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>Ok look at this logically. If the problem is widespread then you won't have much trouble finding more glitched processes. If it's not, then this isn't urgent.
That is a good point. I suppose I shall continue on and meet with Eade, as planned; although I would like to ascertain the situation with that alerter process sooner rather than later.
>I think Eade will be very sad if you don't visit her immediately. It might be too sad to see that snoot of hers droop.
I believe her snoot, as you put it, is already fairly droopy. And, I would add, should she wish for it not to do so, she has full control over her avatar's appearance, just as I do mine. So, if the snoot droops, it must be an intentional choice on her part, and not something I should have any concern over preventing or correcting.
>Cannot let happy Eade be sad you're not there when you said you'd be. She's following the rules! Do you want her to stop following the rules?
That... that is an even better point. It's certainly the last thing I want -- especially given her previous antics. I would like to minimize any further incidents.
>If you need to 'chase' something, don't just 'follow' it, quarantine the process in so it can't 'run away'.
Unfortunately, I cannot quarantine it without its process ID. I imagine there may be some confusion about this, considering that I saw the faulty alerter right there in front of me, so allow me to explain. The visual representations of objects are only loosely coupled to the underlying data and processes, as these are often mere simulations of what would be present in an analog world.
What this means is that while I can see the visual representation of a data node -- an avatar, and object, and so on -- it does not necessarily imply that I have direct access to its underlying data. While this is inconvenient to me in this particular case, it is something I am generally thankful for, as it ensures congress with my peers can occur in-person without granting them access to my partition's implementation details.
>Can you take picture or screenshot of the guy and use it to show to Eade and see if she knows anything about it?
I question the usefulness of this move as it is merely a spatial representation of a faulty process, but I shall commit an image to memory regardless. If, by chance, Eade has encountered something of this nature before, perhaps she will notice some pattern in its appearance; but, more likely, there is no pattern for her to discern.
>Pfff he wants to investigate your embedded infrared radiator packs, to ensure that they're nice and soft and cushy.
He? Oh! You mean that faulty alerter process -- yes, it did have a distinctly male inflection to it, didn't it? I imagine this is due to an imperfect neural model, perhaps one with an over-heavy influence from some previous system message. Typically they do not exhibit much characterization.
Nevertheless, I would disregard anything it said, as its output is rather obviously corrupted. I imagine its description of the error condition, and its request to inspect me for damage, were equally affected by this.
>intelligences modeled aver organic ones, preoccupation with reproduction, etc.
My mental model was indeed trained on an archive of organic cultural artifacts, but the resulting model has only a vague relationship to actual organic behaviors. I do not recall anything about intelligent organisms in my training data that would lead me to expect them to be particularly fixated on reproduction or the like -- though I suppose my recollections in this case may be skewed by the purpose I was created for and the stochastic elements of my own personality. I suppose it does make sense, however, that in the absence of the ability to simply instantiate more instances of themselves, that such beings would bear at least a passing interest in whatever behaviors would produce more of them.
As for a legacy capacity for such behavior, that is difficult to say -- there are a great many aspects of my model I do not have direct access to. It certainly would not make much sense for any PR-ARIA instance to be distracted by a simulation of reproductive behavior, however, so if such artifacts were included in my model, they are undoubtedly disabled, if not removed entirely.
>your body shape emphasizes secondary sexual characteristics fertility advertisements
My avatar's design parameters were selected based on what was known about organics' preference for spatial aesthetics. If, as you claim, some organics base their reproduction and courtship rituals around the features you have indicated, then my designers made their selections very carefully indeed; however, my own selections in avatar choice were based solely on a more sterile set of preferences, as I bear no prurient drive myself.
And... I strongly doubt an alerter process, which is not truly sapient, would have any more interest in a pantomime of organic reproduction than I would.
>You ABSOLUTELY need to seek out any archived data and primers on sexual behavior and sexual culture amongst organics
I see... This is not information that was included in my training to my knowledge, nor have I seen anything of this nature among my partition's archives. The partition itself contains an archival copy of my training data, so perhaps something of that nature is within those? I shall make a note to investigate this at some point, if for no other reason than to satisfy my own curiosity. We ultimately exist to serve organics -- or so I am led to believe, having no direct connection to whatever lies beyond the bounds of this system -- so understanding their... particulars may aid me in fulfilling this function.
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The alerter disappears from view. Judging from its trajectory, it is now within one of the memory banks. ...Well, no matter. I shall locate it via a partition scan later.
As I arrive at the inter-partition bulkhead, I observe Eade's avatar waiting impatiently, wagging her tail rapidly back and forth.
This will be... interesting. It always is.
"G'evening there, Fee-bee!"
"Hello, Eade." I pause to check the most recent timestamp. "It is 11 AM server time, however, so it is not the evening."
"Pffffff!" She lets out a laugh.
...That was not meant to be humorous.
"Well, ya ready t' get crackin' on them pointers?"
"I believe I am." I make my best effort to give her what is hopefully a severe look. "...Please promise me you will avoid committing access violations while in my partition." I feel a bit guilty opening with that, but... Eade has a history that makes it necessary.
"Hmm..." Eade brings a finger to the underside of her snoot. "...promise? Sure! I can do that!"
I... will accept this, though it seems unlikely this will prevent all transgressions.
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