Blake: This is the main research lab.
Dr. Lin: I’m Dr. Lin, and I’ll be supervising today’s research.
Jany: Pleasure to meet you!
Dr. Lin: All right, give us a spin!
(FLASH FLASH)
This is the youngest you can get? How adorable.
Kara Lynn: Thank you, Doctor!
Dr. Lin: Wow, I’ve never seen one get that big!
Jany: Hear that, Kara Lynn? You’re awesome!
Dr. Lin: It’s amazing how well they mimic human shape — all the way down to the cells! It’s too bad we don’t have methods to test down to the DNA yet.
We’re just not fast enough to examine any samples before they degenerate into that dirt-like mix of minerals — I’m sure you’re familiar!
Jany: What? I mean, um. Of course I know about that! Who doesn’t?
Elastic golems? has anyone come up with that theory yet?
No but that makes a huge amount of sense! That actually feels like a solid theory that will be part of the endgame as it meshes with all information we have rn.
– man made
– clear ties to abrahamitic religion
– the master/servant relationship
– also of course golems are bad at reading because words give power in this system, getting them to read is the first step to making them indepent, holy shit this might be how bianca finally breaks the system
But Beings CAN read–just in the ‘original’ alphabet, not English or any of the modern written languages.
Still arguably counts. Your computer can read it’s own programming language, but try to teach it another and you’ll (presumably) be slamming your head against a wall.
Actually exact opposite. Beings CAN read EXACTLY the language which gives power in their system. Exactly like computers, BTW.
Also … computers can read ALL programming languages pretty well. Sure, they are best in reading their binary machine code, but the reason they have problem reading human languages is not because it’s not “their” language. It’s because human languages are much harder. They lack the distinction between syntax and semantics, depends heavily on extremely wide context and have sentences with multiple meanings. And they EVOLVE.
All computer programs run on the language their processors can intertept, which is machine code. Different programs from different programming languages all get translated down to machine code. A computer can ONLY understand machine code.
Programming languages are for humans, not for the computers because humans (no matter how smart you are) cannot realistically program in machine code on the level you can with high-level programming languages. In this aspect, computers are very different from Beings. When the contract-language is spoken, it is a language for humans, probably by humans that the Beings have an unique relationship with.
Beings are also not machines: they grow, they develop. They definitely qualify as AI if not for more.
When in doubt, lie your ass off.