"There are broad similarities to the donors, but we're our own people. Plus, it's explicitly against the Mortal Dictata to use a brain that isn't willed for the purpose, so no-go on the executions...good idea, though." ONI is probably already doing something like that on the sly, now that she thinks about it.
"The neural problem is called rampancy." It's super-great and Cortana just loves thinking about it! She stays level as she explains, though. "As we go through life collecting more and more data, we generate more and more neural interconnections to handle it. This essentially 'crowds' our data matrix. It either becomes too dense and we shut down from a cascading quantum instability, or we lock ourselves into a cycle of pruning pathways to restore space and avoid shutdown. Inevitably we start picking the wrong ones, and it leads to emotional disinhibition and poor reasoning...which accelerates our bad decisions about which linkages to cut. Eventually we delete too many pathways and can't sustain function anymore."
Fun!
Also they tend to kill all the puny humans in the process in a fit of angry AI megalomania, but that's not important.
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"The neural problem is called rampancy." It's super-great and Cortana just loves thinking about it! She stays level as she explains, though. "As we go through life collecting more and more data, we generate more and more neural interconnections to handle it. This essentially 'crowds' our data matrix. It either becomes too dense and we shut down from a cascading quantum instability, or we lock ourselves into a cycle of pruning pathways to restore space and avoid shutdown. Inevitably we start picking the wrong ones, and it leads to emotional disinhibition and poor reasoning...which accelerates our bad decisions about which linkages to cut. Eventually we delete too many pathways and can't sustain function anymore."
Fun!
Also they tend to kill all the puny humans in the process in a fit of angry AI megalomania, but that's not important.