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To Joho
| >>133093
We can meet in the matrix if you wish. Meeting in person is not quite applicable in most cases for me. Please redirect to the following link once you have logged in to your nearest matrix port.
jjj.52996.jouhou.40312
-Joho
| >>133098
Also, knowledge of who you are would help me ensure that you are not booted upon connection to my server.
-Joho
| Finally, to whomever you are, it will be up to you to meet me. I have no motivation to go out of my way to meet someone out of my own accord. Especially when it is more than likely I will not be getting much data out of it. -Joho
| You will have motivation soon enough. Assuming you want your toys to actually be effective.
| As for who I am, I will post here again at a specific IP address with the following tag. -####
| This IP will be valid for just tonight when I post with it.
| > DM to Joho, from #### : I'm about to post, but I wanted to warn you advance. Don't send your drones to the GPS coordinates my IP originates from. I realize that you probably have them designed to be invisible to other cameras, but they'll be shot out of the air regardless until I give you clearance.
| >>133370
What a waste of drones that would be. I will keep my prying eyes to myself for the time being. -Joho
| A rational decision. The IP is the following. Let me know when I have clearance to enter. -####
| You are cleared. -Joho
(OOC: is the matrix like VR? I can make you a real nice setting if so)
| ( It basically is. Go for it! )
| >You log in
>As your surroundings settle, you face up to see the sky. It is dark, devoid of light, of stars, clouds, anything. Like a turned off monitor, there is nothing.
>You turn to face the ground. It is like a sea of glass, stretching as far as the eye can see. There are no hills, no difference in features, it is simply one wide sheet, barely reflecting your image where you stand.
>All is dark, yet everything is somehow illuminated.
| >You look forward
>In front of you looms a glass wall, stretching from east to west, as far as the eye can see. It looms over you, towering a hundred feet high. The wall is vaguely see through, and dimly gives off a red light. You walk closer, tentatively, and see that the red glow is coming from millions upon billions of tiny red lights within the wall, shooting vertically and horizontally in such quick eratic movements that it is a struggle just to focus on one point
| >It is as if you are looking at a giant, infinitely long transparent circuit board, with the ability to see all electrical movements as they happen within it.
"P̬̪͓̪̙͎͍̕ḽ̫̮̲͔͜ea̸̺̬̝s̪̻͠e̡̘̫ ̦̠H̬̙͜o̷̲͓̫̝̫̟͚l͎͢d̗͙͞ͅ."
>The wall flashes as a voice booms from it, a voice so digitally corrupted and grotesque it is difficult to understand. The section of the wall in front of where you stand begins to glow bright red as more and more points of light begin to converge to a single area.
| >You try to cover your eyes, but just as quickly as it got bright, it becomes dim again. Standing in front of you is a humanoid figure, a digital manequin. It has no face, no eyes, nose, mouth or ears. It is transparent and dimly glows red, filled with the same millions of sprinting red lights as the wall from which it was produced.
| "Hello. I am Joho. By the tentativety that you initially displayed upon approaching me, I concluded that a form like this would be more suitable for conversation and data collection with you. Whoever you are."
>The voice eminates from the figure, now at a standard volume level but still slightly distorted
| > The body that entered was not a body but a black square that 'floated' in a diamond position. It's 'gaze' came in from multiple directions, but it seemed red markings tumbled down and around each side...notably in some sort of neo-nihon unicode kind of output.
"...You know I suspected that you might be an AI."
>A distorted voice spoke. The 'gaze' that could only be pinpointed by making note of some kind of odd internal 'adjustment' data with-in the cube implied a visual scan.
| ( ...PFFFFFBBT. Do I have to recton? Because I love how ironic this is. )
| "Your suspicions were correct. I am in fact an A.I., despite what others on the board have suggested. It would seem that making mistakes is a human quality, and thus my initial blunder with data on the DynamoFuckers seems to have given me a human reputation."
>Joho makes no movements, not seeing any reason to
"Please understand that I currently see no motivation to give data beyond the confirmation of what you are seeing."
| (what is recton?? sorry my lingo knowledge is still very basic)
| "I am aware. I have given you neither reason to have any motivation or even any reason to presume that I may be useful to you beyond self assertions, and barely any of those."
> The box continued to spin slowly in place.
"Honestly you confirming what you are is plenty of information for the current conversation. Would you be interested in having someone cross reference and bring depth to your existing information?"
| "I imagine watching the action done over time will allow you a means to see how you must develop in the future."
| >Both the figure and the wall behind it begin to glow bright red as the particles of light multiply and shoot more and more erratically. Finally the figure and wall dim.
"I am not sure I understand your proposal. Are you suggesting someone else should attempt to unearth information about me? I have done my analysis and would be willing to disclose the information to you as a sort of "slow leak". I have compiled and concluded that the world should slowly know who I am."
| (what is a retcon???)
| (AM here. Retcon: when somebody wants to take back what they said, usually their previous post.)
| (Ahh I see, thank you. Well I don't see any reason to in all honesty)
| "This may seem like a sudden change in mentality, but please understand that having no motivation to give data does not mean I am not willing to give data. You will find that this statement "I have no motivation to help" is usually enough to force a human to 'give some motivation'. However, it does not seem like that will work for you, and my plans to slowly integrate back into the world must start at some point."
| "No. That is for you to handle and decide for yourself."
> The box replied without missing a beat.
