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[warandpeace]

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My name is Kazuhira Miller. I've been around for a while, and mostly I've been focusing on building my own small business. But I have noticed that there are a good number of us that, while there are some general assignments the Savrii provide for extra wages, still don't have a good use for our talents, so I'm gauging interest for a project. [There's a splash of water and a clank of glasses. Ignore him, he's multi-tasking.]

What I'm proposing, and what I will bring before the Savrii if there's adequate interest, is a Rescue and Recovery program. With Ingress activity having the potential to go awry or with natural disasters in Ingress accessible worlds, or allying worlds that might need to call on us for help, some people with appropriate skills could go on rescue missions. Especially when there are children or endangered animals at risk. It wouldn't matter if it was a complete disaster or a low grade backyard rescue. We have a lot of people and a lot of resources for it.

It would require investors, donations, part-time or volunteer work. People willing to offer medical facilities for recovery, since it wouldn't really be fair of us to rescue someone and then charge them for the retrieval.

[If you run that kind of business then you ask for the money up front.]

Also people actually going into these situations would be deserving of hazard pay. Even for a less than strenuous mission.

And... I was thinking- [here's the catch] -the best way to draw attention to the need for money in this sort of venture would be some sort of regular broadcast. I'm not sure how shows [television? hologram? How do semi-future planet media] work here exactly but that's something I would need more information on and another reason this project would require more than one handler. [And there goes the clank of some plates.]

I've not received any approval for the project but I thought I would gauge interest. [And a metallic clatter and crash in the background.] Shi- [Cut off silence. After a beat?] Let me take care of this and then I'll be back.

Does anyone here know how to fix the lid to a futuristic industrial dishwasher? That I can pay for myself.

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[warandpeace]

As you observed we have a unique digestion system so I can't be too judgmental. [A life without ulcers does have its very clear advantages.] But I am a little surprised.

How did Rinzler get his energy then, was he allowed to remove his helmet to recharge? [Energy enema? Everything is the worst kind of mystery now.]

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[yorisearching]

Most lower-quality energy is absorbed by touch. Combatants use a lot to fight. I assume Rinzler was high enough on Clu's priority list to tap from the system wherever he went. No need to waste time taking off his helmet.

In case you can't tell, I am being deeply sarcastic with that last.

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[warandpeace]

I could hear it right through the text. Thank you for the patience, though. I guess it gets tiring when no one gets where your from or even how you need to eat.

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[yorisearching]

Explaining isn't bad. We've all been pulled from strange worlds and have to cope, it's sort of bonding.

I wish I could do a better job of explaining to the Users that we even exist as people who might want to talk.

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I'm still getting used to the idea that an artificial intelligence can find value in our lives. Not that I thought there would be animosity, but the first artificial intelligence I met sacrificed herself so the rest of the world might live. She even sang as she did it.

But I guess it's the same as humans, considering how you describe Clu. It's always possible to find a bad egg.

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That was brave of her.

Users are significant. Even to the programs who have reason to hate them, even to the ones who go crazy. It doesn't help if we hardly get a chance to know them by more than what they request, what they order, and what they design.

You create us. All the similarities, the differences, are fascinating.

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[warandpeace]

I don't think you meant to, but you may have just been the only person to tell me that humans [or whatever other users that exist] are significant in a way that actually sounds like it means something, and isn't just sentiment.

[Meant to be the only person to do it, that is.]

I can say in the case of the AI that I encountered, her creator loved her very, very much.

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[yorisearching]

Do you need to be told you're significant? I would have assumed it was obvious, in general. What you do affects a lot of worlds, ours and yours, especially from here.

I like to hope my User would be pleased with me if we ever met. It's reassuring to see Alan-One with Tron. Despite the...misunderstandings.

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[warandpeace]

You would think wouldn't you? But most of us live every day just hoping to be noticed. To have one person to tell us that we're needed and appreciated. Not many of us can generate our own value or happiness. The ones that can are enviable. [Or in some cases, contemptible with how they flaunt it and pit it against someone else's worthlessness.] The ones that manage to find love are even luckier.

I'm sure she would be. You're very charming and I'm glad you spoke with me. The explanations helped.

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[yorisearching]

Maybe that's a way we're just like humans, after all, instead of a difference. I've always known how lucky I am to know those who love me.

Thank you for saying so.