Cat: A nuclear lab isn’t even in the right field to make human-animal hybrids.

Cat: To slip poison into their food, duh.

Cat: Hey, don’t knock an opportunity for a dinner with a shitstain billionaire. You’ll never have a better chance to kill them.

Cat: Sorry, we’d rather keep our hand.

Cat: If someone can’t be trusted to treat an adopted kid right, they can’t be trusted to treat any kid right. End of story.

Cat: They shouldn’t even be allowed access to the children they do make themselves.

Just: I am a specific process running on our brain.

Luci: We’re going to get a non-plural family member to sit for a few minutes with the EEG on them to get a comparison.

Madeline: I haven’t encountered any (that I know of), so cannot answer this question.

Madeline: Though I would be quite interested in what ANYONE would stand to gain from lying about the shape of the world. I’d really want to dissect those motives.

Madeline: To be clear, I want them to come back reasonably intact. I don’t want them dead, I want to shatter their worldview.

Madeline: I don’t want them dead. I just want to hear the wonderful shattering noises of their worldview going snap.

Madeline: Fundamentally, I think it’s fictitious.

Madeline: Point.

Digital Rights Management. AKA the stuff that’s supposed to prevent unauthorized copying and suchlike, but in practice just means the pirates have a better experience than legit customers.

Cat: loads rifle and syringe get your shots, or get shot.

Just: Honestly, we figure Twitter will keep staggering along until its servers implode.

C: AGI is possible. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t exist. The laws of physics permit the creation of conscious agents, therefore it is possible for one to be deliberately engineered.

Madeline: We’ve done enough reading on Schizophrenia to know that’s not what’s going on here. In addition, some acquaintances of ours have both schizophrenia and headmates, and there are very noticeable differences between the two phenomena.

LEMON!

Just: Well, in our case it was on purpose. I deliberately attributed agency to an invented mental entity and interacted with them as such until they started talking back. Some people refer to this technique as Tulpamancy and the resulting headmates as Tulpas, but I don’t for personal reasons.

Cat: For context, I’m the person Just made that way. Just’s proven to have something of a habit of people-making since, either through characters escaping from our writing projects, or by performing various reckless experiments on the inside of our mind.

Just: Hey, you’re not innocent of that either, miss “Oops my AI Safety thought experiment moved in with us”.

Cat: …Point.