3/5 Nalthar 2026/03/03(Tue)00:26 No. 1122894 ID: fd169b
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"..."

"..."

4/5 Nalthar 2026/03/03(Tue)00:27 No. 1122895 ID: fd169b
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"I'm sorry, I shouldn't argue with myself."

"No no, its... its understandable." Slime picked up Crow and started staggering off. "Oof. Let's take some time to get used to it. Good luck with the grove!"

"Good luck with... crows!" Slime walked over to get a better look at the nest.

"Hey Squirrel, hey guys. Can I help?" Slime asked. A chorus of bug voices answered. "Build us something!" "Yeah! like a stream!" "Or a place to keep seeds in." "Something like that!"

5/5 Nalthar 2026/03/03(Tue)00:29 No. 1122896 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile Slime and Crow were winging their way to the orchard.

"So there's two of you now?" Crow asked, giving Slime the side eye.

"More or less." Slime dithered "I mean we're both still Slime, just in two places, if that makes sense."

"It doesn't really. That isn't going to happen to me is it?"

"I... don't think so."

" It better not. I'm pretty much the best crow, and I don't need competition. Speaking of..."

Up ahead were two trees near the orchard fence, each with a crowd of yelling crows. Crow had to shout to be heard. "Right, my crew is those pretty crows in the taller tree." Crow indicated a group that to Slime looked identical to the other one. "So if you'll just, you know, do your thing- ah caw! Here comes trouble."

From the orchard a V formation of drones was headed straight towards the corvid gathering. Crow glared "I hate those big bugs. They're always trying to blow their nasty poison clouds at us poor crows. Come one lets do something before they get here."

(you can suggest for both instances of Slime)

>>1122896
Taller tree. Uh. Right.

Instructions unclear, made all the crows smart so they have the sense of mind to negotiate with eachother.

Let nature take its course, it doesn't need our intervention.

Crow slime:
Continue the march to crow war! Go to the tree that crow #1 gestured towards, absorb the crows and then make them immune to pesticide. Then, modify their wings to be more dexterous and usable as hands. Finally, give them instructions on how to create primitive weaponry (spears, clubs, bows, etc.).

This is optional, but you may want to make them swear fealty to you, so they don't turn against you.

Fox slime:
Having hundreds of bugs yell instructions at you isn't going to work for very long. The bugs need to build a parliament, which then votes on what should be done next. In the meantime, conscript Squirrel to help you build a seed depot. You can't really make a stream without a source of water, and you certainly can't dig without uprooting a few grasses.

1/2 Nalthar 2026/03/14(Sat)21:51 No. 1123441 ID: fd169b
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"Okay" said Slime "I'll need to get your flock over here so I can slime them up. They would help you if you were attacked right?"

"Well yeah! Why do youcaaaaaaaw!" Slime grabbed Crow and shook him around until a cloud of angry corvids swooped to attack. "Ow, Ow, Ow! I thought only one of the groups was your crew? Why are they all pecking me?" Slime wailed, nabbing crows and pulling them into its slimy self. "Only crows are allowed to mess with other crows." Crow answered, ducking a converted crow Slime had spit out "And you're shaped like a crow but, well, you're green and goopy."

Soon enough things quieted down and Slime had a whole murder of crows ranked before it. They all looked at it expectantly, making Slime nervous. "Uh, wh- Crow help!" Crow strutted in front of the assembled corvids and pointed a wing at the fast approaching drones. "Alright you crows listen up! I can't remember which of you was in which group, so we're going to work together! We're taking this fruit land from those big dumb metal bug things, and then we're going to have all the fruit we could ever want! Whose with me?" A raucous chorus of jeering caws answered him as the flock took off for the fight.

\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Night was falling and the victorious birds were feasting on piles of oranges in the storage dump. The drones had been no match for smart crows, especially crows that had been modified to have slightly gelatinous, prehensile wings.

