[Stolen Journals Volume 2 03//Action]

[goldenpathredux]

[Well, Leto didn't escape the curse this time. Behind and above him is a floating, pixellated rectangle, with reams of rapidly scrolling italicised text. Within it are meditations on the culture of Luceti, the nature of time and space, and other heady topics. It scrolls by pretty rapidly, presenting itself in a way that would cause most ordinary

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[gravity_splode]

[Reading with interest.]

[goldenpathredux]

Hello Xigbar. [He remembers you from talking about artificial intelligence. Accordingly, the stream of words switches subject to the Butlerian Jihad and the nature of the human mind versus the artificial]

[gravity_splode]

Hey.

[A pause as he reads the tl;dr of the thoughts.]

And I guess it depends on what you wanna call an 'artificial mind'.

[goldenpathredux]

What unnerves me about them is that they are often linear in their thinking and definitely linear in their abilities. Genetics recombines human DNA in unpredictable ways, leading to new abilities and new ways of thinking. The artificial do not have this advantage.

[And in the background, his ancestors weigh in, recalling the Butlerian Jihad against the thinking machine tyrants.]

[gravity_splode]

Of course they are. 'Swhy you've got to program in something like morals.

[His own thoughts run briefly to the MCP, in charge of the computer of his former world until he notices the assorted new 'voices'.]

Ooh, hey, built-in peanut gallery!

[goldenpathredux]

I remember discussing the idea of a morality core with you once...

Aren't they interesting?

[gravity_splode]

You certainly wouldn't get bored!