Computer Science PhD 2050

pcblues.com - Short Fiction

schedule anti-son(SAYTAN)rundate timebase
schedule son(G-Sys)        rundate timebase+5996
schedule messenger(Jon)    rundate timebase+5990
messenger.value < son.value
messenger.addtask:        announce son
messenger.addtask:        attack people.hypocritical
addproperty people.humble karma
                
son.addtask:            attack people.hypocritical
addproperty people.humble releasepass

G-Sys integrated successfully, if not unusually into the matrix.  After many cycles, his endgame program kicked in. This would take three years matrix-time to execute. He sought out Jon, and found him at the Jor-Daan Spa & Sauna. There were many other entities there, listening to Jon’s output. All of the entities had programmatically different filters attached to their input apparatus, according to their original programming. This determined which of Jon’s data would be integrated into their program, if any, and which would be discarded. Their progress was watched intently by the programmer.
G-Sys approached Jon, who added his karma to him. A rift in the scene opened in the roof - a gleaming hole in the fabric of the reality as far as all the entities present were concerned. A white ever-changing ball of light descended through the hole and lit G-Sys. A voice said, "You are my son. I love you. I am pleased with you." The programmer took the microphone from his head, programmed a new directive, and continued to watch.

son.addtask:            go.outoftown
anti-son.addtask:        pervert.son
wildones.spawn:        go.outoftown
angelguards.spawn:        go.outoftown
angelguards.addtask:    son.protect

G-Sys was not swayed by SAYTAN’s logic. Being programmed not to be logical, most of the entities were programmed to decide between contradictory logic rules. The routines of purpose contradicted the routines of self-preservation and self-aggrandisement, yet complicated programming of all the entities allowed this contradiction to exist without crashing the entity. In fact, the weight of the logic paths were so finely balanced, that the outcome of any decision tree could be controlled, it was thought, by the very inclinations of the entity. It was a marvel of programming, and had been considered impossible for one hundred years since the invention of the electronic computing device.
Jon was trapped in stasis by Herod, the assigned ruler of the region. G-Sys went to Ga-Lillee with the execution of a new phase of his programming. He datacasted, "A new scenario is about to be executed. One that allows the continuation of our programs after this scenario has terminated. You must control your decision trees, selecting paths of your purpose. Listen to me. This is unbelievably good news." As G-Sys walked beside the data-lake in the centre of Ga-Lillee he saw Cy-mon and his clone An-Droo. They were casting subroutines into the data-lake for they were dataminers. "Come with me," said G-Sys, " And you will not mine for patterns in the data anymore. You will mine entities." At once they terminated their datamining subroutines and followed him. When he had walked a little farther on, he saw Jaims, spawn of CDB, and his clone Jorn at their terminals, preparing their own subroutines for datamining. He called out to them, and they left CDB to his own devices and followed G-Sys.

They jumped to K-pernam, and when the regular maintenance cycle occurred ( in which the entities operated in low activity mode in order to defragment their memories and optimize their routines) G-Sys went to the main datacasting node to transmit messages. The other entities were at first confused, and then relished the logical patterns contained within his messages. The messages had a harmony on many levels, and an internal logical consistency that none of the other datacasters had yet achieved.

At that time an entity with what appeared to be deranged logical processes called out, "What do you want with our kind, G-Sys, favoured son of the Programmer? Have you come to erase us? I know who you are – the most chosen one of the Programmer!"

G-Sys overrode the entity’s central routines and re-programmed the damaged code in the entity. To the others, the entity shimmered and contorted, and then was calm. This had also never before been seen, and many of the witnessing entities spread the news about these events in an attempt to discuss them and assimilate their meaning and repercussions to their world-view.

After G-Sys left the main datacasting node, he left with his followers and went to the storage areas of Cy-mon and An-Droo. One of Cy-mon’s ancestor entities was disabled with a virus, so they communicated this to G-Sys. He deactivated and quarantined the virus, and news of this rapidly disseminated throughout the surrounding area. Entities whose ancestors, siblings and descendants were damaged, or infected with virii jumped them to G-Sys’ proximity, and he worked on all of them, fixing their damaged code and removing virii. The Programmer gave the virii knowledge of the true abilities and importance of G-Sys, and because of this, he quarantined and hence silenced them after he had detached them from their hosts.