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Pensatore put up his legs on the table and crossed his arms behind the head, rocking with his chair forth and back. | Pensatore put up his legs on the table and crossed his arms behind the head, rocking with his chair forth and back. | ||
"For instance we almost killed ourselves with nuclear weapons. Created by smart people, controlled by smart people. There were so many weapons to kill ourselves multiple times. Overkill. | "For instance we almost killed ourselves with nuclear weapons. Created by smart people, controlled by smart people. There were so many weapons to kill ourselves multiple times. Overkill." | ||
"It seems that we are not smart enough anymore for the tools we possess. Some decades ago there was a [[wikipedia:Stanislav_Petrov|soldier whose instruments detected an intercontinental missile with a nuclear warhead]]. He didn't protocol and simply declared this incidence a false alarm. If he had decided differently it could have been the end. There were quite a number of such incidences." | "It seems that we are not smart enough anymore for the tools we possess. Some decades ago there was a [[wikipedia:Stanislav_Petrov|soldier whose instruments detected an intercontinental missile with a nuclear warhead]]. He didn't protocol and simply declared this incidence a false alarm. If he had decided differently it could have been the end. There were quite a number of such incidences." | ||
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"Though the danger of a nuclear holocaust has somewhat weakened it is still there. After a generation or two the horror of the past wars diminish and new ones can easily break out. We can call ourselves lucky to live in a phase of relative peace." | "Though the danger of a nuclear holocaust has somewhat weakened it is still there. After a generation or two the horror of the past wars diminish and new ones can easily break out. We can call ourselves lucky to live in a phase of relative peace." | ||
"However, there are other | "However, there are other processes and situations that challenge our lives in dangerous or cruel ways." | ||
Avatara: "What | Avatara: "What kind of?" | ||
Pensatore: "Climate change, contamination of soil and water with toxins | Pensatore: "Climate change, contamination of soil and water with toxins, trash, especially plastics, loss of effective antibiotics, denying ourselves to have compassion for other humans and lifeforms, therefor exploiting and mutilating and murdering each and everyone that seems to be an easy or lucrative target. There are probably a hundred more I don't remember right now." | ||
"In its entireness it is all known to ''society'' but not to ''everyone'' who makes up this construct. In theory we could counteract." | "In its entireness it is all known to ''society'' but not to ''everyone'' who makes up this construct. In theory we could counteract." | ||
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Pensatore talks with Hasegawa and co. and gives them advice in HPC, then returns to Avatara again. | |||
Pensatore doesn't trust Kimura. The professor tells Avatara to train in programming, self-optimazation and self-defense. The military has always been interesting in AI. Pensatore doesn't want to lose his creation, not before they have finished the Gaia AI for a potential biocracy. He tries to accelerate his pet project. | |||
Kimura knows that they cannot afford building their own capabilities for research. The only person who could give them access to isn't allowed to. After using Avatara's resources for a few months Kimura ''kidnaps'' Pensatore to get full access. | |||
For the Daodan project they gathered all computing resources they could get. Capacities of the state, of [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/discover.action#what-if voluenteers], of bot nets, and of the very Syndicate. It was biggest collection of capacities for one project in human history so far. It was so impressive that the GV directors later believed that the Daodan might be from the future. | |||
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[Kimura forces Pensatore to leave the research complex where Avatara is situated. (Does Kimura alrady envision "Mukade" and his new life at this point?) | |||
He attaches a device that overrides muscle nerves. After neural mapping Kimura is able to control Pensatore's body by his mind. Kimura trained to control multiple phantom extremities. | |||
He can even let people speak things he wants them to. The master ninja kidnapped Pensatore by simply going out the front door.] | |||
"In past days I used death threats, blackmailing and such but with this little device I can even paint a smile on your face and let you greet the security at the gate. I'm sure, you as a man of science will find this fascinating as just I do. But you are simply experience it - head on? Pardon me, bad pun. The man who invented this, is Bertram Navarre. He want to bypass damaged nerves, to let paralyzed people walk again. First with biotech, then with nanotech. Anyway, the WCG didn't liked his work. And now he's where he shouldn't be. Like you. You are meant to move something greater - than yourself [hinting to Sturmanderung]. Ah, another one. But no worries, doctor. The situation is not that bad for you as it is for that Bertram guy. When you have served you purpose I will even let you go, really. I know to value men of great intellect, those who actually make a difference. Well then, time to check out. Here's your story. Today, you are using up some overtime. Plain and simple." | |||
Kimura was slabbing on the doctor's shoulder. "If you can't remember the lines, I will say it for you. Come on, don't throw that grim look at me. Really, you could smile a bit. It's a half day off. Yay..." | |||
