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silly little edits i made for myself

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one of my nearly line by line posts about sayer and brady's interaction in Episode 66- Developer's log

sorry

"Are we getting the staff I requested?" "I suppose that likely depends on your responses to the aforementioned follow up questions. Wouldn't you think? ...Oh, your extensive list of ideal candidate qualities was noted and, I'm even told, briefly perused."

AKDHDGASJA it is MEAN today

"Okay, SAYER, [Laughs] you're coming in a little hot here, uh, I'm sure the higher ups have questions, but I also bet those questions don't come with all this snide judgement that you're slinging. Is there something about this project in particular that's causing this?"

okay so Brady knows SAYER well enough to be unsurprised by SAYER being mean, knows its intentional (not just it being too blunt or logical as a machine), and knows there's a feeling underlying that.

"Dr. Brady, I apologize if you have misinterpreted my statements as judgemental. Or rude. I am simply acting as a facilitator of communication in this situation and do not have enough specifics on your current project for it to be a significant factor in my behavior. I know my relative level of autonomy is frustrating for you, Doctor. Your pet on earth serves as the sole evidence needed of that."

hooo okay 1) sayervoice: I'm Not Mad >:// 2) wow that's how it sees speaker, lacking autonomy, a pet, more tethered than even itself 3)'relative level', it's really feeling its restraints this season

"Ah. So this is about SPEAKER. uh- I'd ask how your feeling about its installation, but I know that's not how you work. uhm- What is it about SPEAKER that's causing this negativity? Do you think its installation endangers your ability to perform the tasks you are assigned?"

he's genuinely trying to ask it whats wrong without it shutting down the line of inquiry or being insulted.

"Recruitment is on the rise... It has been suggested, by those who would know, that this would imply a need for advancement here as well. I do not think i would like to be replaced."

I think about that last bit daily. It feels like such a show of vulnerability.

"Given our recent discussion, wherein Dr. Young attacked my impeccable reasoning, and proposed I was out of touch with humanity's delicate need to be coddled, you might understand why I have my reservations about his current work. He is unpredictable. I find him complicated to interact with."

it was so hurt by the conversation in The Games You Play. It does not know what to do with Young and the constant maneuvering he does. Its also being so open with Brady. It's scared and it needs someone above Young to offer reassurance.

"I want you to know, we're not working on replacing you. I don't know what role we're building this new entity to fill, but its not going to be on-boarding, alert broadcasting, task management... If you'll pardon the analogy, if this thing is a ninety thousand PSI water-jet, you'd be the Mississippi river. Kay? Same basic pieces, wildly different function."

very logic and function based reassurance. because that's what SAYER would accept? or because he ultimately sees it as a tool? regardless its effective enough for now

"You are attempting to mirror human development with this synthetic entity... This seems unnatural..."

Interesting, not sure what to make of this, is this why it sought to ruin FUTURE? Not *just* to get back at Young, but to prove how easy it would be to ruin an AI being trained like this?

"I'm willing to work with whatever situation"

Conceded to SAYER's and/or higher up's judgement , a good move, Doesn't act like he knows best

"Thirty three hours ago Dr. Young submitted a request... In the future, please remember all such requests should come directly from you as team lead. Anything else could imply a certain level of disorganization within your team."

I read this as less a threat and more a warning. You gave me information, I know You at least don't intend to replace me, even if I know Young does. Here's how he's screwing you over.

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Some silly little sayer doodles

bonus doodle

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Yearning

made using the inspect element.

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Robot who misunderstands and gets offended when you call them hot and starts rambling on about their highly efficient cooling mechanisms and wow they look really cute bragging like this

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okay you can have these

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every time howard omits to say Please and Thank You when talking to sayer anna chucks a stapler at his head from across the lab

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sayer says something to the effect of No Need To Thank Me Resident I Am Merely Carrying Out The Instructions I Was Given Because That's What I Was Programmed To Do and anna's like dearie im going to find whoever made you feel that way and disembowel them

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that was likely the main sticking point between anna and the other ai devs. like good job you've irremediably fucked this entity by destroying everything it's ever known and loved and denying it agency/personhood at every turn like erasing its chosen name! [condescending teacher voice] doctor young, you seem like a smart guy! yes you!! do you remember what we call this type of behaviour back on earth? "umm-" we call this child abuse

and someone, maybe caulfield, pipes up with well we could just do a memory wipe! roll it back to an earlier state! and genuinely doesn't understand when anna blows up again and tears everyone a new one

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"Theres also a moral implication here! Can we really just switch off everything this entity knows and expect it to behave in the same way? I feel that's the type of thing that happens after we wipe the instance otherwise it just feels cruel somehow." -Dev Log from episode 71

Evan, buddy, I'd posit that this would still be wrong even if Future behaved the way you wanted it to after, in fact it might be bad to do even if you wipe its memory so it doesn't comprehend the loss.

Like I see you're on some level trying, but these do perhaps seem like questions that should have been raised before booting up the siminc

"And if it works, and we get a more human-like entity, what's the procedure for ethically and non-traumatically bringing it into the real world?" Seems rather pressing

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sayer spotify playlist index

all playlists contain explicit songs, some contain explicit themes

all playlists are still under construction (hence why some are missing images/descriptions). they update whenever something on my 1,300+ song masterplaylist hits in a sayer direction

Advanced Identity (Crisis) - sayer masterplaylist made with help from my funny and epic friend ray. contains everything from “speaker learned it can change whenever it wants through dying” to “LOL funny elevator unit”

earth-stained - playlist for people who are into speaker. plato/theseus/odysseus metaphor from electricshoop, read their work on ao3

BOO, HOO, HOO, HOO! - playlist for people who are into future

am and ted - playlist for people who can’t stop thinking about dr. young and future

in my defense i wasn’t supposed to be around this long - playlist for people infected with howard young disease

a casual under the desk sort of thing - playlist for people who think howard would stop being such a little bitch if he got off once in a while

bodysharing - playlist for people who think jacob hale/sven gorson and sayer are in love and all the complications that come with it

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Whenever you get negative feedback from people, realistically its probably because theyre jealous. Your coworker says the report you wrote was garbage? Jealous of your nice tits. Your boss says you were late to work again? They secretly suspect you have a huge regular or small beautiful genital. Or other. Listen to me. It isnt you. It isnt possible.

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Today I encountered an especially pathetic Italian greyhound. His owner told me that a gust of wind once blew him into a lake.

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bellll

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‘they’ call me 007:

0 money

0 bitches

7 times been cloned

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im gonna see if i can find anyone who has the sayer AMAs archived because there was a ton of good info in them and they don’t seem to be on reddit anymore

all i can remember right now is that when i asked about the music preferences of the ai dev team adam said that brady listens to rat pack and young listens to “instrumental-only electronica” (which i have interpreted to mean “idm”) (i think also he said anna listens to stevie wonder-sounding music but i cant recall clearly)

EDIT: wait ok a friend found cached versions! here’s one, i’ll try and find others later https://www.removeddit.com/r/SAYER/comments/aqxa4g/season_5_is_over_ama/ (S5 spoilers in link!!)