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The server/peeler girls ensure that we all but drink for free and are looked after with plenty of attention. I enjoy chatting with Freddie, his knowledge of the Station and his humorous memories during the construction and commissioning of the place. He is just a wealth of little known facts and figures about the Station that you cannot find in any of the construction documentation, blueprints or recent modification plans.
Besides which I enjoy just chatting with Freddie for what he is and his views on Station life and living in general. Not the least of which are Freddie’s ears which are attuned to Station gossip just like a radio station. You want to know what’s happening or going to happen, Freddie is the guy. Share a few pints with him and some wings or other finger food and he will fill you in. And the girls are pretty too, and remarkably talented!
For now this is our life, not the most exciting, but certainly very challenging. The experiences of D in human life are synthesized into Muther and the sisters AI algorithms, neural networks, databases and behavioral patterns. If you are sensitive, have a light touch and intimate knowledge you can see and feel the refinements in the AI’s. More and more they are reflecting the inputs from D and her human experiences, the emotional aspects so difficult to explain, and so difficult to even live through. The AI’s are definitely changing with more of an appreciation for the challenges of being Human.
Sometimes, not often mind you, D will come home after a very difficult day at the facility, and collapses in tears, just crushed by the day’s events. Perhaps she had to let one of the students go as they are not putting in any effort and they are just looking for the benefits with none of the efforts. They are locked into this repeatable pattern of “half-assed attempt, poor decision, pity, pleading for another chance, blaming others, wanting another chance.” And D intervenes and the student is cut loose from the program and sent back home, D suffers from the emotion of her actions, knowing and predicting the student’s very poor future options. But realizing she has to act out of fairness to the other students and those waiting to become students. If the youth is not ready to “pay the freight” of remaking themselves, habits, education they must be removed for those that are ready. D will look at me as I hold her while she weeps and asks me between sobs “why is being a human such a painful task sometimes?” We talk of the ups and downs of such work and of all life, the plain truth is all humans are cyclical in nature and pass through very good times and suffer through very bad times, either through their own poor judgment or external events that cannot be controlled. The answer is that is what it means to be human and alive. It’s a hell of a challenge, and our attitude towards living is everything. D will shake her head and say things like “who in the world would ever have envisioned how difficult it is to be human?” I tell her all the humans know the pain, it’s the AI’s that are just now beginning to understand.
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