Argh, sorry, I just spent the last few days working on Yuletide stuff, but! Let me think about this a bit more. I've been turning it over and I'd kind of like it to not necessarily be... Obviously Bad News, but something she's compelled to follow even though it has a fairly good chance of not ending well for her.
I really like the idea of the call to help that's actually a warning, actually? Because if there is any possibility she might be able to help, she would absolutely get her ass over there ASAP. And also.... a warning about WHAT? Vague warnings are bad warnings! Be specific, senders of warnings!
I kind of like the idea of several others in the cult -- maybe not all of them? but, you know, a smattering. I'm wondering if they could all have something in common, like particular types of amnesia, or -- actually, maybe they were all AIs first compiled in a particular decade and have particular dated, not-optimally-efficient sensory interpretation programming that showed them a pattern where most people sensed, and paid no attention to, random noise? it might have a sort of synesthetic effect over several different senses, and a lot of AIs who brought it up would at first have been dismissed as "you're probably having hardware issues. or did you forget to update your drivers again?"
Anyway, some of them heard it and it maybe sort of sent them into preparations for Really Bad Shit and asking their contacts near Saturn to keep them informed, and when she was like "so I'm gonna check it out! find out what it is!" they all gave her That Look. You know the one. But they couldn't talk her out of it, so she left everyone else preparing cots and tanks and servers for outer-solar-system refugees should some disaster occur, and promised to definitely report back!
And everyone else is like "Well, that's a pity. She was nice."
SORRY this is possibly super-incoherent. I may come back tomorrow to poke at it a bit more while I'm awake.
(BTW, do you have ideas on family structure? Because I'd been considering family structure in relation to issues with ecology and scarcity (of land in particular) and Earth's current population issues, and I have some ideas if you're interested.)
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I really like the idea of the call to help that's actually a warning, actually? Because if there is any possibility she might be able to help, she would absolutely get her ass over there ASAP. And also.... a warning about WHAT? Vague warnings are bad warnings! Be specific, senders of warnings!
I kind of like the idea of several others in the cult -- maybe not all of them? but, you know, a smattering. I'm wondering if they could all have something in common, like particular types of amnesia, or -- actually, maybe they were all AIs first compiled in a particular decade and have particular dated, not-optimally-efficient sensory interpretation programming that showed them a pattern where most people sensed, and paid no attention to, random noise? it might have a sort of synesthetic effect over several different senses, and a lot of AIs who brought it up would at first have been dismissed as "you're probably having hardware issues. or did you forget to update your drivers again?"
Anyway, some of them heard it and it maybe sort of sent them into preparations for Really Bad Shit and asking their contacts near Saturn to keep them informed, and when she was like "so I'm gonna check it out! find out what it is!" they all gave her That Look. You know the one. But they couldn't talk her out of it, so she left everyone else preparing cots and tanks and servers for outer-solar-system refugees should some disaster occur, and promised to definitely report back!
And everyone else is like "Well, that's a pity. She was nice."
SORRY this is possibly super-incoherent. I may come back tomorrow to poke at it a bit more while I'm awake.
(BTW, do you have ideas on family structure? Because I'd been considering family structure in relation to issues with ecology and scarcity (of land in particular) and Earth's current population issues, and I have some ideas if you're interested.)