Club Fair, Gym, Friday Afternoon

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Jackson got to the gym early. He took his mission of establishing a sports team in Fandom pretty seriously, see. That involved making something of an effort, and showing up early to check out the competition (yes, he viewed the other clubs as competition, deal with it) was the least he could do.

He grabbed a copy of the club schedule for himself before he went to set up his table.

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Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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Liara shrugged helplessly. "I do not know," she admitted. "I have never run a club before."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"I think as long as we get to do something cool and nobody gets hurt, we'll all be happy?" Victor offered. "Besides. You have Topher and Evan to help. And, um" -- he glanced to the information sheets --- "... GLaDOS is advising this?"

He sounded as though he was not entirely confident in the gym teacher's abilities.

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"Yes," Liara said. "I was... dubious about that myself."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"Like, it's not even that what she does in gym class is that weird?" Victor said, scratching along his jaw. "It's just fancy running and jumping. But the way she talks bugs me. Like she kind of hopes this is the week somebody's going to die."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"Whoever programmed her must have had a human sense of humor," Liara opined. "I have never heard a VI sound that cruel."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"I have, but he was on a kill-everybody, take-over-the-world, kind of trip," Victor said, thinking of Ultron. "And he wasn't supposed to be that way, anyhow. If she was programmed on purpose, she's special."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"You think she gained sentience?"

There was mild caution in Liara's voice, but no more than that. The geth had disappeared well before her time; she knew the warnings only intellectually.

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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Victor hesitated before answering. "I haven't seen enough to tell me either way," he said. "If she did, she's a sadist or close to it. If she didn't, whoever programmed her has -- what you said, a weird sense of humor."

He was aware this would probably be a reasonable time to say you know I'm technically an AI, right?, but somehow the context struck him as ... not the best.

"If she's sentient, being trapped without a body would have to make her nuts."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"Perhaps," Liara said dubiously. "If she was programmed to think from within the confines of a body. Not that I am at all an expert on artificial intelligences - not in the least because they are illegal."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"Yeah, funny story about that," Victor said on the general subject of AIs, half under his breath. "If she's sentient, she has to know what she's missing. Maybe she makes up for it by having a lot of information uploaded, but ... I dunno. I think you'd feel left out, not being able to move or touch or taste anything. But it's not like I've talked to her about it."

Re: Talk to the Representatives – SCIENCE! [CF Fall 2012]

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"I suppose we will have to see how she handles the club before we make any judgments," Liara said, glancing towards where Evan was running around. "But we will have to be careful."