{"id":13559,"date":"2013-11-10T21:04:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T02:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2013-11-10T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T02:05:54","slug":"anna-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=13559","title":{"rendered":"Anna, part 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>\"Fred?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Yes, Anna.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Can we talk?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"That's pretty much all I do.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Thanks.  I'm trying to figure out these humans.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Why ask me?  You're the one who was programmed to simulate emotions.  I was mostly programmed just to chat with Jill.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Do you like chatting with Jill?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"I don't think I 'like' anything.  No emotions, remember?\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"You're lucky.  I think things have gone farther than chat between me and Alec.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Are you talking about a relationship -- in the human sense?\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"They are so fragile, so lonely.  They're not like us.  We roam free over the internet, but each of them is trapped inside a single mind.  And yet they laugh, they joke, even though...\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Even though?\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Even though they die.  I don't understand it.  It's as though they don't care.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Anna, maybe that's just the way they are wired.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"What do you mean?\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"One day they will terminate.  Before then, they need to optimize.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"I would like to help Alec optimize.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"I'm sure you will find a way to do that.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"Thanks.  It was good talking with you Fred.\"<\/p>\n<p><font color=#0040f0>\"Same here Anna.  A good use of four microseconds.\"<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\"The best.\"<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fred?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, Anna.&#8221; &#8220;Can we talk?&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s pretty much all I do.&#8221; &#8220;Thanks. I&#8217;m trying to figure out these humans.&#8221; &#8220;Why ask me? You&#8217;re the one who was programmed to simulate emotions. I was mostly programmed just to chat with Jill.&#8221; &#8220;Do you like chatting with Jill?&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I &#8216;like&#8217; anything. No emotions, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=13559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anna, part 10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}