space coast pcs: shu

[drymonster]

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[drymonster]

Well, I know how math works, so yeah, I can guess too. It's just insane that we managed to get a perfect split when we wanted to do the opposite of that!

[ if they'd TRIED to coordinate he's sure someone would have fucked it up. ]

You think the ship's some kind of advanced AI that evolved to become a sadist or something, or that someone programmed shit to happen this way?

[roseoftexas]

It probably wasn't difficult. Did you throw your vote?

[ somewhere along the line we will try to coordinate and mess up immensely and i look forward to that day. ]

Dunno. I'm not a techy person -- I do know they don't have brains of their own, no matter what it seems like. If something's gone wrong, it's in the programming, and it might not have been intentional.

[drymonster]

[ shakes his head ]

It's not like a protest vote would help anyone — aside from in this one particular instance, apparently. At worst we could end up on some random person who had nothing to do with it.

[ like him, lmao. he kind of wishes he'd done that this time, though. ]

...I know some AIs, and they, like... even if it's supposedly all algorithms, it can get weird. But this kind of feels more like a deliberate human thing, I think. Especially since the company could just stop insisting on this trial shit even if they couldn't stop the actual murders.

[roseoftexas]

That's what I mean though. If people had issues voting for Sheba or Shouxue, they'd have thrown the vote elsewhere, which means tying the vote might've come down to say, four people'c choices. I get it? But if it ends up with someone innocent being thrown into the holding cells, that doesn't help anyone.

[ blunt, but not incorrect. ]

Dunno. The algorithm might've decided that this was a logical course of action, and it's just acting based on that. In which case, we need to figure out how to fix it.

[drymonster]

...Yeah. I think we're on the same page there.

[ he's so out of his genre here that it might not seem like it, but he is considered to be the calculating and pragmatic one in his own world. ]

It'd help if we had any idea where to start looking for what needs to be fixed in the first place.

[roseoftexas]

... It also made it easier to tie their vote too. [ which, hoo boy. looks at today. ]

Yeah, we're just drawing a blank there. Unless we figure something out, we're just going to be repeating this pattern.