Experiment 10 - Kappa

[testingphase]

[ The elevators do not take you up to your living area. Rather, they take you DOWN, to a small room with three white walls, and one that is a thick, translucent plastic. There appears to be a chute of some sort behind the plastic wall. ]

Now, in order to determine how well you know each other, we're going to see which teams are the most popular. The rules are simple:

* At the end of the test, each team will suffer an attack. Each attack will kill about half of everyone present.
* You may choose one team (other than your own) to defend from this attack. A team that is defended will not be harmed.
* If you wish to defend yourself instead of another team, you must choose a team to attack.
* You may not refuse to choose.

Comments

[unguilded]

Killing, huh?

[ he looks like he's thinking about this deeply for a moment. But now he's here, and he's stuck, and can't help what's about to happen, if and when it does. ]

So this is what it feels like, facing a moment like this. Even though in a situation like this...

[ trying to untense his shoulders, as he properly wrap his mind around this. He looks up. ]

Here's a question! Even though I have a feeling I know what the answer is. If we don't choose, we're going to die anyway, right?

[shockingly_nice]

That's right. And there will be a penalty for forfeiting as well.

[unguilded]

You really enjoy bringing death into the equation when it comes to these tests! What a sadistic attitude for a robot to have.

[shockingly_nice]

Really? And do you have a great deal of experience with robots' attitudes?

[unguilded]

Nope! Because machines don't have their own forms of self control or intelligence like you where I come from.

And now I see why things should stay that way!

[shockingly_nice]

Now, that's unfair. There are plenty of AIs in this facility who have no interest in murdering you. The door mainframe, for example.

[unguilded]

That doesn't mean they're protected from being reprogrammed or changed so easily.

[shockingly_nice]

Do you think I could be changed easily?

[unguilded]

If someone who knew a lot about that sort of thing was able to get close enough, I don't see why not.

[shockingly_nice]

You're wrong. People who knew a lot about a lot of things made more than a few attempts.

[unguilded]

Were they able to finish those attempts?

[shockingly_nice]

A few.