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expiationlogs2024-08-05 01:09 pm
finalfrontiersman) wrote in expiationlogs2024-08-05 01:09 pm
[ open ] science is neat, but I’m afraid it’s not very forgiving
Who: Jim Kirk, Spock, Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker, & You!
Where: STEM room at the club building.
What: Open house at STEM!
Content Warnings: Probably profanity, canon-typical lab accidents.
Where: STEM room at the club building.
What: Open house at STEM!
Content Warnings: Probably profanity, canon-typical lab accidents.
WELCOME TO STEM
Welcome to STEM! The room is cramped with activity, a bit of an organized chaos - well, if you ignore the fire in the corner. It's probably fine, don't worry about it; someone will rush in with the well-used fire extinguisher soon.
The walls are completely covered in writing and project diagrams, loosely organized based on what type of project it is: a physical engineering build, chemical synthesis, or coding work. The STEM members can be found flitting between projects, and are always down to assess new projects people might bring in to see what they can do.
The walls are completely covered in writing and project diagrams, loosely organized based on what type of project it is: a physical engineering build, chemical synthesis, or coding work. The STEM members can be found flitting between projects, and are always down to assess new projects people might bring in to see what they can do.
STEM TEAM
FIRST TIME?
The activity in the room can be overwhelming, but never fear; the STEM club members are all fairly approachable. Jim can be found at one of the worktables, offering beginner lessons in coding and technology basics, for those who may find Aldrip's advancements foreign.
On the other side of the room, the spider-teens are hard at work at the chemistry and engineering bench. All newcomers are encouraged to wear goggles and gloves, and observe proper lab safety protocol. Gwen and Peter are happy to help with improvements to the community or any projects the Chosen might bring to them.
As for Spock? Well, he's certainly something. When most filter into the room, they'll note that he spends the bulk of his time putting out the oft metaphorical or literal fires (though, 57.3% of the time he is the one setting most things alight), but never quite engages as readily and as surely as the others do.
Either way, when he's not tangled up in his own projects (and even when he is), he tends to shadow Jim. He seems most comfortable, upon further observation, when seated beside him. You might even get Spock to talk about what he's up to or help you out with items of your own if you catch him just right (if, well, the pile of assorted goods often dissembled and reassembled between everything else he appears to be doing is any real indication).
On the other side of the room, the spider-teens are hard at work at the chemistry and engineering bench. All newcomers are encouraged to wear goggles and gloves, and observe proper lab safety protocol. Gwen and Peter are happy to help with improvements to the community or any projects the Chosen might bring to them.
As for Spock? Well, he's certainly something. When most filter into the room, they'll note that he spends the bulk of his time putting out the oft metaphorical or literal fires (though, 57.3% of the time he is the one setting most things alight), but never quite engages as readily and as surely as the others do.
Either way, when he's not tangled up in his own projects (and even when he is), he tends to shadow Jim. He seems most comfortable, upon further observation, when seated beside him. You might even get Spock to talk about what he's up to or help you out with items of your own if you catch him just right (if, well, the pile of assorted goods often dissembled and reassembled between everything else he appears to be doing is any real indication).
FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT
If you're in an experimenting mood, perhaps you'll find yourself in the company of Gwen and Peter and their endless box of prototypes, in between messy blueprints and chicken-scratch papers.
As much as STEM pushes lab safety, practicing what they preach is easier said than done. Accidents do happen - the passive-aggressive lab safety flyers and fire extinguishers (are some of those empty by the door?) are there for a reason. If you happen to notice a fire before the excited nerds, feel free to leap into action - lucky you, there's a fire extinguisher within reach.
As much as STEM pushes lab safety, practicing what they preach is easier said than done. Accidents do happen - the passive-aggressive lab safety flyers and fire extinguishers (are some of those empty by the door?) are there for a reason. If you happen to notice a fire before the excited nerds, feel free to leap into action - lucky you, there's a fire extinguisher within reach.
CODING CLINIC
There's a workstation off to the side littered with computer parts, and when Jim isn't flitting between stations or teaching, he can be found situated at the computer terminal, plugging away at more complex code. Today, he's pouring over strings of data and building communicators - a bunch of them sit in a bucket by his feet as he finishes building each one.
Spock can be found where he usually is, situated toward the sidelines, buried in coding so complex that it makes one's eyes glaze over the longer they stare at it. Or, well, maybe that's the speed of his input?
Spock can be found where he usually is, situated toward the sidelines, buried in coding so complex that it makes one's eyes glaze over the longer they stare at it. Or, well, maybe that's the speed of his input?
HEY, WHAT'S THAT?
Spend long enough in the STEM club (or pay enough attention), and you might find yourself drifting towards the back corner. All of the STEM team members have drifted by at some point, and seem to be working on a more...sensitive project. Perhaps you received a message and this is what you're here for, or perhaps one of them pulled you aside and nudged you in this direction.
Jim is discretely handing out communicators and taking down names in a notebook; there's another terminal over here, with telemetry data that the STEM members seem to be debating throughout the day - adding numbers to a map of Aldrip that they not-so-casually cover with whatever's within closest reach whenever someone new approaches.
Jim is discretely handing out communicators and taking down names in a notebook; there's another terminal over here, with telemetry data that the STEM members seem to be debating throughout the day - adding numbers to a map of Aldrip that they not-so-casually cover with whatever's within closest reach whenever someone new approaches.
OOC INFO
Check out the OOC plotting post here; sign up for an exploration team for the player plot happening August 26th!
Want to plot out some involvement? Feel free to hit up any of the STEM members in the Game Discord / wherever you might have us added, we'll be happy to help get your character involved!
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I'm pretty sure they just put us here to play with. All the talk of rehabilitation is empty talk. I don't know why they would want us here, but I'm certain they just want to fuck with us somehow.
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[The meetings with Rher were pretty simple as far as he knew. Logic was another story, though...]
Um, and I guess I met another...but I don't really know what she wanted from us. That one, uh, Logic...she might be connected to, um, whatever Machine God is connected to this place. I don't know if that's the Council or the AI or just the place itself, though.
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Still, Jim takes it in stride, blinking at Levi as he works his way through that piece of information. ] ...do you have the same feeling around here? In Aldrip?
No one's ever seen the Council, so it's kind of difficult to make a determination. [ Look, Jim keeps an open mind, but Godly beings? The things is - they know so little about what's really going on here, he can't dismiss the notion, either. ] The AI definitely runs some of the functions around here, though. Well, as far as we can tell.
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[He sighs.]
I don't really get computers or AI. Its all over my head.
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[ Jim's been met a couple hive-mind situations in his time, but he doesn't think that's what Levi is describing. ]
It sounds more complicated than it is, I promise. An AI - depending on the sophistication of its programming - can have its own kind of consciousness. The one around here seems...sufficiently sophisticated. But it's under someone else's control, so it's difficult to discern it's true intentions.
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[He sighs. He was promised rest and he sure hasn't gotten it here.]
Then I was in some other void, then in this place. I don't know if I died back home or what happened. But if there's some connection to her I don't feel it at all.
An AI is, um, like a created person? Like a...uh...golem or something? But has something to do with computers. I knew someone had to create it but I didn't know it was under someone's control. I guess that makes sense...if someone could make a person like that they'd be the type to want to control them.
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Sort of, but not quite as instantaneous as a golem would suggest. It's based on a dataset - so we take a bunch of information and we feed it into the computer program. We teach it using the dataset - like, this is what happy looks like, this is what sad looks like, etc, because it doesn't know anything until you tell it what it is. [ A completely blank slate. Jim could understand how that could be confusing. ] Eventually, it starts to build its own connections, and think for itself. But it's all based on what data you give it at the start - if you teach an AI "this is the enemy" and then - I don't know, feed it a picture of a dog, it will learn to hate dogs. Make sense?
Yeah, until an AI is sufficiently advanced, it's controlled by the dataset and whoever programmed it. Stopping it could still be as simple as unplugging the machine.
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[He's not sure if that's good or bad for them.]
But they might be connected? The people who made Logic wanted her to connect with everything. I-I don't know. I'm not smart enough to figure that out.
[He thinks a bit on that explanation.]
So it gets made and then you have to teach it? Train it like, uh, like a dog?
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[ As much as it's a comfort, Jim would also rather they not be trapped here with him. ]
It's possible. We can't rule it out. Is there something we should look out for that would indicate Logic's involvement?
Yeah, it's kind of a blank slate. It doesn't know how things work, innately - whereas a living being understands certain things. Like that it needs to drink water when it's thirsty - an AI doesn't have that kind of baseline.
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Maybe. Its not like we know anything about how or why it brings people here.
Um...her sigil, maybe. Do you have something I can write on? I haven't seen it anywhere, though. All the Gods where I'm from have sigils.
So...they build it up and train it so they can completely control it?
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Yeah, one sec - [ Jim casts about his workstation for a blank bit of paper - it's all covered in his chickenscratch with Spock's neat handwriting in the margins, correcting or adding extra notes. He's not as meticulously organized as the workstation to his left. ] Here, ah, and a pen.
Well, that's not always the intention. Just like with anything, it depends on the person. But it very well could be, in this case. The AI is locked under a lot of security, from what we could ascertain.
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[He wasn't really good at figuring things out.
He finds an empty place on the paper and draws a symbol before stepping back.]
That's hers. I don't know how sigils or anything works, so it might be more something humans use to get a god's attention than something the god itself puts somewhere. I haven't tried anything like it here, but back where I come from they can be used with the right type of circle to call on a god's power.
[Though he gathers what happened during Termina wasn't how they always worked.]
It keeps saying it can't do stuff, or just saying weird things when we try to ask it things. I'd guess the Council or whatever is controlling it pretty tightly.
Which means its kind of weird it can talk to us at all, isn't it?
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Hm. You haven't tried to use it in a circle here, have you?
[ Whether that would result in anything, good or bad, remained to be seen. ]
Yes, I think they are. We're not sure what changed to get it talking to us in the first place, but it's possible the AI is becoming advanced enough to break free of its constraints.
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He shakes his head.]
I haven't seen any ritual circles here and I don't know enough to draw one. But that's probably for the best, magic is hard and I'd probably fuck it up.
[Also he wants as little to do with gods as possible.]
C-can they do that?
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He nods, rapping his knuckles thoughtfully against the table. ] It's a possibility. It depends on how clever the AI is versus the person that created it - it's been given an enormous amount of power, and we don't know how many checks and balances were coded into place to prevent that from happening.
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I, um, do you think this one breaking free would be good or bad?
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It's hard to say. It depends on what it's new primary directive becomes, if it breaks free of whatever it currently has driving it. I'd...like to think so, but I can't say for certain.
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Do you have any ideas what it's new, um, p-primary directive would be?
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[Logic chain? And what are the AI's current circumstances?]
I, uh, guess so. I'm not really good with that sort of thing.
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