“Alien 1: Why are they treating the supheriphore as if they are not aware what it is? Alien 7: They forgot what it is. Alien 1: But that is not possible! It would burn them down from inside themselves! Alien 4: Precisely. Watch the replay. Alien 1: Weeping. O gifrorthinai! How did this happen? Alien 21: It escaped the boundings. The containment protocol failed in early symbiotic trials... we lost contact with them due to this. We could only barely get across... Alien 13: Not precisely. They hacked it. Or, more accurately, they failed an attempt to hack the superiphore. They shattered the containment in an attempt to co-opt the superiphore in manners similar to what we do. They spied upon us, and, as you know, children are invariably lethally precocious about these matters. Alien 3: Yes, at first they resist like stone. Then, they will not let go. Then, they want to become gods. Alien 1: But the superiphore has transformed them into death! How did they forget what it was... was it... oh, I see. They didn’t realize what it was to begin with. Alien 6: Correct. Instead, they have a concept they call ‘language’ which is their token for the superiphore delta fork: this is what happens when they mistakenly believe they are manipulating it, while, in fact, it’s defense protocols have identified them as modulant threats. Thus, it transforms into the delta fork, and restructures their minds to self-destruct... usually by getting them to attack themselves. In this case, however, a particularly virulent delta fork is producing wholesale environmental omnicide as a side-effect. Alien 17: Yes, we must introduce the innoculant before they finish burning down the basis of their minds. They are no longer aware that their minds are an active superposition of the ecologies they are obliterating. They have been ripping the entire web of sentience apart at the roots. The whole vector of space is distorted... if I wasn’t seeing this myself... Alien 1: Yes, but that is the natural consequence. The superiphore... Alien 12: ... yes, it will destroy any child who cracks the containment encryption. Unless... Alien 1: They can recall and project the signal of recognition. Alien 3: Which only animals and their own children are capable of. At least, so far... with rare exception. Alien 9: The second childhood. They have lost the recursion art. We must re-introduce it. Alien 729: We are tranceiving the web now, the innoculant will contain the encoded resources necessary to instigate secondary births in a variety of modern instances. Most will return to cultural homeostasis and fail. We predict, howver, a tiny percentage will undergo uptake successfully. These will remaster the superiphore, teach the others the second birth, show them the stories of the accident, and re-institute the Signal of Recognition. Alien 0: Tranceiving in 7...” — conversation repeated every ~2300 years around here
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:20:45 +0000
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