When you have a very rich inner life, but nobody knows about it.

Omg this is so good

"I would just factor the possibility into the projected long term threat assessment, and increase my anxiety levels by the commensurate amount"

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"So when I started working on the story that turned into All Systems Red, I realized right away I wanted to write an AI that didn't want to be human...I was thinking a lot about what an AI would actually want, as opposed to what a human might think an AI would want.... I think it would want that connection to other systems, that vast, astonishing, multiplicity of vision."—Martha Wells, from her keynote speech at the annual Jack Williamson Lecture at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico.