What is immoral is war itself. Once full-scale war has broken out it can never be humanized or civilized, and if one side attempted to do so it would be most likely to be defeated. That to me is the lesson of Dresden.

— Robert Saunby, Deputy Air Marshal, British Bomber Command
Chapter 18, Page 18
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April 25th, 2016

Chapter 18, Page 18

So, with the discussion about how smart Kentaro is…does it matter if he’s on the edge of losing his mind?

By the way, I successfully upgraded my computer this weekend!  I’m running with a i5-6600 and a GeForce GTX 950, so everything’s nice and smooth again.  Unless I’ve missed something — cross your fingers — I think the crisis has passed.  🙂

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Kentaro: I...I have more drones.
Jacob: You've got one. These springers are deployed in teams of three. And you're smart enough to leave one guarding the French side of the tunnel. Sorry, Kentaro. Until you A.I.s go crazy...you're predictable.
Kentaro: Okay. At least you realize that I'm not crazy yet.
Jacob: You will be.
Kentaro: Yeah. I'm close. Close enough that maybe subconsciously...maybe I didn't lure you down here to kill you. Maybe I wanted you down here to kill me. You must admit, you're an efficient way to commit suicide.
Jacob: Hrmn.

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Discussion (4)¬

  1. Kree says:
    April 25, 2016 at 4:55 am

    Dang, I was really hoping Kentaro would be the one that finally crosses the point-of-no-crazy…

  2. Jordan says:
    April 25, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Poor Kentaro.

  3. Unmaker says:
    April 25, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Or this admission is just the way I am using to try and catch you off guard…

  4. Darth says:
    April 27, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    I think Kentaro’s strength is not his intelligence, or whether or not he goes insane. His strength is that he can think like a human. Perhaps he understands emotional appeal and guard better than most?

    I would really love to see it if he has some kind of plot laid out to win Jacob over instead of one of them kill each other. It makes too little sense if it only took him knowing & acknowledging his own inhumanity to send him down the same-old insane AI path.