NETWORK EFFECT, page 227: I found her in a small secondary lounge area near Medical. As I walked in she was saying, “because it thought you were dead. It was so upset I thought-Oh hey, you're here." I stood there accusingly, not looking at her. She tried to hold it in and managed it for almost six seconds, then burst out, "ART should know how you really feel about it! And this is serious, it's like-you and ART are making a baby just so you can send it off to get killed or deleted or--or whatever might happen." "A baby?" I said. I was still mad at Amena telling ART about my emotional collapse behind my back. But I really wish ART had a face, just so I could see it right now. "It's not a baby, it's a copy of me, made with code." Amena folded her arms and looked intensely skeptical. "That you and ART made together, with code. Code which both of you are also made out of." I said, "That's not like a human baby." Amena said, “So how are human babies made? By combining DNA, an organic code, from two or more participants." Okay, so it was a little like a human baby. "That's .. irrelevant." ART said, Amena, it may be necessary. ART sounded serious, and resigned. Amena pressed her lips together, unhappy. I'd won the argument, yay me, so I left.
This book really goes "Murderbot and ART are making a code baby" and you expect me not to ship #murderART? Ridiculous.
This might be my favourite section of this book 😌 Theyre so silly.
#Murderbot #NetworkEffect
