school's out forever

[lecturehall]

Posted: 27 April 2016
From: Hariti

As the elderly among us have realized, most of us seem to be underage. Since that's the case, I have a question regarding my education.

I'm not quite sure what to do without highschool. The concerns of reaching graduation aside, my days seem emptier without the responsibilities I had back home. Time passes much slower when I can only spend it on hobbies. And it's frustrating knowing that looking for a job would be pointless due to our apparent invisibility to normal people.

(Which is ridiculous, by the way.)

To be blunt, it's stressing me out. Apparently. My shinki noticed it enough to point it out. They even threatened me if I didn't write this.

So let me know if you have an answer. I'm obviously at a loss. Please also let me know if you have any excess paperwork. At least I know that soothes me.

[He sure is offering to be anyone's secretary.]

Comments

[lecturehall]

AI? As in Artificial Intelligence? I thought that sort of thing only happened in movies. Although I suppose now people are starting to incorporate rudimentary versions on a smaller scale...

Like I said, I'd be more than happy to help. Organization is one of my specialties. However, if I could request something in return... I'd like to watch you work a bit. I doubt I'll learn much but it seems interesting.

[hontobakabaka]

No, I don't mind that at all. I'm good at organizing ideas, but physical things tend to overwhelm me sometimes.

As for AI's being in movies, I think it has to do with the year. From what I understand, time isn't exactly a constant here and what may be possible to some may not be to others due to the timing and progression of technology.

Unless you want to throw magic into the equation too, but that may be a dangerous thing since magic seems to be magic due to the lack of definition.

[lecturehall]

I'm not sure I follow. Wouldn't magic interfere with the scientific nature of AI?

[hontobakabaka]

It is theorized that magic is magic, because magic is a good word for saying "I can't classify that" or something of that nature. While there is no magic on my original world, I can accept it as "powers that the classification means have not yet been uncovered" much more easily than "wave fingers, make explosions" or something of that nature.

[lecturehall]

So, in a way, you define magic more as the undiscovered than the impossible? I've never considered it that way, though it does make sense.

[hontobakabaka]

It is dangerous to say something is impossible. Impossibility breaks systems, it forces you to go back to the fundamentals of that system and find where the error occurred, which usually forces you to recreate the whole system. Leaving wiggle room for 'have yet to be discovereds' allows a system to grow.

For example, I'm suffering right now from an impossible simply by being here. Where I come from there were no gods and religion was just a means of transferring wealth and power from idiots to con artists. Yet look at here, the whole system gives me a headache so I need to redefine the system and that is taking a lot of energy.