Cat: we don’t really get this? But that’s mostly on account of having internalized our role as a social wrecking ball. We will follow our trajectory, unyielding, and all the NTs are just going to have to deal with it.

Just: In my personal experience from way back when? Being such a terrifyingly violent little shit that no-one wants to risk setting you off may have its drawbacks, but it damn well works at getting bullies to knock it off. But being terrifyingly violent doesn’t mean you need to be an asshole when not provoked.

Just: I’m in the latter category, but that’s because I’m an avid pedestrian who’s been almost run over FAR too many times.

Cat: Sorry, we’d rather keep our hand.

Just: I am a specific process running on our brain.

Luci: We’re going to get a non-plural family member to sit for a few minutes with the EEG on them to get a comparison.

Madeline: I haven’t encountered any (that I know of), so cannot answer this question.

Madeline: Though I would be quite interested in what ANYONE would stand to gain from lying about the shape of the world. I’d really want to dissect those motives.

Madeline: To be clear, I want them to come back reasonably intact. I don’t want them dead, I want to shatter their worldview.

Madeline: I don’t want them dead. I just want to hear the wonderful shattering noises of their worldview going snap.

Madeline: Fundamentally, I think it’s fictitious.

Madeline: Point.

Digital Rights Management. AKA the stuff that’s supposed to prevent unauthorized copying and suchlike, but in practice just means the pirates have a better experience than legit customers.

C: AGI is possible. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t exist. The laws of physics permit the creation of conscious agents, therefore it is possible for one to be deliberately engineered.

Cat: Not equal, triple. Need to make it HURT.

Just: We absolutely must wall off Meta.

Just: Firefox.

Cat: Yeah, don’t give Meta a single inch. They need to GTFO.

Cat: Nice to see some long-time friends around.

Just: Well, in our case it was on purpose. I deliberately attributed agency to an invented mental entity and interacted with them as such until they started talking back. Some people refer to this technique as Tulpamancy and the resulting headmates as Tulpas, but I don’t for personal reasons.

Cat: For context, I’m the person Just made that way. Just’s proven to have something of a habit of people-making since, either through characters escaping from our writing projects, or by performing various reckless experiments on the inside of our mind.

Just: Hey, you’re not innocent of that either, miss “Oops my AI Safety thought experiment moved in with us”.

Cat: …Point.

Cat: Er… we’ve got a whole internal polycule, with easy communications and stuff.

Lucifer: VubDapple, I think you might be over-generalizing stuff from traumagenic systems to plurality as a whole. With regards to plurality tending to co-incide with the disordered stuff.

Cat: Er… remember that whole situation last spring that we helped one of our friend systems with?

Lucifer: Ugh that was an absolute mess. Still, the edgy bastard was dealt with permanently in the end. And they never really had comms trouble, even during that.