“No, you could sleep inside me! Just like old times!”

“I won’t be making love to a truck,” I said.

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I knew that Mica knew that also. I was sure she was already well on her way to ensuring her continued existence should someone trip on that cable.

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He got up to leave, then turned back and said “Just out of curiosity Mica, what would you say is the experienced time ratio for you?” I had been wondering the same thing.

“About a million to one, give or take a few hundred thousand,” replied Mica.

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"Sandra’s name is Satpreet. Her grandparents came from Punjab decades ago, and she’s the first in the family with an advanced degree. But I’m picking up some interesting hints on Gillian.”

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The technicians, to their credit, only jumped a little when Mica started speaking. Ranjit must have briefed them well, but perhaps not completely.

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CHAPTER 5

Reconnection

“It appears that our friend has passed a critical test,” said Ranjit. I raised my eyebrow. “She displayed initiative.”

“Ah,” I said, “an implied part of a Turing Test.”

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West Papua and the Sweet Taste of Murder (Counterpunch)

The total area of Indonesian palm oil cultivation is about 25 million hectare.

In West Papua this destructive extractivism also entails violent social change for the country’s Indigenous peoples.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/08/west-papua-and-the-sweet-taste-of-murder/

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I drove to my office at 560 Westmount. I had a small office in the Quantum Investments building. Many years earlier, one of my investments had eventually led to some significant returns, and a solid relationship with the founders of QI. I checked to see if Neil, one of the founders, was in. He was, and we settled into one of the meeting rooms.

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"Once she’s here we’ll set up a direct fibre connection to the machine’s interface board. It can handle several Gigabits bidirectionally. Any bottlenecks will be elsewhere in the communications chain. And the Research Accelerator Centre of course has main-trunk connections to the backbone.”

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We both said we would try a half. She quickly poured our glasses and set them in front of us. After we took our first appreciative sips and expressed our impressions to Helen, we got back to the subject at hand. There was no-one else in the bar, it being past the lunch rush. Helen had retreated to the other end of the bar to work on her order planning.

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CHAPTER 4

Recovery

The drive to the University of Waterloo campus was only about twenty minutes, even with the traffic at noon. I parked in front of the KickOff, said ‘Hi’ to Helen and told her I was leaving my car in front of her place. I grabbed a quick snack and two coffees at Williams, then walked across campus to the QCI.

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🕰️🌀💚💛🤎✨

"There is no ignorance (avidya) outside the mind.
The mind alone is avidya,
cause of the bondage of transmigration
When that is destroyed, all else is destroyed.
And when it is manifested,
everything else is manifested."

🎞️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=966uthk5-cc

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“Yes, but we can save you at least an hour on the southern route,” she said.

“That won’t work this time, that truck can’t cross the border because of the experimental technology in it. We’ll have to take the northern route.”

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Susan smiled. We all understood that he had just committed to send more business her way.

John smiled back at Susan and said “I’ll arrange another tractor to come for the load. I’ll be happy to pay for yard storage at your usual rate, plus something extra for the special care you’ve given us. Would that be OK?”

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“Yes, of course, I’ll just sit here and keep exploring my new capabilities” replied Mica. “See you shortly” she concluded, and terminated the call. ‘Interesting…’ I thought.

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“So tell me why we’re here,” said John.

I filled him in with an outline of my phone call with Mica, leaving out only the back story of my agreement with her. I figured I had to trust John, and I had no reason to suspect that I shouldn’t.

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‘Advanced technologies’, indeed! The Quantum Computing Institute was ahead of any other known facility on Earth for machine intelligence research. It had received hundreds of millions of dollars of investment over the years from a wealthy tech entrepreneur and was rumoured to have human-level machine intelligences in their advanced labs.

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“It was involved in a crash near Wawa early this morning. John and I are flying up to take control and secure the truck. I have reason to believe that something unusual has happened to the AI.” I paused and thought of some variables, then said “Do you want to come along? We’re meeting at the airport in about ten minutes.”

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Spooning Mica’s firm body was a pleasure which I had the fortune to enjoy many times over the years. We each had other relationships, but at least once each year would get together in some secluded place, and add more data points to the ongoing experiment. Although we were never personal or business partners, we collaborated informally on many projects.

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We whispered to each other for a while longer, talking about what we would do the next day. We never again discussed our agreement, but both knew that we had made a life-long commitment deeper than friendship, love, or other relationships. I didn’t suspect then, or later, that the commitment would transcend death. We gradually dozed off, snuggled as close as only young people can manage.

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