anonymous text;

[mathemagier]

For those of you with superhero/code names, how were they decided?

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[brushoff]

What would your work be then?

[mathemagier]

Disaster relief.

[brushoff]

Exactly how?

[mathemagier]

Remote programming.

[brushoff]

I was a classics major, my anonymous friend, you'll have to explain a bit more than that.

[mathemagier]

Essentially it amounts to remotely altering objects. Size, shape, density, etc.

[brushoff]

So can you change things over video?

[mathemagier]

Once I have its precise location and dimensions, yes.

[brushoff]

Well that sounds like a lot of work! I hope that was a porter given power and not something you had from home.

[mathemagier]

I was an adept programmer in my world, although it did nothing more than apply to the machines I used it with. I've found a way to supplement the requirements so that it works relatively easily.

[brushoff]

Let me guess, computers? I worked with a computer programmer back in my world—of course, that was in the 1960s so his work in AI was miles behind what we have now.

[mathemagier]

Yes.

[And giant robots but that's telling]

I'm sure his work was fascinating. I wish I'd had more time to pursue developing AI myself.

[brushoff]

Speaking from experience? Don't. The AI was more trouble than it was worth.

[mathemagier]

I have every intention of pursuing it again as a personal project should I be returned home.

[Not listening. Reawakened Turing fanboy in progress]

[brushoff]

You science types! You never learn when to stop, do you.

[ don't tell Dorian that, he slept with an Alan Turing knockoff in his world. ]

[mathemagier]

[Hermann would be so jealous]

How else would we make breakthroughs?

[brushoff]

[ neener neener neener ]

Carefully?

[mathemagier]

We are often very careful and have many fail-safes in place.

Of course there are some that don't.

[Like Newton]

[brushoff]

There are always those that live dangerously. Of course, when you're a classics major, your living dangerously is less dangerous than the person with an AI.

[mathemagier]

And that person is living less dangerously than someone with an alien.

lmao did you mean "with an AI?"

[brushoff]

We're just going to be arguing about this until the cows come home, aren't we mystery person.

nah just saying xenobiologist was too obviously Newt

[mathemagier]

Probably.

[He practically has a doctorate in debate]

aaaaaah gotcha

[brushoff]

Well, I don't know anything about your aliens, but if you ever want to talk about AIs, you know who I am. Come off anon and shoot me a message.

[mathemagier]

You know a good deal about them then?

[Tempting]

[brushoff]

Well I've interacted with one—that counts, right?