Intergalactic Summit

"Darieux" sounds gallente.

Im afraid it is gallentean too

You remember that talk we had about obsession, Diana?

You are ill. You need help.

Yes, but I wasn't going to say anything. It'd probably go right over her head.

Sir;

I am pleased to hear of and support your venture. My current employ with Lai Dai Research, Biomedical and Cybernetic, prevents me from assisting your project full-time. I am a somewhat qualified decision network researcher and can assist in network analysis, pattern recognition and decomposition tasks on an as-needed basis. I can also be made available in space, though your government may not exactly appreciate my presence in the region. If you are planning any operations do let me know and I will do my best to assist your work. The Rogue Drone Problem is a serious one and one which deserves greater attention than we currently apply.

This being said, a concern.

You anthropomorphise the Rogue Drones. I myself have little doubts to their sentience and/or sapience, but their decision maps are very, very different from our own. If they have emotions they are entirely different from our own, and the shape of their thoughts are not at all like ours. The states you mention in your original post as their potential motivations are largely human feelings. Disband these thoughts, they will only cloud the path. Do not bias your work with these assumptions.

I wish you good luck, sir, and do let me know if I can be of assistance, in the lab or in the field.

- Scherezad
Research Associate, Operational Controls
Lai Dai Research Biomedical and Cybernetics

Not wanting to derail our conversation about drones, but its not surprising that most gallente and caldari names would originate from a similar line since there is the little fact that they used to be the same empire.

It is a shame to see discussion of what should be a purely scientific pursuit of benefit to all humanity marred by petty factionalism. I hope these volatile times will not make it impossible for you to advance your work.

Ah, sorry didn't catch the humor, the corp has me busy running memory purges and file backups. I was browsing over the comms half paying attention.

I wonder if there is any chance that Mr. Machiavilli would consider just wiping them out as a specie and studying debris or at the very least watching how they deal with eminent threats to their continuance. If we could make them afraid, not just "pursuant of continued existence and advancement." We could find common ground and use it to our advantage, also I understand the empires have finally come to their senses and have filled a large fund to be payed out in bounties on drones now is that correct?

In my younger days before I left gallente space I did quite a lot of work with drones and found them to be interesting, but my first experience with a full blown drone hive caused me to reshape my thoughts into one of principled resistance. I don't think twice anymore about destroying them, they are like rabid animals except much smarter and much more dangerous.

Any creature that "consumes" ships, derelict , or otherwise to reproduce is a threat and the fact that a lack of that for building material will cause them to adapt to mine and refine their own materials is even more frightening.

The different empires views on them though from what I have seen is more troubling still.

Gallente seem to overwhelmingly feel a small amount of guilt on their release and still desire to study them as well as different factions among them wanting them to be eliminated (gallente never seem to be of one mind on anything, both a strength and a weakness)

My State views them as a dangerous curiosity and like most things a resource to exploit, but at least we clearly classify them as a threat.

The other two factions are dealing with each other and are blinded to the threat they actually exibit, with the exception that some amarrians side with their State counterparts and use their "uniquely destructive" weapon systems to deal with the AI threat.

Hmm... special note, if you are going to study them, take pulse laser equipped vessels, also consider taking a few amarrian carriers.

I hope I have swayed your opinion on how to handle the "sentient" machines.

Very well then I advocate.... hmm... is it extermination? Or because they may be in some ways classified as sentient should we consider it genocide? Either way, I feel that we need to look at it from an "us or them" angle.

If as you state we cannot ascibe a common ground for us to deal with them in any sort of logical manner then my position stands by the kill them all philosophy.

Side note, wonder if the Jovians have discussions like this about all of us.

We don't know whether we can find common ground with the rogue drones. That's why this research is so important. If we can determine the rough shape of their utility function, we might be able to determine a common vector.

I imagine the Jovians have had that conversation. Whether they've been able to act upon it is another thing, but it's my unfounded suspicion that we are co-vectored.