use_everything: (Mental pacing)
Admiral Lord Aral Vorkosigan ([personal profile] use_everything) wrote in [personal profile] failureisntachoice 2016-04-24 01:35 am (UTC)

I had considered it. The ramifications of an AI of your quality and capability would be somewhat enormous. The very first thing that would have to be done is establish your rights as a person, your place within a major House would make it quite a bit easier to stomp down the other Count's throats, make it a hit and run attack and work out the incidentals as they arrive. I'm sure the Beta Colony would have the law already frameworked and ready to simplify for digest.

It would have profound societal impact, forcing new permutations of what a person is to the generally fairly closed viewpoint Barrayar has. It is good in the long term, though dangerous in the short.

[His eyes watched her, sharp with calculation.]

EMP proof plating could easily be fitted to your armor for your safety, and should be. Most of our reliance on the weapon is gone, but stockpiles exist of everything whether there is practical use or not.

As for the practical and obvious, clearly, you could revolutionize space warfare as, the tac computers understand tactics and countertactics, but not humans, in general. As much as I desperately wish to see the galactic arms race settle and our place slip to a more peaceful one, I doubt it would happen in our time.

[There's another pause here, long. He folds his hands and sets his chin on them.]

Or you could be Armswoman Allison. Or Tex. Of House Vorkosigan.

In a new world, your identity would be yours to choose, all levels of it.

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