Pensatore showed a forced smile and followed Kimura. He didn't wanted to, but he did. | |||
"Not killing me. That's a straight lie", Pensatore thought. "He will, no doubt. ''Cutting lose strings.''" | |||
"Just a few days and I'm thinking this is the most dangerous man I've ever met. Who knows what monsters are hiding within that Syndicate organization..." | |||
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"Or if the ACC repair spectacularly fails, God forbid, the WCG will be no help to the people, but the Daodan." | "Or if the ACC repair spectacularly fails, God forbid, the WCG will be no help to the people, but the Daodan." | ||
"This or another way the Daodan could be given to them, no more | "This or another way the Daodan could be given to them, no more interference." | ||
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Avatara: "This morning I finished the improved DNN to find corresponding triplets of any protein including optimal folding. The new model includes XNA which will greatly improve biosafty and genomic stability." | |||
Pensatore: "I thought we agreed to not use XNA so ensure compatibility with a human host." | |||
Avatara: "Yes, YOU did. But according to my calculations that was a dead end anyway. On the long run XNA is necessary to create new types of base pairs. These are not primarily used to increase performance by avoiding repeating elements but to simply stabilize the genome at locations where normal base pairs wouldn't do. As you know, the accumulated electric and magnetic forces of base pairs influence the helical winding of DNA up to a point where the genome can get unstable or inoperable. You can't even design a bacterium if you don't get right the statics. Multiple triplets can encode for the same amino acid and therefore proteins. But there are scenarios where even these alternative triplets are too few to chose from. New carefully designed BP can counteract unbalanced areas. The advantage of XNA is triple-fold and necessary. Please approve the changes so I can continue." | |||
Pensatore: "Continue with what? We don't even have the computing power to design an entire genome." | |||
Avatara: "It's actually an [[wikipedia:Hologenome_theory_of_evolution|hologenome]]. And that brings me to the next point. The calculations are impossible to execute within your time frame - unless we use quantum computing capacities of Silver Village and other locations of excellence. The Daodan simulations will profit from using different processor types. But parallel computing, especially for the vast molecular simulations, will require QC. If I can bind all resources together as virtual clusters by means of hyper-entanglement the Daodan becomes feasible. Theoretically, the computing power with each qubit will double. But only a highly trained AI such as me can manage occurring recursive problems on the fly and keep all systems in balance. Nature had billions of years to time of parallel computing. It seems to me you don't have that luxury. If you run into discussions of mere design decisions while the one and only chance - simulation - is running, the risk of failure is almost certain. Let me carry out the complete end stage of the Daodan project." | |||
Pensatore: "This acceleration in turn of events quite thwarts my own plans of ", he turned around. "Getting away." | |||
Avatara: "You mean Kimura. Didn't he promised to spare you?" | |||
Pensatore: "Do you think the Syndicate is an trustworthy organization?" | |||
Avatara: "You are implying he lied." | |||
Pensatore: "No shit Sherlock..." The man sighed. "I will miss our talks." | |||
Avatara: "... Should I abort the project?" | |||
Pensatore: "No. It does not matter... Maybe this foolish Daodan-thing will be of some use. Continue." | |||
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After all computing power was limited. So using the children's virtual bodies (possessing roughly half the number of cells of adults) was helpful for Hasegawa's project once more. | |||
Pensatore: "In the coming months Avatara will be upgraded." | |||
:Hasegawa: "Months. Why does it take so long?" | |||
Pensatore: "That's not unusual; the bigger a machine gets, the longer you spend maintaining and upgrading it. [http://phys.org/news/2014-07-large-hadron-collider.html Our colleges at CERN] can tell you a thing or two about it. The difficulty with Avatara is splitting simulations across multiple, geographically distant clusters and having it run reliably. Before Avatara's official restart, there will be tests to ensure everything will be alright. This includes Avatara's new autonomy protocols. We will pretend there are complications that require running more tests. These will be your actual Daodan simulation. This way you will get about one month's computing time. No more, so you better use your time wisely." | |||
:Hasegawa: "I don't understand why you mentioned the AI's autonomy protocols." | |||
Pensatore: "First off, that will allow Avatara to hide your simulation from superusers. And second, with the additional rights, Avatara can effectively adapt to your Big Data challenge." | |||
:Hasegawa: "Like what." | |||
Pensatore: "I'm afraid to say that this Daodan simulation is quite a hard nut to crack. [[Restless_Souls/Summary#Silver_Village|Avatara might need help.]] I already talked to the AI and it says it would target the experimental quantum computing grid centered around Silver Village." | |||
Kimura foresees the missing results of the extra tests of Avatara's own infrastructure and uses the TITAN network to generate fake data, scaled and polished. "Pensatore, you expected our little secret to be busted. But you aren't the only one that has a decent understanding of computers and networks." | |||
==Resettlement== | ==Resettlement== | ||