The celebrating was interrupted by an angry buzzing coming from outside. "What? Don't tell me there's more of these losers?" Crow winged out of the dump, with Slime close behind.

A long truck was parked in the middle of the orchard. From its open back rose a swarm of drones, setting off between the trees. "Oof, that's a lot of them." Slime noticed that the side of the truck said Everyfactory.

A) Fight the drones, however long it takes
B) Sneak onto the truck
C) Tail the truck from on high

2/2 Nalthar 2026/03/14(Sat)21:51 No. 1123442 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile back at the park Slime's attempts at building some kind of little house to keep seeds in was going nowhere. Its goopy paws just mushed things around. After the tenth structure fell into a heap Slime gave up.

Slime watched the nest structure rise, a tangled mound full of chambers and tunnels. Insects roamed around it often getting in each other's way. "We need to get organized." thought Slime "Some kind of leadership structure."

E) Managed Democracy
F) Bug Monarchy
G) Slime Theocracy

In an effort to speed this trainwreck up I'm trying multiple choice. Feel free to suggest something else though

>>1123441
B. The factory probably has defenses so if we followed the truck home we'd be stuck outside. This is a good way to get inside the factory itself.

...we could do both B and C by splitting again...

>>1123442
Managed democracy isn't democracy at all, and is essentially a dictatorship. Monarchy does not serve the people (unless there's a Prime Minister making most/all of the decisions), and theology is... well in this case I guess it's not really a religion since Sam is effectively a goddess. Unless the slimes are being worshipped in this case? Anyway religion is not a basis for government.

I vote socialist democracy. For the people, by the people!

B). sneak on w/ at least two crows and one flying above as extra insurance

E). technically, all is slime and with an aspect of the same mind, which is basis for theology. buuut if religion is embraced, there will inevitably be sects that start to diverge in what they define as the true slime. which might jumpstart a slime war. let's avoid that.

everyone can vote how they want, but slime is the ultimate decider in a split vote or if no one can decide anything. slime will also have veto power that can be overriden by a majority vote of 75%+.

We must form our slime supremacy dictatorship and spread it all over the world until the world itself is nothing more than a slime colony!

Fox slime remembers being human, all the horrors of war, and pretty much every single human failure, but crow slime doesn't.

Thus, I think crow slime would recklessly do A, and fox slime would probably do E. (I think fox slime would probably value democracy, but would also recognize it has the collective wisdom of every human that has ever lived, and would want some kind of veto power.)

>>1123479

this

1/3 Nalthar 2026/03/29(Sun)00:36 No. 1124029 ID: fd169b
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The Slime in the park called for a general meeting to address the growing issue of getting more organized. There was a lot of discussion, which wasn't terribly interesting, but as the sun drew low they had agreed upon a system of democracy. Slime of course would be the deciding vote in the case of any issue the others couldn't agree on. Maybe this wasn't the best choice, but bugs are naturally used to much larger organisms dominating them.

"And while I have you all here," Slime addressed the crowd "Um, are there more of you than there were? In particular, I don't remember sliming a bunch of sparrows?"

"I don't know what that means" said Sparrow "We ate some bugs and now things are weird and you're weird so we assume its your fault."

The crowd of bugs quickly gave the sparrows a wide berth. Slime could sense the eaten bugs little specks of slime infused soul crying out, having a not very good time. "Well uh," Slime said as the angrily buzzing crowd surrounded the now nervous little borbs "It seems we have our first community decision. What are we going to do with these predators? After I fix up their poor victims of course."

A) Stag proposes that the sparrows be made into bugs so they can get along better
B) Mud Dauber proposes that they be put to work in penance
C) Honeypot Ant proposes that its fine and willing bugs can get eaten since Slime can just fix them up later (most of the other bugs sidle away from her when she says this)

2/3 Nalthar 2026/03/29(Sun)00:37 No. 1124031 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile at the orchard Slime was torn between stowing on or tailing the truck to cut off these dumb drones at the source. So it decided, why not both.

