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Wow! Thanks for all the comments! I love comments! It seems like you're following along pretty well. lol. Yeah, they are absolutely incredibly irresponsible with their future tech. But hey, We'll see how it goes! You've picked up on a few of the important bits. They really are all playing with fire, in way more ways than one. But that's part of why I'm including the worldbuilding bits. Their culture is in an odd place where playing with fire might feel second nature/imperitive to right now. Project AI 005 was intended to militarize the A.I.. that Dolphin originally developed, and that's sort of building a bomb, inserting a fuse, and putting the fire on it.In a sense, this is a major step down in development and a sigh to reconstitute after that failure. At least, thats what they initially thought. Turns out Chip might have built Pandoras box while Dolphin already had the key...

Really Unit 001 early kill attempts where more of a HAL problem then a SKYNET problem. In both cases, program errors made be her end users caused her to become the E.I. version of insane. Really as she said herself, in some ways her mind is weaker then a organic one, and in someways very much stronger.

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I am enjoying this story immensly, so I'm happy to comment!

Have you by chance read Superintellegence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies? Such a good book if you want to learn more about AI's.

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Plus, since Dolphin is as trustworthy as a trampoline made from barbed wire, I'm not sure I believe he's telling the truth here.

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I have not, but now I will. I like things like that...

God dammit Dolphin. You are just a walking stereotype, aren't you?

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Trotting. He's a trotting stereotype. Of the evil abusive mad scientist type. Or something along those lines. I'm good with stereotypes. Everybody loves stereotypes. But do they? Do you? I've had people send me angry notes because I *didn't* have cookie cutter bad guys. I've gotten internet yelled at for having gray bad guys that weren't simply just "evil." Dolphin is actually a direct result of one of these.... conversations. I don't mind. He fits in this story just fine. It's interesting what people get upset about. Especially considering the content I write, and what I expect people to get upset about. lol. So thanks for the input! It's well received. I'm especially happy somebody mentioned it, regardless of if you like it or not, you *noticed* it. So I'm doing something right!

He has very good reasons for doing some of the things he does.Other things are straight up villainous with no excuse. It's great! I'm honestly surprised how much people are focusing on Dolphin here. Check the comments. like half of them are about Dolphin in some way. To me, he's honestly the third most interesting character out of a very short cast of primary characters. Real, actual spoiler: And almost no one has mentioned character one. It's beautiful. Tears in my eye...

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So, their entire society is maybe three bad decisions in a row away from going full blown Bioshock, interesting...

Turns out Chip might have built Pandoras box while Dolphin already had the key...

Well, if Dolphin had the key, then he's already turned it, and is about ten seconds away from tearing the lid right off its damn hinges...

Seriously, using an unpredictable barely controlled program agent like Empty, to actively muck with the workings of an emergent machine intelligence like 001, is a move so utterly bone headed stupid that it would drive any real world AI researcher to drink...

Dolphin's argument in this chapter only works with 001 because he flat out lied to her just now, and has hypocritally accused her of trying to manipulate him. His argument faceplants into a swimming pool full of hydrochloric acid, the moment you factor in that it was never 001 who bypassed her ruleset, it was his own creation Empty, who runs on a completely different ruleset and programming base; and who unsurprisingly is beggining to interact in unforseen ways with 001's machine learning subroutines.

The basis of Dolphin's paranoia is grounded in the fact that an improperly programmed AGI is supremely dangerous, but right now the problem is one that he created, by attempting to game the system, misapropriating government resources, and betraying Princess Twilight's trust in him. If Dolphin was trying to prove the danger 001 might pose beyond a theoretical basis, all he has succeeded in doing so far, is proving why maliciously tampering with a developing machine intelligence is an incredibly stupid idea.

So far 001 has not been allowed to succeed or fail on her own merits, instead, Dolphin mind raped her, and has now lied right to her face about it, to justify his conclusions. His meddling has contaminated the results of the entire research project up to this point, and invalidated virtually all of the testing data. If the council discovers what he's done, they would be well advised to have him imprisoned for a very long time, and barred from being directly involved in AI research in any capacity, ever again.