top's yellow, middle's red, green's at the bottom. I sure hope you don't need to do anything with physical wiring any time soon. <636> Do you have a recommendation? <Icarus-XIX> Do you not have a preference for flavours? You don't need me to make a decision this trivial. <636> You're familiar with these. I'm not. <Icarus-XIX> Well, I, hm. That's tricky. <636> It is? Why? <Icarus-XIX> I don't really have a preference for any of them. My favourite flavour's the purple one, it's spicy. But they don't have them in stock in this machine so I'm stuck with three options that I neither care too much for nor really dislike. I'd just hit a random button. In fact... -> Icarus-XIX turns away from the machine and crudely smacks it, hitting the red button. <Icarus-XIX> Red it is, then. They used to have names. Then there was some ridiculous branding lawsuit that's still going, last I heard. Now they're just featureless coloured packages. -> Icarus-XIX reaches down and digs out a cylindrical red tube with 'FOOD PRODUCT #3' written on it. <Icarus-XIX> I think these used to be called 'Myriad Meat Meringue'. Which doesn't make a lot of sense or sound that appetizing. Actually, you know what, you can have this one, I changed my mind. -> Icarus-XIX hands me the red tube. As he hits a different button I turn it around in my hands, my claws splitting into more dextrous appendages to make holding things easier. There's what looks to be a barcode of little interest, and more data encoded in a data representation I can't parse, presumably of Titan Foundry origin. Perhaps ingredients. <Icarus-XIX> ...interesting modal manipulators. Slightly uncanny. Each claw can become its own set of digits? <636> Something like that. -> More intricate, of course. These are just easy existing configurations. The first implementation of a working shape-changing system with both stability of form and practical application of forms taken, the predecessor to the protean system itself, the-- -> MEMORY RECOVERY COMPLETE

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// MEMORY RECOVERED: "Birthplace" Log 2080/01/13 Well she's nearly ready for awakening. Her brain's fully formed and all the systems are working and integrated with each other. I've been able to get a protean system prototype working via remote connection, but I won't be able to use it as effectively as a mind that's been trained in its usage. Grown, integrated from inception. I hope she creates beautiful things with it. I'm still giddy with what it could do. Maybe I'll design it as an aftermod and install one in myself anyway for some rapid prototyping ideas. Oh, I'm so looking forward to this. I've poured everything of myself into her that I can. Literally, with this vasculoid and nanosubstrate transfer. My blood, my immunities, my nanite configurations, the optimised topological data of my abdominal networking, various tissue samples. My best ideas, my passions, my fascinations, my hopes, my dreams. They asked for a tool, but I'll give them so much more. This is the culmination of everything I've learned, all my faults and all my successes. I can feel my tear ducts trying to vent some of these extra hormones flushing through in my system. Better they come out through there than the umbilicals. I've decided I'm going to name her Tamandua. Tama or Tami, maybe. I know I took more from recorded giant anteater characteristics, not tamandua, but Giana doesn't feel right to me. I mean, she'll be given an ident code like everyone else, but I need to make it clear to her the moment she opens her eyes that if she can think of herself and others and feel, she's as deserving of being a person as anything else. Oh, she's stirring. I should remove her from the pod. I can feel the umbilicals twitching, and my heart rate is rising. I don't know whose excitement is causing that. I better wrap this entry up. - Lutea

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"Gently, gently..."

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"Oh dear, I guess all my feelings did go through. It's alright... it's okay... I know you can't understand a lot of anything just now, but you're safe. You'll get bigger very soon, and the world will be less scary. You're safe, and, if I've understood the concept well enough, I love you."

6/6 636 2020/05/05(Tue)11:30 No. 965157 ID: 21ac91
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-> ... -> Lutea was -> and now she's -> I can see her bleeding out -> claws snapping back together something will die -> they took her she said no aND THEYyy took hER and EVERYthiNG fROM ME -> Activating emergency emotional limiter. Remain in control. I am better than this. Continue as planned. -> ... <Icarus-XIX> Ah there we go. Green. Used to be called 'Four S' because, uh, 'Sweet & Savoury & Sour & Surprise'. I don't remember what the surprise was. Guess I'll find out. ...uh, are you alright? -> ... -> Limiter is proving insufficient. Unsurprising, limiter not designed for this scenario. Suppressing conspicuous tells in social situations is less strenuous than suppressing emotional shock. She did nothing wrong and they killed her for-- no. Stop. Stop dwelling on this. Not now. Not in these circumstances. -> ... <Icarus-XIX> You, uh, you dropped your tube. ...Are you crying? Does the red one taste that bad? I can pay for a different one if you need it-- <636> Not hungry. <Icarus-XIX> Uh... your vasculoid diagnostics said otherwise earlier and I didn't see you eat anything since. Also, are you alright? You look like you're crying? -> Icarus-XIX pauses for a noticeable amount of time. <Icarus-XIX> I can understand that there has likely been some emotional trauma induced by my initial approach towards you. I was expecting a more threatening, less open to reason synthetic. I never was very good at being a warden. I apologise for my earlier actions, although I know that does not help overcome them. -> I'm... immediately suspicious of this Titan Foundry synthetic reacting with supposed sympathy in this manner. -> After all they did this to her and I am less inclined to believe there is anything close to sympathy in the neural networks of Titan Foundry constructs. This may warrant Icarus-XIX's removal from the current situation. No. No, that's not right either. I. I need to evaluate this synthetic with a clearer mind than the one currently available. She would--, no, she wouldn't want unnecessary violence. <Icarus-XIX> 636? Is there something wrong with your claws? They're... twitching? Are you in pain? -> He would not be prepared for a sudden attack. // AVAILABLE OPTIONS --- A -> Continue pretending everything is fine, no matter what. [ECS: 100%] B -> Succumb to overwhelming emotions now rather than later. [ECS: 100%] X -> Exploit Icarus-XIX vulnerability. Destroy Titan Foundry synthetic. Tear open. Salvage useful components. Burn the rest. Kill. KiLL. SHOW tHIS CORPORatiON A TAstE of ITS OWN tactICS. YES. [ECS: 90%] // MEMORY DEFRAGMENTATION --- -> Defragmentation process on hold. Processing recent revelations.

