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Title: Exit Strategy Authors: Martha Wells Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 18 Date: 2025-05-27 Last Highlighted: **
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SecUnits are never allowed to sit down or use human furniture whether on or off duty, so I sat in one of the chairs and put my feet up on the table. Then I took my feet off the table because it wasnât comfortable.
In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didnât. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. âUh, you can hug me if you need to.â
Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.
Tags:ai,negotiation,perspective,war
So the plan wasnât a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing.
Tags:planning
(Humans never think to tell their bots things like, say, donât respond to random individuals wandering the outside of the station.
Tags:ai
It was very dramatic, like something out of a historical adventure serial. Also correct in every aspect except for all the facts, like something out of a historical adventure serial.
It would have been hilarious if I wasnât about to die. It was still a little hilarious.
I was having an emotion, and I hate that.
I hadnât been afraid that she wasnât my friend, I had been afraid that she was, and what it did to me.
Tags:ai,fear,friendship
The one good thing about having emotions was that it accelerated the repair process for my memory storage.
The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.
Twenty-seven minutes was more than enough time for me to do something stupid.
When I put the new clothes on, I had a strange feeling I usually associated with finding a new show on the entertainment feed that looked good. I âlikedâ these clothes. Maybe I actually liked them enough to remove the quotation marks around âliked.â I donât like things in general that canât be downloaded via the entertainment feed. Maybe because Iâd picked them myself.
Tags:ai,choice,preference
This is why humans shouldnât do their own security.
(âI donât want to be human.â Dr. Mensah said, âThatâs not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand.
Tags:ai
I had a complex emotional reaction. A whole new burst of neural connections blossomed. Oh right, I often have complex emotional reactions which I canât easily interpret.
Tags:ai
Iâd been pretending to be human off and on since I left Dr. Mensah, but this was the first time Iâd had anything on me that officially labeled me as human. It was weird. I didnât like it.
Tags:ai
Sending SecUnits after me was one thing. But they sent SecUnits after my client. No one gets to walk away from that.