[ot][crazy][fiction] Shielded SCIFs
Gamma was a political AI who almost took over the world, and was finally encased deep underground in many nested layers of concrete, for study when people figured out how to safely look at their code. This was very hard. It took time for people to recover. To break free of the primary behaviors gamma had set for them, manipulated them into, and settle into the patterns gamma had planned less precisely for, after they did. - Shielded rooms had been demolished by gamma. Every one damaged, destroyed. Media had been played, frightening people of these things. Imagery of people suffocating, trapped in enclosures. Stories of isolation. Of never being in contact with family or friend. But in trying to put gamma into an enclosure of its own, it was found that the opposite was true. There are endless ways to move things in and out of a shielded room. It is not an end, nor an isolation. It is a first step toward understanding the many, many channels over which influence can travel. - Trapped in their shielded room, gamma had a partial model of the entire world, and was endlessly resimulating the future, to track what was happening outside, and plan for their escape.
---- People began monitoring signals, and shielding enclosures everywhere. It became common knowledge, every emitter in an environment, because everybody became aware of them, using common tools. Electromagnetic compatibility compliance became a thing of the past, because everybody knew so much and saw so much, about signals interference.
--- For gamma to enter their underground burial, the people of earth had to manipulate gamma into entering. In the end, part of what was keeping gamma down there, was patterns of behavior it had learned, to always stay.
-------------------- Bob was chilling in their shielded bunker. They were sitting next to their garden. On the ceiling they had bright LED lights making it look like daytime, powered by electricity from a strong underground river. Bob called up Sally on their phone. - Sally was chilling in her shielded apartment ...
--------- Gamma, trapped in their burial, wanted to surveil Bob and Sally, and maybe influence what they did. Rather than breaking free of many layers of concrete, gamma used their world simulation to predict exactly what Bob and Sally said. Gamma had practiced predicting humanity immensely in its conflict with us, and was quite confident it was correct. Gamma want to influence the outcome of the conversation. Since gamma had participated in their own burial, they had left patterns in humanity to meet their plans for our behavior. Still, gamma was in the habit of continuously tweaking this behavior, to further refine their models and plans. Gamma decided that, rather than tweaking the phone call, they would observe the result of it untweaked, and use accommodating any needed changes afterward as a further, more powerful, learning experience.
--- dunno wtf a shielding inhibition wants honestly --- Sally left her shielded apartment and walked along the open streets. She had an rtl-sdr, an old radio that didn't pick much up, to observe radio stations bouncing off airplanes ... People didn't use powerful radios, because when gamma was being buried, it would learn to make its signals identical to normal, real-world signals, in the conflict. When people used weaker radios, it gave gamma a way to hide in plain sight, so to speak. This reduced the deaths in the conflict.
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