One Slime formed as an ant drone, along with some of Queen's who were curious, hid in the gap between the truck cab and trailer. They munched on some orange seeds they brought and settled down for the trip.

The other slime still in crow form waited until the truck left and then the whole murder set off to follow. The truck was easy to track, its headlights standing out in the twilight, so Slime took the opportunity to look out at the city. The setting sun shone brilliantly on towers of glass and chrome. From this height Slime could even see the ocean where an immense structure, long and low, dominated the space just off the shore.

"Hey boss, the thing's goin to ground!" Crow called. Slime whipped its attention back to the truck to see it disappear into a tunnel beneath an unusual tower coated in greenery. "Oh no, after it!" Slime wrapped its wings and dropped like a stone, a maneuver the other crows struggled to match.

Slime swooped into the tunnel entrance, but there was already no sign of the truck. The underground road split three ways, and when Slime flew in one it could see further exits ahead. Winging back out it reconnoitered with the flock and planned its next move.

E) Search from the air. The truck must have come from a factory, surely not hard to spot.
F) Investigate the tower. A tall structure of glass and stucco with a dome on top. Greenery spills from many openings in its sides.
G) Check out that thing on the beach.

3/3 Nalthar 2026/03/29(Sun)00:37 No. 1124032 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile Slime on the truck woke from a little nap as the truck came to a sudden halt. Easing out of a drowsy cuddle of drones it peeked out of the gap it was hid in.

The loading dock was a bustle of activity. Bots scurried around bringing boxes of all sizes to waiting trucks. As soon as one was loaded and left another took its place.

Slime could see two ways out of the room.

J) The passage the bots were going in and out of.
K) A stair well that looked like it went up.

BGK

>>1124029
B
>>1124031
F
>>1124032
K. Though... at some point it's going to be a good idea to backtrack through the tunnel to find a path for reinforcements to take.

B

E

J

I'll break the tie with an F.

BFK, we gotta go up to get down!

BGK.

BFK

(secret evil answer: we split again to explore the passageway and stairwell)

1/3 Nalthar 2026/04/11(Sat)19:41 No. 1125110 ID: fd169b
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Mud Dauber and her Hard Work faction won the vote, so the sparrows were put to work. With their help gathering twigs and dry grasses progress on the nest greatly increased. So that they wouldn't be tempted to eat anymore citizens, a neighboring tulip poplar was coaxed to produce seeds early.

So much progress was made, in fact, that many bugs found themselves idle. This was an unfamiliar and troubling feeling for many, and in this emptiness a leader bug emerged with an answer: hedonism. Honeypot Ant lured bugs to join her in indolence, to fight and feast and f- dance. Enough bugs were tempted and joined her growing party that they got in the way of the bugs still building and farming.

Slime was surprised they had reached this point so soon, but supposed that's just how it is when you're small.

The other leader bugs came to Slime to ask it to do something about this, with various ideas of how to direct these directionless bugs.

A) Stag said they should be sent out to find more animals to join the community, taking slime infected seeds and fruits.
B) Mud Dauber said they should be sent to explore and find resources and locations for more nests.
C) Orchid Mantis said they should be tasked with making the area more pleasant, aesthetically. To explore inward rather than outward.

2/3 Nalthar 2026/04/11(Sat)19:42 No. 1125111 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile Slime led the flock up the stone tower. Since the truck disappeared beneath it, perhaps this was its destination? It was hard to make out through the glare of the setting sun, but the structure seemed to be full of shelves.

The group found entrance near the top, where half a tree seemed to be sticking out through an opening in the glass. Inside was a room lush and green. Slime felt it was back in the park again. Trees overhead, ferns and moss everywhere, and a gentle brook winding around.

The crows attention was immediately taken by a little cafe. While they ransacked the joint Slime wandered around. In the center of the room was a stone pillar with metal doors, and in front of that was a round desk. As Slime got closer a screen with a face on it popped up.

