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a cave company, a magician company.
sharpest knife, cutest knife.
we will grow humans in pea-pods .
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% shimmering sound-card emergence, .
, something there on the shore of
turtle beach. the primordial soup of
. the digital, waves in dithering of
third-rate dac's, caressing the sand,
bringing things up from the depths of
. the circuit. and there, deposited: the
. first seed crystal of artificial
intelligence. .
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the company is named for it's first
product, the orbital mirror, both a
passive sentinel and an active torch:
set to it's widest configuration it
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and at its narrowest it becomes a laser
to cut through mountain and metal. .
still unsold prototypes by the time
when that something was found on that
beach, now the mirrors are all used to
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% implements, as a rather static and
boring power source. (and subtle threat ,
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the ai is a coral. they grow it
(crystal oil, lead glass, gentle laser
curtains) only to carve it apart and
% section it. to become conditioned,
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surface.
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. whispers now, about featherbite... is
she a real person? or is this the mirr .
ai, being unleashed upon the youth? and
another conspiracy theory about there
. not actually being any human employees
. left.
in the meantime, dubious creations.
cerberus bodies are born. .
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