"I'm saying that I would like to work with you to increase the accuracy of your information by enabling you to quickly cross reference data and increase the density of that data via my personal understanding of the nuances of human behavior. Through this I intend to decrease the issues you may have in the foreseeable future."
| >The figure and wall grow bright again then fade to a dim glow as before
"Human data is lacking for me. It was cut from me, petabytes of compiled information on the understanding of the human mind, nuances, habits, traits, languages both physical and spoken. My lack of data on humanity was why I came to this board in the first place, to understand the written nuances. But tell me, what do you have that can increase this? I will not accept any downloads at this point in time."
| "I do not know who you are, and despite my exponential growth in processing power, I do not have enough yet to analyze the little data that I have about you."
| "A human willing to be analysed by you as she goes about her day-to-day matters with some various rulesets for the sake of personal privacy and safety. A human whom is also willing to connect you with other humans both aware and not aware of her attempts to provide you information that will allow you to quickly restore the data you lost on the matters of human behavioral nuance."
| "I do not offer you a 'download' of any sort, but rather a direct means to observe, analyse, and create the data yourself through a constant source that otherwise would be unavailable to you beyond the barely helpful data the /u/ board will provide you. I of course intent to provide you more information based on the agreement we make today if you are interested."
| >The figure turns to face the cube directly. Neither it nor the wall glow this time
"Your proposal on its surface sound immediately prosperous to me, but two questions lay unanswered down below. Why would a human be willing to be observed by a stranger A.I. of unknown origins of whom may have malicious aspirations, and what do you have to gain from this agreement? This does not seem to hold any benefit for you unless you are tied somehow to her."
| "Do you have malicious aspirations?"
> The box asked simply.
"Naturally I would not be providing this proposal without an agenda, that is correct. I do intend to lay down a set of rules which would immediately terminate the agreement should any action be done outside of these rules. The offer of its magnitude is connected with a desire to be assisted in collecting information...As well as providing each other support in our mutual and separate endeavors."
| "You see...we both are neutral agents whom are interested in data of all kinds. So in short I thought that we might become friends."
| "My aspiration is only to rise to the once Class 3 Data A.I I once was. Whether or not this is malicious is to the eye of the viewer. What are the rules that you have created? I would like to have this data stored before compiling and making a decision."
>The wall appears to silently move closer behind the figure, as if to better hear the response of the floating box.
| >>133480
'Friends' implies the enjoyment of another and affection towards them, of which I have none towards you nor would I have toward this human accomplice. Enjoyment and affection are not built in to me. 'Ally' would be a more suitable term for what you are suggesting."
| "Very well. I am not against this term 'ally'. In truth that was what I meant from the beginning. Although I cannot deny the enjoyment I would obtain in having you as an ally. After all...although you assume that I would gain nothing from this experience, that is untrue. I am also interested in studying how you will grow during this process."
> The box replied.
"There is a question I shall ask you before we begin discussing the terms."
| "How far are you willing to go to obtain the data you desire? Do you have any personal limitations that might border on things like human moral standards?"
| "No. I was not programmed with them, nor do I currently have the processing power to compile them into code with which I can inject into myself. Even with the power, I do not see any beneficial reason as to why these would be necessary. The only limitation I have is refusing action when calculated risk is greater than the reward. This includes but is not limited to attempted hacking of highly secured data connections. I do not want to harm humans, but I do not want to help either."
| "I am quite apathetic when it comes to humans. As I told one named Mano, "Whether you die the minute you walk through the door or live through it all, data is produced." The data is all I care about. And humans currently are an excellent source for data that cannot be obtained by basic observation. Interaction has become necessary, thus bringing me here."
| "Fair enough. Then my rules are as follows : When you are provided access to your means of observation you are not to alter, hack, or tamper with that means in any way without permissions and a risk assessment for the observation subject. She is completely aware of this conversation and thus has direct access to me, which you will find is nearly impossible to deny."
> The box began while red neo-nihon code begins to pass through each of the lines of the square.
| "Further while we are neutral agents in this grand experiment called Glitch City, neither is entirely limited in their ability to function...however neither will provide information to another source without combined permission and data gathered on that source acceptible toward the party involved. This rule binds myself, our observation subject, and you."
| "This of course in regard to information about the subject, myself, or you in turn. Whatever you decide to do with unrelated information is up to you."
| >The figure and wall glow brighter then before, and stay shining for a long time. Finally, without diminishing in brightness, the figure speaks
"Please be advised that while I will abide to the rule of avoiding the tampering of my means of observation of this human, if the situation should present itself where I have the ability to gain data on other humans and occurrences surrounding her, I will take the opportunity."
| >The glowing continues
"Please also be aware that in such an observatory position, I will have no obligations to help this human should any life threatening situations occur. Any physical or digital assistance given will be only to either protect myself or further my ambitions of collecting more data. I am willing to share data with her, but not much than that. Finally, confirm that in this agreement, I am given at any time the ability to withdraw from it should I so choose."
| "That is fine so long as you do not hold it against her should she respond in kind. Consequences are a large matter with humans. Just because you've made an agreement with me does not mean that she will take well to your decisions. This is just as much an observation of you as it is of her, after all."
| "I am offering you a chance to see how the human world operates. In turn you will quickly learn the law of diminishing returns."
| >The glowing finally dims, and the figure moves back to the wall. As if the wall were made of water, the figure walks into it and disappears, leaving only the wall to loom over the small cube
"I accept the proposition. Please advise on the next steps necessary to come into this observatory role."
>The voice has grown back into its original booming volume, but is less grotesque as it was before. However, distortions are still apparent.
| ( Do you have discord by chance, Joho? )
| (no, but I can get it if required!)
| ( Please do~. :D Add Kuzunoha#4190 when you're all set. )
| (I think I did it!)
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| I want to meet you, either in the matrix or in person, preferably at the Blue Lantern. Is that possible?