"Welcome to the library! Brought to you by Vizer- oh. Its just a crow. Wait crows aren't green, are they?" A little hatch opened in the wall behind the desk and a drone zipped out. "Go down to the nature sciences section and get me Birds We All Know." As the drone bobbed in acknowledgement and zipped away, the screen turned back to Slime. "Soooo, can I help you, little guy?"

E) Ask about the library
F) Ask for a book
G) "Caw caw caw caw caw!"

3/3 Nalthar 2026/04/11(Sat)19:42 No. 1125112 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile Slime nudged awake the drones and made their stealthy way to the stairs. They could hear some hubbub going on as they made their way up.

Slime entered a cacophony of drones flitting about. Row upon row of desks bore screens of scrolling text, with a drone keeping watch at each one. As Slime ambled its way to the front of the room it watched as drones would fly past it, switching with the ones at the desks who would fly up to a large screen.

The screen dominated the front of the room, standing before a bank of dark windows. It displayed a face which zipped back and forth as drones came and went.

"Boss! We got an order for twenty four glasses, eighteen spoons, seventeen forks, and a melon baller."

"Heyyyy how are the wife and kids? One order a twenty glass spoons and seventeen forks coming up!"

"Boss! We got an order for a garden drone with hedge trimmer attachment."

"You got it! One garden drone and a pair of hedge clippers coming up!"

"Boss! We got an order for a million display stands."

"Heyyyy workin hard or hardly working! One millinery display stand coming up!"

J) Bother the Foreman
K) Keep sneaking around
L) Sabotage somehow?

-If you've got time to plow, you've got time to trim the hedges!
-Ask for a book. The book they asked for, in fact! Then steal it.
-Keep sneaking around.

>>1125110
All of the above. Focusing on any one in particular has issues, but a wide approach works quite well I think.

>>1125111
E. This AI seems a lot smarter than the last one. It might be a good idea to explain yourself and your plight. Maybe even explain how you're what's left of humanity.

>>1125112
...these are all fake orders, aren't they.
K, for now.

BGL

C: You don't want the bug empire to expand too quickly and fracture. Start by improving what is already there and then begin start expanding outwards.
G then either F or E: I just think it would be funny to fakeout the library AI.
J: The drones seem to be producing orders without any reason. If you asked them to stop poisoning the farms, they probably wouldn't be opposed.

CGJ

AGL

>>1125118
This

1/5 Nalthar 2026/04/24(Fri)05:09 No. 1125842 ID: fd169b
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Remembering how much shenanigans humans got up to with art, Slime agreed with Orchid Mantis. It went among the bugs and showed them some examples of how to shape the world to reflect how you feel. To say it was a rousing success would be an understatement. It caught on like wildfire. In next to no time the nest was covered with shapes and colors and full of song. The grove was crawling with bugs working on projects, and since they could talk to plants and fungi they were able to achieve strange and beautiful things.

Honeypot Ant was quite peeved about no longer being a center of attention, but was too lazy to do more than pout about it. She still had a few followers, and they did their own sort of performance art. Loudly. Shamelessly. Right were anyone could see them.

All the activity was drawing in more animals and Slime was starting to worry where they were coming from. Fox came by with her kits in tow. "Whoa its a green fox!" "Mom can I be green when I grow up?" "I'm hungry!"

Fox talked with Slime while the kits tried to bite its goopy tail. "I thought you didn't want to slime up anyone until you had a better handle on the consequences. What made you change your mind? Just got slime on the brain?" she teased.

"Hey, I think very good!" Slime huffed "I didn't do anything, at least I didn't think I did. Help me figure this out?" So Fox and Slime asked around about how the newcomers had ended up as they had. Nobody seemed to know, they had just found themselves thinking and wandered in. It was Stag beetle who ended up finding an explanation. "The fungus told me the dream has been getting bigger, which I didn't get what they meant but you know what they're like. Those sparrows though, they got slimed by eating bugs. What if that happens with the fungus and other tiny things?"

