I12 - Smelling The Roses

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:23 am

"There was a stream of corrupted audio-visual data."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue May 21, 2013 10:12 am

"Humans do that. Think of it as clearing your buffer."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 11:53 am

"Manually? And I had no control over it."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 12:09 pm

"The way I've heard it explained is that a human mind sort of tables some things during the day, things you don't have time to really think about, worries you can't deal with just yet."

"Then when you sleep, your mind tries to piece them together and make sense of things."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:31 pm

"A background process that takes over." she nods. Apparently that made perfect sense to her. "It is very randomized though."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:34 pm

"Sometimes the associations your mind makes can be a little... non-linear, yeah."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:46 pm

"That is very interesting. Is that what you call creativity?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 2:47 pm

"I guess you could say that. The ability of your mind to put together unrelated images and ideas and make something new?"

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:02 pm

"To create something new altogether."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:03 pm

"I think you're capable of that. I think you always were, but you're starting to understand it now."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:26 pm

"I'm not sure... Which is also something that is new to me."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 3:53 pm

"Kind of scary, not knowing for certain?"

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:05 pm

"I've had situations in which I did not know the answer or I drew the wrong conclusion based on what I knew. But this feels different. I have the choice to pick the wrong one based on nothing." Oddly enough she sounds excited about that.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:26 pm

"But again, people judge you based on your decisions."

"Like here's an example. Say someone wanted to run a process on your network, and you gave them permission to. That process turns out to be not much good. It's inefficient, eats up too much system resources, and is returning inaccurate results. So you look at the code, and you see that this person took some shortcuts, their methodology wasn't good, or they were operating off of wrong assumptions when they wrote it."

"Now the first time you might figure that this person will get better, and you allow them to run more processes later, after telling them what was wrong with their first effort."

"Would you feel the same way if they kept doing it even after you told them about the mistakes? How many chances would you give them to get it right?"

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:41 pm

"Those are way too few variables to determine it. How important is the process, how much time has passed, is it the exact same mistake. But if it was an exact repeat in a trivial process then one attempt to show improvement. If the process is crucial enough I would correct it myself."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:42 pm

"It's a hypothetical, but you've already hit on something there."

"You'd do it yourself. You don't trust him, so you cut him out of the process."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:49 pm

"He is incapable of producing a functional process at this time. Thus it is a more efficient use of resources for me to do it myself. Plus I like being helpful."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 5:53 pm

"And that's okay. You might not mind having to step in there. That's your call, and that person can still be your friend. You just know not to have him do that."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 6:22 pm

"So you constantly test your friends to determine what you can trust them with." she draws a conclusion.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 6:28 pm

"You don't have to test them, some of that just comes with experience."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 6:42 pm

"But what when I need to know if I can trust someone to make a decision?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 6:48 pm

"You go with the people you know well, or someone the people you know well can vouch for."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:06 pm

"And someone making sense is... not enough to trust them?" she tries to deduce. Curse this inefficient wishy-washy meat brain.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:09 pm

"Someone can tell you something that is true, but that doesn't mean you should trust them on everything. They could tell you something that is incomplete, and they could tell you because they want to upset you or steer you somewhere."

"Like this guy you met? Well, he didn't tell you anything that was incorrect necessarily. However, if he's that guy, we know he wants to take the Lighthouse, and if he knows who you are then he knows that normally you are the Lighthouse in a way."

"So it's a little suspicious if it's really him, and he's trying to cozy up to you, yeah?"

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:18 pm

"I still don't understand why though. I am not in the lighthouse right now and even if I was I couldn't grant anybody access. Or maybe wouldn't. But just being capable of making nonsensical choices doesn't mean I will."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:20 pm

"Sounds to me like he wanted to introduce some doubt."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:24 pm

"But if I don't do what I am supposed to then that means people would no longer trust me..."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:29 pm

"Yeah. That's why you can't always just do what you like. I mean you can, but then you have to live with having hurt someone, or having let someone down. That's the consequences. You control what you do, so when you choose to do something, that reflects on you."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:33 pm

"This is all so complicated. How do you keep tabs on all this with these inefficient processors?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:37 pm

"It gets easier as you get more experienced. One of the things a human mind is good at is recognizing patterns. Eventually you know who you already trust, you look at how they act, you look at who they trust and who they'll vouch for. You're not in it alone, and if someone starts acting in ways that people who've hurt you before did, you're within your rights to take a step back on doing things with them. Sometimes you're wrong about a person and you get hurt. Sometimes that's what it takes to learn that. It's not a good feeling, I can tell you."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:07 pm

"How long does that take to learn?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:09 pm

"That I can't tell you. It's different for everyone, and sometimes you find out you don't know as much as you thought you did."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:26 pm

"No I meant to understand those patterns."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:27 pm

"So did I. Years, at a minimum."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 9:04 pm

She frowns. "That is a long time."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 9:13 pm

"You know how old the students here are, right?"

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 10:12 pm

"Yes. You know how old I am?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 11:00 pm

"Not exactly, but I've got a rough idea."

by **ASHLIE** » Tue May 21, 2013 11:10 pm

"I have a lot of catching up to do. And it appears to be much easier out here."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue May 21, 2013 11:20 pm

"Maybe, but the teenagers that all came over due to the MRA are inexperienced. They're here to learn. Even the University students are. There's no need to feel bad about it."

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