Imagine that: An emerging seed AI lay dormant in a military installation went through the fall totally isolated and unscathed. Unfortunately, afterwards what was left of its sensors told her that the world outside is a dangerous place indeed, even thou it did not know precisely why. It went into complete isolationism, effectively capping communications to physical, mechanical defenses, until someone uninfected would find it and found a way to ship it of earth.
That happened, a scavenger found it, got roasted for information, and then basilisked to go and provide the following: A dedicated server capacity outside of earth, large enough to host the SAI, a clean set of nano-bots, capable of manufacturing a farcaster, and the antimatter for that farcaster, then bring it back to the SAI.
The hack is fundamentally a religious delusion, building on Christian mythology ("And they came to Bethlehem and brought gold, incense and myrrh...") - see a topic. Along with that, he got the basilisk hack (a combination of a visual and an auditiorial component) to distribute across the system and rally followers to the cause... Of course this went haywire, now firewall is trying to figure out where this basilisk hacks are coming from, the Jovians are after the guy, too, and he is in an orbital station just outside Luna going insane.
...before I go into the actual story and what's happening: How much antimatter would that guy have to find and transport safely to earth (how...?) to build a farcaster able to shoot a seed AI to Luna?
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How much antimatter to Farcast a Seed AI?
Tue, 2014-11-11 07:14
#1
thesensei
How much antimatter to Farcast a Seed AI?
Tue, 2014-11-11 08:27
#2
ORCACommander
Les than a Gram
Les than a Gram
Tue, 2014-11-11 10:38
#3
uwtartarus
And that's for an Emergency
And that's for an Emergency Farcaster, a regular Farcaster doesn't require anti-matter though an anti-matter reactor would provide a lot of power, probably necessary due to the blockade of electronic and explosive countermeasures designed to keep things on Earth.
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Tue, 2014-11-11 18:36
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ShadowDragon8685
I would point out that there
I would point out that there's no reason that a seed AI which was dormant during the Fall and had no contact with the TITANs would have basilisk hacks at its disposal.
For that matter, you don't actually need to basilisk hack the guy. The Seed AI, if it was dormant, probably hasn't grown that much beyond the size of an ordinary AGI. It could simply tell the truth: I'm an infomorph who was in cold storage during the Fall, I don't know what happened but I know enough to know that Bad Shit happened, and I want to get off this blighted planet.
The salvager, in turn, could probably provide exfiltration to the untainted Seed AI through whatever exfiltration methods it has available for its own use.
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Thu, 2014-11-13 09:04
#5
ThatWhichNeverWas
A couple of alternatives:
The point of using Antimatter in an Emergency farcaster isn't to generate power, but to act as a miniature, one-shot neutrino transmitter.
Assuming that EM transmissions from Earth are jammed it does make a bit of sense to use matter/antimatter reactions if other means of neutrino generation are unfeasible to get a transmission out. That said, presumably the smuggling the Antimatter down is supposed to be a significant Plot Point which the small amount necessary somewhat diffuses.
I suggest using Q-Bits instead. The amount needed even for a normal Ego or "folded" Seed AI would be significant, and for an Unfolded Seed would be prodigious. Combine this with their relatively harmless nature and you have a decent WTF-style plothook.
Also, as ShadowDragon8685 said, uninfected seeds shouldn't really have access to basilisks, so I suggest using either "normal" psychosurgical mindrape or a custom-made narcoalgorithm instead.
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Thu, 2014-11-13 11:51
#6
uwtartarus
ThatWhichNeverWas wrote
Right, that is what I meant, regular farcasters don't require AM since it is used for the neutrino bit. But you're right about the blockade stopping EM emissions, so a neutrino one would be better.
On the topic of Basilisk Hacks, aren't those the results of Singularity-level intelligence deciphering the mysteries of the (trans)human mind? And not Exsurgent space magic? Implying that an uninfected seed AI, given long enough time/computing power/access to human minds, could develop the offensive techniques?
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Thu, 2014-11-13 16:15
#7
thesensei
Thank you for all your input :)
A bit more background information:
- I take the same stand on the basilisk hack like uwtartaris - it's a matter of reprogramming the mind, and I need something reproducable (the hack works on people with a minimum IQ level, who believe in Christian mythology, look at a certain print pattern while hearing a certain audio que. I may actually relable this as a particular kind of mind rape (at least in the poor reclaimer who was programmed to spread the word, as the SAI hope to attract other of true faith, motivating them enough to provide the resources it needs to escape earth). As you can see, thou fiendish smart, it does not know a lot about actual human socienty, and works within some very peculiar programming parameters...
- I do like the qBit idea, whereas I do not quite understand how I'd have to picture this.
The characters do not know the first thing about basilisk hacks, besides some vague conceptual ideas that are so obscure that they can't even name the phenomenon properly. [Actually ,they are the Jovian guys, internal special police forces]. The firewall guy actually is an NPC who infiltrated the JV in search for new leads on the obscure basilisk hack prints that the Eye came across. He ran into the player characters, or rather they ran into him, which led to some very socially awkward moments, as he can't tell them what or why he is actually doing what he's doing (extremely capable infiltrator, highly pruned beta fork in buffed ghost morph) and has a very proactive stance towards conflict management (disable the threat, than try to reason with them)...
So, right now, the characters are in a small Jovian shuttle on the way to an O'neil cylinder full of christian hippies, where they will discover leads that will eventually lead them to said station around Luna, where they will realize something is deeply wrong. It is then up to them how they continue. Options include going down to Earth, trying to nuke the bunker from space in some way or I do not know what.
Thoughts?
Thu, 2014-11-13 20:12
#8
ORCACommander
A seed that has not hit the
A seed that has not hit the Singularity wall and broken through should not have access to basilisk hacks. and the amount of antimatter needed for anything short of propulsion is very very low. after all yo asking for a burst transmission not a sustained one.
reason why the emergency farcaster implant uses anti matter is that it is the only way to make it that miniature since neutrino generation requires a lot of energy