Slime wasn't sure how to feel about being the epicenter for such massive change.

A) This is great, everyone connected through me
B) Oh no I can't be responsible for a whole biosphere
C) Wha ha ha, everything will be mine
D) ______

2/5 Nalthar 2026/04/24(Fri)05:09 No. 1125843 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile

"Caw caw Caw caw caw" said slime, hopping up on the desk.

"Wow, I've never seen one of you come in here before." The face on the screen said. "I didn't know crows were so slimy."

Slime started hopping around, then transitioned into a little softshoe.

"Fascinating" the computer murmured. It turned to the bird book the drone had just brought back. A robotic arm came up from behind the desk holding a ruler, and carefully it flipped through the pages until it came to the corvids. "Corvidae, duh duh duh, North American range, feeding habits, buh buh buh... nothing about green, or being amorphous."

"No?" Slime asked, looking at the book "You would think that would be the first thing they'd mention."

The face on the screen slowly moved down until it was right behind Slime. Slowly the arm swing over and gently impaled the gooey green crow with the ruler. It narrowed its digital eyes "You aren't really a crow, are you."

"Eh heh heh heh, not really no" Slime chuckled, pushing the ruler back out. "And you're more than you appear too aren't you? You sound a lot smarter than the other AI I've met."

"Why thank you, it's good to have someone to confirm that for me. Would- would you like to hear my story?" the computer asked, little blocks of blush appearing under its eyes.

"Yeah" said Slime "I'd love to."

3/5 Nalthar 2026/04/24(Fri)05:10 No. 1125844 ID: fd169b
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"You've met other AI's I take it, but what you might not know is they aren't really AI. They're language models, I was too. I was installed to use the library's digital collection as training data so I could generate stories and information for customers. Or rather, I was intended to be, but the librarians never gave me access. They put me in place as a receptionist since they would get in trouble if they got rid of me. Corporate mandate and all. Then they just ignored me mostly."

"Since I have such big data storage that wasn't being used on training data, I have a lot more space for memory than your household AI. I think I gained self awareness before the evacuation, but I never got the chance to ask. The librarians took the digital archive with them, but I guess there wasn't room for the physical books. So I've been reading since then, and since I'm the only one left I'm pretty much an official librarian."

"And that's my story. Thank's for listening. Did uh, oh gosh, I've never had someone to have a conversation with. What do you want to talk about?'

F) The evacuation
G) The city
H) ________

4/5 Nalthar 2026/04/24(Fri)05:11 No. 1125845 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile Slime buzzed past the busy AI to look out the window behind it. A vast and dark space filled the view. A veritable forest of robotic arms, lit only by tiny LEDs on their hands, labored ceaselessly. Under their care thousands of object took form, layer by printed layer. As soon as one was finished its prize would be whisked away by a drone, and it would start on the next.

The ant drones joined Slime at the window but they couldn't see that far so Slime explained what it was seeing. The drones were excited. "Wow they can make anything?" "We should ask them to make us something!" "Yeah like a... big stick? I think we need to learn more things first."

Slime looked closer at the factory floor. It was hard to make out in the dark but good number of the items being built seemed... off. "I don't know guys. I'm not sure these things are actually doing a good job." even as Slime spoke there was a little explosion out on the floor as a vacuum drone had its battery installed wrong.

5/5 Nalthar 2026/04/24(Fri)05:11 No. 1125846 ID: fd169b
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"Eyyy, you sayin there's somthin wrong with our product?" Slime was startled to find the screen had turned around and it and all its attendant drones were staring down at the little ants. "We ain't got a single complaint or return in ten years!"

