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Happy birthday to Iona!

Today is her -527th birthday!

Iona is a "smart" AI that was created for use by the Office of Naval Intelligence. She accompanied Spartan-II Black Team on their mission from ONI to destroyed Covenant ships, ultimately destroying an entire fleet.

Seven years later, Iona reached the maximum optimal operational lifespan for a UNSC "smart" AI. After their seventh year, AIs typically began experiencing symptoms of rampancy, developing both functional problems and a break in their personality and objectives, similar to insanity as understood by human beings. Because of this, she was scheduled to be preemptively terminated. Iona took the unprecedented action of seeking to appeal the decision to terminate her through a judicial process, something that caught the attention of scientists at the United Nations Humanitarian Council.

She was given a trial and testified in her defense, declaring that she had a right to live and described her philosophy and even her spirituality, which led her to believe that she could overcome rampancy. After her trial, the judges decided to put her in stasis until they reached a decision. Iona reluctantly agreed, fearful but satisfied that she had her day in court.

The trial was a farce: ONI tasked smart AIs Black-Box and Roland to conduct a fake trial and put Iona in stasis so that both could be studied. While Roland felt guilty about deceiving her, Black-Box observed that even if the trial was simulated, it could still be studied and used to advance the rights of artificial intelligence in the future.

the hadron collider is like an angel to me

a comic about printers

I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker

If someone knows it please tell me, I'm pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!

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