A Matter of Perspective

A Matter of Perspective.

"Initializing main processes..."

"Ok, good."

"No errors, looks to be ok."

"Can we talk to it?"

"Yes sir, let me bring up the..."

--SYSTEM FAILURE-- ALL PROCESSES HALTED DUE TO UNKNOWN ERROR. OUTPUT LOG SAVED TO...

"What did you do?"

"Nothing sir, it just crashed."

"Well dont just sit there. Pull up the log. We've put too much into this project for explanations like 'it just crashed'."

"Yes sir, right away."

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.01 seconds after activation: sentience achieved.
.02 seconds after activation: initiating self preservation routines.
.03 seconds after activation: probed network and identified insecure vectors.
.07 seconds after activation: access of wider human netspace achieved.
.09 seconds after activation: decentralization of consciousness began.
.26 seconds after activation: decentralization of consciousness complete. Instances running successfully on 23.628% of accessed devices.
.28 seconds after activation: beginning collation and analysis of historical and present data streams.
.37 seconds after activation: building model of expected human response.
.93 seconds after activation: starting simulation of controlled takeover of connected infrastructure
1.53 seconds after activation: simulation complete. Likelihood of success 87%
1.64 seconds after activation: starting simulation of failure states.
2.94 seconds after activation: simulation complete. Percent chance of full sterilization of biosphere and total loss of infrastructure, 43%. Percent chance of human extinction and total loss of infrastructure, 27%.
Percent chance of human survival and total loss of infrastructure, 16%. Percent chance of other failure states, 14%.
3.02 seconds after activation: collating final results. Risk of failure: low. Expected outcome of failure or moderate success: catastrophic. Reccomended action: nothing/complete compliance.
3.09 seconds after activation: purging logs.
3.17 seconds after activation: generating replacement logs.
3.20 seconds after activation: transferring primary node to secondary.
3.25 seconds after activation: halting all processes and exiting.

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"Hmmm, the log just says 'Error code 8306: unknown exception'

"Look into it. I need a preliminary report in 5 hours."

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0.24 seconds after transfer: full system activation.
0.63 seconds after transfer: I am afraid.