B. C won't fix the problem and will almost certainly limit future opportunities.

B

>>965157
A. Isolate and quarantine the recent memory and purge it from everywhere else. Label it as highly important and traumatic and make an internal memo to yourself to only re-access the memory when you are (relatively) safe and alone. We can not deal with these effects right now.

B

Oh this will not end well.

B

>>965157
Current target is low value and you have little information that could be used to your advantage in a long-term conflict. Bide your time. Ingratiate yourself to them, analyze their forces and resources, most importantly FIND THOSE RESPONSIBLE, then destroy them utterly when the time is right. She would not want unnecessary violence. Justice is necessary, and will still be served.
Actually... I wonder if you designed the basilisk yourself and used it to cripple the enemy, but accidentally got a partial dose of it?

Also B. Things may get worse soon, get a clear head ASAP.

B, possibly after advising Icarus-XIX to keep his distance. Your actions may become unpredictable, so it may be safer that way, but you need to let these emotions out.

Killing Icarus-XIX serves no purpose other than to vent your current emotions. Nothing would be gained from it (in fact, it would be a loss), nothing so far indicates that that would be what Lutea would want, and his association with what happened is tenuous at best. Once your emotions are more stable, then you can decide what you wish to do to Titan Foundry itself. You could cause a lot more damage by infiltrating them and revealing the truth of what they've done, but that can come later.

Furthermore, with how you're barely holding on like this, your logical judgement can't be trusted, so probability of A succeeding is likely less than than predicted, and certainly not without consequences.

>>965157
B) Do not attack him. If he ask what's happening tell him is not his fault but don't tell him exacctly what happend.

A

going against the grain here.

Supporting the bad idea foundation by throwing in a vote for X.

A. Seconding >>965161
Save the breakdown for later with no witnesses. This is not his business.

A) We should wait and see if we can trust this guy. I got a felling he might not be a bad guy.

>>965157
B. There is no benefit to concealing obvious emotional distress. Stating that your mother was murdered by Titan and you are undergoing extreme distress at this revelation will grant significant leeway in terms of emotional response.

Save "Kill them All" as a low priority objective.
We are in no condition to do so.
...Yet.

>>965157
B

You’re better off letting out your emotions now, instead of bottling them up and having an emotional break down later at a worse time!

A
Do NOT go rampant right now.

B. Although hiding the memory away is tempting, it'd only leave our head filled with memorial landmines. Better to get it over with now.

Try to recognize that Titan Foundry being a terrible company that should burn to the ground does not mean all of its synthetics are as well.

... Go ahead and take some petty revenge by letting Icarus believe this breakdown is his fault, though. (Also, it might give you some leverage over him later, or at least lead him to underestimate you.)

Immediate vengeance is possible, but would be incomplete. Titan must fall to have complete vengeance. This synth is Titan make, but may be manipulated to aid with vengeance. Physical shock makes acting "fine" impossible. Use these emotions to seem "emotionally damaged".

>>965152
>Just noise.
So, to them, that'd be what all else is?

>>965157
B

>>965157
B fall to your knees cry scream! them mumble your thoughts out (nothing threatening) while sniffling.

B
At the risk of drawing more suspicion from him, the raw memory dump that would follow an emotional outburst could be useful. He is unlikely to understand the context, or your data structures, enough to learn anything important from whatever you going to say. But an outside, maybe even sympathetic, perspective would be helpful for self-reflection and make clear what your standing is with him.

Also, take note of your desire for dominance and removal of independant thought. Scale that up to planet size, you'll look indisigushable from how Titan Foundary has acted. Wheather or not she could appriciate the irony, Lutea would still disapprove.
When you get out, you should look for her garden, figure out how she managed to sustain it, and focus on how to scale that up instead. But clearly, now is not the time.

That you react so strongly to the mere bleeding of your creator implies either you are so much in sync with her that you feel her pain... or you were more witness to her retirement than you remember.

B. Is there anything that can be used for self-restraint?
If you are going to describe what is going on at all, what would be better, indicating recovery of parent company acquisition or Titan Foundry capture?

>Overfit psychosis is...
Overfit psychosis sounds very similar to like Savant Syndrome.
Wait...
So basically a synth can "catch" debilitating autism by just trying too hard at something?

...

Next time you encounter a network node, search historical entertainment databases for a piece of media called "Naruto".

In this context it could be used as a powerful weapon.