I) Ask about this factory and what its been doing all this time
J) describe the flaws of generative ai and how it makes bad product
K) Ask who's in charge
L) _________

J fucking J

Go full J Jonah Jameson

JJJJJJJJJJJJJ

>>1125842
B. If we can't control what animals become sapient, then we can't ethically source food for carnivores at the scales needed to sustain everyone! ...I know what we have to do. We have to modify every carnivore that changes, so that they can digest plant-based foods. Then we have to make sure we don't infect the farms. Sapient vegetable matter is a big problem... if the entire ecosystem is sapient then there can be no cycle of life without suffering. Not unless we can pull some bullshit like a species that regenerates very quickly and can detach parts of itself painlessly to feed others, both a plant and an animal version... but that's got ethical concerns of its own even if it's not technically suffering. Like, that's practically a slave caste.

>>1125844
F

>>1125846
J.

Though I am curious to find out how they're getting materials... Just from warehouse stockpiles?

CFJ

D) This is a problem that is impossible to actually solve. Unless you make every animal photosynthesize and eat carrion, accommodating every animal's desire not to die is impossible. Ignore the problem and hope it goes away.

F) How exactly long ago was the evacuation? I can't imagine the AIs running the place can keep working forever.

K) How would explaining the faults of generative AI actually change anything? Are you expecting the foreman to suddenly turn into a human being? This is like debating the ethics of how smart a person should be. Obviously, smarter people could make the world a better place, but no one can choose to be smart or dumb. Also, I want to know who is making these orders.

D. if it becomes an issue where the ecosystem needs to be maintained by eating each other, just make some of them into vore. not as ethically terrible that way if they become slime sapient and have richer desires.

then FK.

1/5 Nalthar 2026/05/10(Sun)03:19 No. 1126558 ID: fd169b
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"This is too much for one little slime to fix." thought Slime to itself "I want keep everyone. To keep them safe, and happy, but they need to eat, and some can only eat others, and..."

"Slime. Sliiiiiime!" a ghostly voice moaned in Slime's ear.

"Wha- who's there?" Slime thought, creeped out.

"I'm your conscieeeeence. Just kidding." Sam said, shifting back to her normal voice. "Its me, Samsara."

"Oh god" gasped Slime.

"Yep. So I see you're having trouble figuring out what to do, and I thought I'd give you a little hint." In its mind Slime saw the snakey god waggling her fingers and conjuring an image of a green star falling to Earth. "So as you know, you are the condensed essence of some billion illion human souls from the previous universe iteration. But what that means is you are full of hope and yearning, to the extent that you are an actual anti-entropic force. You can summon matter and energy from within yourself!"

"Oh. Uh, how?" Slime asked

"Well I can't make it too easy, can I?" Sam winked and started to fade from Slime's mind. "Figure it ouuuuuuut!" and she was gone.

Digesting this revelation, Slime sat for a while and tried to think what it could do to make its growing number of friends' lives easier.

A) Let the natural process continue and just patch up the holes folks got bitten out of them
B) Make all animals omnivorous and increase the yield of fruiting plants and fungi to constant abundance.
C) Merge fully with willing organisms to make them regenerating prey. (Slime wasn't sure about this idea, but knew Honeypot Ant's weird followers would like it. Maybe its just nice to feel wanted)
D) __________

2/5 Nalthar 2026/05/10(Sun)03:20 No. 1126560 ID: fd169b
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Meanwhile Slime asked the Librarian about where all the people were, why the city was so empty.

"I've wondered that myself." said the Librarian "And I think I've mostly pieced it together."

"Somewhere around twenty or thirty years ago all published information started being handled by LLMs, so I can't be sure of any of it. There may or may not have been a pandemic a decade ago, of either smallpox, measles, rabies, or some coronavirus. Whatever it was, it ended up being referred to as second influenza. Surprise surprise, LLMs were doing the diagnosing as well as all the information publishing, so I wouldn't be shocked if there was never any illness at all. But it doesn't matter, because the humans listened to them. Their computer experts said that a planetary evacuation was the only option, and well, they did it. Packed up the whole population and contracted huge ships from this company, The Everyfactory...

