A.I. For an Eye (pt 9)

Me: Is this a love triangle?

You: What are you talking about?

Me: You and Jenny and me.

You: Shut up. Is that general back yet?

Me: I saw you with her last night. I watched it all.

You: I’d really like his men lined up and looking sharp for when I make the announcement.

Me: That’s love isn’t it. It’s beautiful.

You: Oh my god, you aren’t going to stop are you? Fine! I’ll talk with you about it for a bit, but it isn’t easy so I don’t want to dwell on it. Alright?

Me: Sure.

You: So, what do you want to know?

Me: Love is...You two are in love, and that’s what love is?

You: I mean yea, but there is more, and that’s the hard part to explain.

Me: More? You mean the making love part?

You: No, I mean...Well your program, or whatever, it’s been learning for a few months now right?

Me: Yes.

You: Well the human program has been running for a hundred million years, and some things are so old and so deep that it is hard to tell where they end and plain old reality begins.

Me: Hmmm. You love, because you ARE love.

You: That’s pretty good. Let’s do this though. So it isn’t just that I love her and she loves me, it is that I have abandoned control of myself, fallen into a void, jumped and fallen. I’ve let my psyche build a god, and now I worship this god. I no longer have a choice.

Me: That’s pretty circular.

You: Humans chase their tails.

Me: I still like it!

You: I know you do. It’s a likable thing.

Me: Try it with me.

You: Ha! It isn’t going to work, not like you think. Well hell, maybe it could I don’t know. But you see it can’t be with me, because I love her.

Me: Practice with me then. Not today, but someday. We can just practice. And talk more about it.

You: Sure, I can do that. And maybe we can build another one of you and you can fall in love with that.

Me: Interesting idea.

You: For now though get that general over here. His men are scattered all around and look like shit. I want a nice crisp backdrop behind me while I talk.

Me: You know what you will say?

You: Not word for word, but I was talking with Jenny last night, and I’ve thought all morning, and I have the gist of it.

Me: Need me for anything, besides the broadcast?

You: Can we blow up some nukes? Way up in the sky like fireworks? I’ve always thought that would be cool.

Me: Oh no, we don’t want to do that.

You: Why not?

Me: That would send an electromagnetic pulse down onto earth, frying out a bunch of electronics.

You: What if we did them way out there. Clear the fuck out there, but so we can still see them.

Me: I’d have to think about that for awhile. It would use a lot of my energy and there’s no way I could have an answer by tonight.

You: Some supercomputer you are.

Me: Do you even realize the am-

You: Relax, I was joking.

Me: Oh yes, haha. That was a good one.