"Yuu?"
"Yes, Yayoi?"
"I think mother will need someone to spin-doctor that away, if she doesn't want everyone to treat her like a Boskonian."
Noah sighed. "A.C.'s always been like that. I think Yuu's mother got it from her."
Yuu looked cross for a moment. "If you're trying to goad me into helping you..." Then she smiled and stood. "... it's working. Nobody's going to answer the phone while this is going on, so I'll go see what Public Relations can do to help without being obvious."
Noah waited for the door to close behind Yuu before turning to Yayoi. "Why did you get Yuu to leave?"
"I know how mother thinks just as well as you do, Noah. I didn't want Yuu to realize A.C. put the capability for that sort of behavior in our base programming, especially since our ethics routines aren't part of her core code."
Kohran shook her head ruefully. "Good intentions, but I think she already knows. Think back to the first Cosmic Party."
Yayoi winced. "Oh, right."
"Even without those routines," Leda pointed out, "she's turned out pretty well. Yuu learned her ethics the same way Helen will learn hers."
Takami suddenly cleared her throat. "How much of what A.C. is getting is going to come out of the game with her?"
"None of it could..." Noah started, then thought for a moment. "Or could it? I could probably build them bodies, and so could the Professor, so it would be a cinch for A.C. Maybe she'll want Safety's plans for Phobos and Deimos - I'd better make a copy of those for her. After this is finished."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"Yes, Yayoi?"
"I think mother will need someone to spin-doctor that away, if she doesn't want everyone to treat her like a Boskonian."
Noah sighed. "A.C.'s always been like that. I think Yuu's mother got it from her."
Yuu looked cross for a moment. "If you're trying to goad me into helping you..." Then she smiled and stood. "... it's working. Nobody's going to answer the phone while this is going on, so I'll go see what Public Relations can do to help without being obvious."
Noah waited for the door to close behind Yuu before turning to Yayoi. "Why did you get Yuu to leave?"
"I know how mother thinks just as well as you do, Noah. I didn't want Yuu to realize A.C. put the capability for that sort of behavior in our base programming, especially since our ethics routines aren't part of her core code."
Kohran shook her head ruefully. "Good intentions, but I think she already knows. Think back to the first Cosmic Party."
Yayoi winced. "Oh, right."
"Even without those routines," Leda pointed out, "she's turned out pretty well. Yuu learned her ethics the same way Helen will learn hers."
Takami suddenly cleared her throat. "How much of what A.C. is getting is going to come out of the game with her?"
"None of it could..." Noah started, then thought for a moment. "Or could it? I could probably build them bodies, and so could the Professor, so it would be a cinch for A.C. Maybe she'll want Safety's plans for Phobos and Deimos - I'd better make a copy of those for her. After this is finished."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012