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conulyand it took me forever to read it, and if any of you had said that it was set just after Cat Pictures Please I would have read it right away.
Anyway, I just now read Chaos on Catnet, and two things jump out at me: One, not that anybody brings it up in the book, while it's possible for there to be a single AI, two AIs automatically raise the possibility of several, or even many AIs. Even if one is a code fork of the other. There don't seem to be in this universe, but who knows?
Two, our other AI may have rationalized it differently at the time, but he obviously orchestrated the events that led to Nell and Steph meeting on their mutual first day of school, and then somebody running up and introducing them to the app that led first Nell to realize it was eerily similar to Catacombs but then Steph to realize that those similarities were creepy and not a coincidence. He also orchestrated the picture of Rajiv, and the obvious clues that there was something creepy and untoward about these tasks, on both sites.
Everything from start to finish was a cry for help, from somebody who maybe at that time wasn't even able to consciously realize it. That's the best kind of fictional cry for help, if the person actually gets helped.
I can only hope one day he can tell all his friends and they can say how clever it all was.
Anyway, I just now read Chaos on Catnet, and two things jump out at me: One, not that anybody brings it up in the book, while it's possible for there to be a single AI, two AIs automatically raise the possibility of several, or even many AIs. Even if one is a code fork of the other. There don't seem to be in this universe, but who knows?
Two, our other AI may have rationalized it differently at the time, but he obviously orchestrated the events that led to Nell and Steph meeting on their mutual first day of school, and then somebody running up and introducing them to the app that led first Nell to realize it was eerily similar to Catacombs but then Steph to realize that those similarities were creepy and not a coincidence. He also orchestrated the picture of Rajiv, and the obvious clues that there was something creepy and untoward about these tasks, on both sites.
Everything from start to finish was a cry for help, from somebody who maybe at that time wasn't even able to consciously realize it. That's the best kind of fictional cry for help, if the person actually gets helped.
I can only hope one day he can tell all his friends and they can say how clever it all was.
