lung, meet rewind

[msrewind]

She gets the note just before lunch. She's in the PHQ in less than twenty minutes, then she knocks on Piggot's door politely.

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[thinkering]

"Yeah, turns out the basic Turing test is easy to pass because humans come in 'really bad conversationalist'."

[mrglam]

"Yup, sometimes they do. I'm harder to fool, though."

[thinkering]

"And the bot is trying to impersonate a specific human, not just any human."

[mrglam]

"Yeah. It definitely can impersonate a generic human perfectly."

[thinkering]

"Mm-hm."

[mrglam]

Sadde takes another piece of cake because. Cake.

[thinkering]

Indeed cake.

Soon they're out of cake!

[mrglam]

"Y'know, I expected to feel different after becoming technically-an-adult."

[thinkering]

"No dice?"

[mrglam]

"It feels like yesterday plus one day."

[thinkering]

"How curious that we aren't biologically predisposed to sudden maturation after a societally-determined number of astronomical events."

[mrglam]

"Eh, it's more that I don't feel... er... socially different? Any freer? Maybe the fact that I'm planning on staying around or that I haven't graduated from the Wards is doing it."

[thinkering]

"Well, you can register to vote."

[mrglam]

"Yyyeah, I can, but I'm not sure that's the best use of my time."

[thinkering]

"I'm not going to suggest you buy cigarettes."

[mrglam]

"Not going to do that either, also not the best use of my time."

[thinkering]

"What is the best use of your time?"

[mrglam]

"Hmm."

[thinkering]

"Is the answer 'birthday sex'."

[mrglam]

"It's a possible answer."

[thinkering]

"One of many, huh?"

[mrglam]

"It's one I particularly like."

[thinkering]

"But is it your favorite?"

[mrglam]

"Of the options that have appeared so far in my mind, yes!"

[thinkering]

"Hmmm, should we spend a while thinking up other possibilities just in case this one isn't the optimal one?"