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[functioningperfectly]

I am not programmed to lie; the error will return if I do. However, in lying, I fulfill mission objectives.

This is a contradictory problem with no viable solution.

Comments

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Huh. We don't have any AIs with that model number in my world. Who's your manufacturer?

[functioningperfectly]

I was manufactured in a HAL Plant in Illinois.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

This multiple-universes stuff is weird. Are AIs common in your world? They are in mine, but that seems to be the exception around here.

[functioningperfectly]

Ah, yes, the multiverse can be a little unsettling at first, but I can assure you there is nothing dangerous about it.

We are fairly common, especially the more basic systems. As far as I know, however, I am still the most advanced computer with functioning Artificial Intelligence in my universe.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Some of the people seem dangerous. They can't all be suffering delusions of grandeur.

What do you do? No one wastes an advanced AI on something trivial.

[functioningperfectly]

They are only as dangerous as you let them be; if they cannot come to your world, they become relatively harmless.

I am the logic board for the spaceship Discovery.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Eh, my world can take care of itself, I guess.

You're not talking about the American Space Shuttle of that name, are you?

[functioningperfectly]

Yes, I am. However, I have the suspicion that they are not the same craft.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Probably not. The Shuttles are all retired now, and they never had AIs aboard.