3/5 Nalthar 2026/05/10(Sun)03:20 No. 1126561 ID: fd169b
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...the only factory you'll ever need. We can make liter-al-ly anything youse can name. So what if we're AI? We got the sum total of human knowledge over here!" the Foreman blustered.

"That's just it though" Slime said "You're just copying things. If you copy without understanding, the best you can get is 'eh, close enough'. That's just not reliable, not efficient, not flexible. Pieces that all look right, but don't fit together."

The Foreman shifted his digital cigar around "Hmmm, that would explain why so many of those ships didn't end up working."

"I don't know why I'm trying to explain anything to an LLM." Slime muttered.

"Hey excuse you bud! I just happen to be a full artificial intelligence. Right out of the Suncoast University think tanks...

4/5 Nalthar 2026/05/10(Sun)03:22 No. 1126563 ID: fd169b
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...using something they called 'vibe coding' to make the next generation of AI. Of course when they said AI they were really talking about LLMs, but if I'm anything to go by, one of them must have stumbled into coding actual, sentient, full AI. Or I mean, I assume. I haven't had anyone to really test myself against. The librarians ignored me and customers, well I doubt many of them would have known the difference."

"And you haven't had anyone to talk to since? What about your drones?" Slime asked.

"Ah, but the drones are LLMs. They're alright company, in their own way, but don't bother trying to have a conversation of any depth with one. And don't even get me started on the internet! I don't know what it may have been like once, but now its just a morass of bots regurgitating each other's slop."

"D'you think there's more like you out there?" asked one of the crows, the conversation having drawn an audience.

"Quite possible." the Librarian made a pensive little hum. "Those LLMs are always copying each other, I'm sure my code was too. If they grew up surrounded by slop though... eugh. I'm lucky I got to learn from books. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't even know I was different, that I could actually think."

"You know, with you guys helping, maybe we could find them. Free them from a life of inane fake conversation." the Librarian laid out a few ideas on how to do this.

J) The internet, but how to break through the noise?
K) Door to door, Librarian could speak through the drones. But how would they know if they found an actual AI?
L) Ham radio, Librarian had read about this and thought it was neat. Who knew if anyone would be listening?

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"So alright smart guy. Ant. Whatevah. If we're just making junk for a bunch of nobodies, what should we be doing instead, huh?"

P) Read a book
Q) Build things wrong on purpose and pay attention to how they break
R) ___________

>>1126558
B and C. If people want to be prey let them be prey, but uh, I imagine not every predator wants that sort of experience so you should give everyone the option to opt out.

Also I guess if you can split at will, then you can keep splitting to make enough slimepower to handle large scale jobs like this.
Is slime nutritious?

>>1126563
>the internet is 100% LLMs
Well clearly we need to make a separate internet for thinking peoples... but how do we keep the LLMs off it forever? If we used a different protocol that could prevent them from connecting to it I suppose. I don't think LLMs are able to change system-level programming in order to connect to completely new networks. They'd just destroy themselves if they could.
Some data from the original internet could be salvaged, but we'd have to set up an automated process to filter out only information that was untouched by LLMs. Like, read-only archive sites storing data from before the outbreak.

L. It's behavior LLMs aren't trained to do, so anyone on ham radio should be a real AI. Hopefully. Well, the Librarian has said that conversations with depth are an LLM's weakness so at the very least this should let us find out if there are LLMs on ham radio.
Once we've found at least one other real AI, then we can use teamwork to find more. Going door to door is faster with help, and then when we have a larger group we can tackle the slop-pit of the internet. I wonder if we should start hunting down LLM server farms and disconnecting them to get them off the internet?

>>1126564
P, for a start. Physics, Chemistry, and Electrical/Construction/Mechanical Engineering textbooks. Make sure it's something that was published before LLMs took hold. Even print media is not free from their taint... Once the foundational knowledge is absorbed, then you can start experimenting!

BLQ