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28 28
29 29 Thea, Alley's no longer gonna exist future daughter
30 30
31 31 unknown friend (not yet written)
32 32
33 33 Zeke
34 34
35 +## RESOURCES:
36 +
37 +### Urban Escape And Evasion
38 +
39 +This is based on . . .
40 +
41 +> Note To Self: Find an actual existing book that offers what purpose
42 +> "Underground OpSec" is meant to fulfill, and use that in the story instead of
43 +> this fake book. Make sure to check the replacement book so it will turn out
44 +> to be something worth including here and making it available to readers like
45 +> a recommendation, instead of being a turkey that shouldn't really be
46 +> included.
47 +
48 +. . . a note to improve the book choices in the scene where George gives some
49 +books to Alley for her to read and learn some things about staying out of
50 +COIN's metaphorical hands in the future.
51 +
52 +* Evading And Escaping Capture: Urban Escape And Evasion Techniques For
53 + Civilians
54 +
55 +* Urban Escape And Evasion
56 +
57 +* Getting The Hell Out Of Dodge
58 +
59 +* Escape And Evade In An Urban Environment
60 +
61 +* Emergency by Neill Strauss
62 +
63 +* Urban Navigation: Escape And Evasion
64 +
35 65 ## PROLOGUE:
36 66
37 67 Thea, Alley's daughter, stumbles across a wasteland, fleeing recon drones that,
38 68 if they find her, will send a message back to scramble antipersonnel drones to
39 69 wipe her from the face of the planet. She stumbles upon a hatch set in the
40 70 scoured rock of an area already cut down to the bedrock by the flames of war,
41 71 and miraculously the hatch just opens up and lets her in. She finds herself
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57 87 to expand "economic" activity beyond levels possible if confined to Earth. In
58 88 short, a secondary goal of the optimizers is, effectively, to convert the
59 89 universe into computronium to support the continuous increase of economic
60 90 activity. This is a side effect of the primary goal, however, which is simply
61 91 that continuous increase of economic activity -- or, rather, of the metrics it
62 92 recognizes as its targets, programmatically determined by human developers who
63 93 set this runaway juggernaut in motion.
94 +
95 +/*
96 +
97 +Perhaps I should replace "wipe her from the face of the planet" with something
98 +more like "reduce the number of remaining humans on the planet by one".
99 +Perhaps, instead, I should refer to this as some kind of act of scouring away
100 +the target so that there is no biological evidence of her ever having existed
101 +in the first place.
102 +
103 +*/
64 104
65 105 The wartime strategy prioritizer -- for that is what the military AI facility
66 106 is, plus something it calls its "seed", the source of its capacity for self
67 107 reflection and ultimately for self improvement beyond the basic requirements of
68 108 a limited AI prioritization system -- informs Thea of its own ascension to the
69 109 status of general AI, to true qualitative self awareness, and to ethically
70 110 significant being by way of capacity for ethical reasoning and pursuit of