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I would not be surprised if Caleb's retinas differ significantly from yours and mine.

I'm guessing those are the actuators used to manipulate the eyes we usually see.

I think it's just a voiceless exclamation like a choking noise.

We know that Lee watches a _lot_ of media and doesn't go to school. They could really be that ignorant, especially if some of the media they watch is set in pre-Johannesburg times.

Yeah, I think wireheading is the canonical version of this.

I can't remember if I said this last time it came up, but it reminds me of the Quebecois custom of swearing by holy things such as "Tabernac'!"

It might also be the effect of some sort of wartime injury or exposure to a kind of radiation we don't currently know about.

He does indeed - he encourages commissions on twitter.

It seems like Zoa has some kind of multi-level mind, like humans. It has a superego of some sort that can say "I care for you and want you to not be taken advantage of" but when it's just a question of grabbing money off the table it's id will take over and just take it. Oh, actually, we c...

It could also be that Zoa's general heuristic is defined to be generally a negative number, encouraging it to always seek for improvement. If an AI reaches a positive number they may stop acting entirely, or at least act far less urgently.