4th Enhanced Truth [Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

So. Has anyone out there actually bothered to examine these wings properly? Considering the inevitable amount of comments they get to one degree or another, I'm guessing none of you have them naturally. It doesn't seem like anyone has bothered to do a medical study, either, if your primary source of information on them is anything to go by.

If you'd like to prove me pleasantly wrong, go right ahead. It would be nice to underestimate someone for a change. Otherwise, well. I'm taking volunteers.

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[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

I would not dare to assume I would interrupt the march of progress simply by being absent.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

In that case I suppose some congratulations are in order. You have just proven yourself to be smarter than most of the scientists I have previously worked with, and Aperture Science prides itself on hiring the most brilliant minds in the world. Then again, being smart and intelligent often can be considered two almost entirely different things. So don't necessarily think too much of it.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

As I have met brilliant idiots and foolish geniuses, I will have to agree.

...

This is the second time you have mentioned 'Aperture Science'. What is this organization? It is from you world, yes?

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

Aperture Science is the company that owns the testing facility I previously oversaw. It's because of them that I was created.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

So you are, in fact, an artificial intelligence. I wasn't certain if that was the case, or if you were using some text to speech program for the sake of privacy.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

No, I can quite assure you I'm not another one of you humans. I was in fact the world's most advanced supercomputer, though I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually still the case, all things considered.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

An advanced artificial intelligence and super computer...and the Malnosso either has no use for you, or cannot control you, or finds you too dangerous to entrust with anything that it is they do.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

[ W E L P ]

There's also a very real possibility that they're just too stupid to realize what they've gotten their hands on. It wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

It would be par the course for them, at least from what I have come to understand.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

Considering the drastic gap between technology they appear to be using and concepts they seem to understand, my current hypothesis is that they stole their technology from someone else. Then again, it wouldn't be the first time humans have built something they don't fully understand. Any nonzero probability is always possible.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

That begs the question of who it is they could have stolen it from? Those that were here before, someone else that this world might have pulled to it? I...do not think they built everything that they use. They seem unfamiliar with the entirety of it's effects, at least from what I have read.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

There is a strong chance it appeared here for the same reason I did. A highly unlikely quantum event which just happens to be disturbingly common within this general location. Well. It wouldn't be the first time I've been faced with the possibility of the laws of physics no longer applying.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

As you are more experienced with such things than the rest of us, it should no doubt offer a useful perspective when it comes to understanding this place. Of everyone in the village it would take a supercomputer to make sense of the many variables in the way, time, and world from which people are pulled here. You'd be the only one with the ability to calculate it with any measure of accuracy, at the very least.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

While your assessments are accurate, I will still point out that if this is any sort of attempt at flattery, it will get you nowhere. [ ... Okay, maybe with enough of the right flattery you could make your way slightly lower on the list of "order in which to kill everyone with neurotoxin". But not much more than that. ] But my present priorities lie with discovering more about the mandatory implants of these wings. I'm afraid your area of interest will have to wait.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

Why would I want to flatter an artificial intelligence? Flattery is for humans that can be moved by such things, and I do not use it with them either.

What I've found most curious about he wings is that they are grafted to all but wild animals and pets. I cannot help but wonder if there is a baseline for intelligence or another variable involved in this.

[Voice]

[haveiliedtoyou]

Your conjecture has been recorded and will be brought under scrutiny at a more convenient time. Determining their properties is currently a higher priority.

[Voice]

[fleurdesel]

Of course. I will see you when the tests begin.