21 days until deadline.Investigate the problems with the Quantum brains and fix them for the MKII
Begin designing remote controlled bodies for use by quantum brained.
Situation Report:
Digitalization of the brain has been accomplished, as well as weapons-grade particle beams. Artificial muscles of more or less satisfactory performance have been made.
I believe I can achieve easily mass-produced high-quality super-soldiers via the copying of the mind of a single satisfactory template supersoldier, possibly setting up production lines of several different types based on soldiers with different specialities.
Modularity of the design, so that the supersoldiers are suited for all types of combat terrain is another goal.
The company is fine. Freedom in my work is enjoyable.
Future projects I might enjoy working on: Self-Improving AI
The issue with quantum brains is their memory. The device works otherwise fine, but 66% of memory units are broken. Comparison with functional ones reveals that
all memory units are damaged to some degree. Functional ones are not gone all the way yet, so that's why they work at all. It appears your qubits have limited read/write access. Every write and read damages qubit little more. This is a major problem. You have to redesign parts of the quantum brain entirely. Fortunately it doesn't seem terribly large job.
Remote body is actually fairly simple. You already have exoskeleton, so all you need to do is to adapt the design to accept signals from external source. Brain probably needs feedback too, so two way communication is what you want. Remote control does have a problem though, opponent can capture signal, jam it, decode it and use it against you.
Research in progress:
Quantum brain II
Remote controlled body
To be researched:
EMP hardening
Modular design
Research done:
Armored exoskeleton structure
Artificial muscles
Digital brain copy
Electricity driven cells
Particle beam
Meshanite
Myomers
High capacity fuel cell
Quantum brain
Miniature fission reactor
Meshanite production line
High density capacitors
Test subjects expired: 19
Keep on this project.
Using information gathered from various diseases affecting memory you devise a methology to erase and prevent recalling personal memories. This means that incorporated brain keeps access to full range of various information it has learned during its life, such as mathematics, laws of physics, reading human expressions and so on, but it cannot recall anything
personal. This way you don't need separate database to define every single thing in the universe. It may be problematic if brain has incorrect information, but with multiple brains you can provide redundancy, kind of democratic override.
Research in progress:
Slave brain array
To be researched:
Mind to machine interface - canine adaptation
Mind merging
Artificial muscles
Exoskeleton
Advanced medical procedures
Optical camouflage
Overclocked biology
Research done:
Stable weapon attachment point and remote aiming designator
Mind to machine interface
Dreamstream
MMI - Data Diver
Test subjects expired: 50 (100)
Other victims: 35
Journal Entry Extract; D-Day+3: stayincontrolstayincontroldon'tpanicstayincontrolstayincontroleverythingwillbefinejuststayincontrolandwriteeverythingdown...
Sorry.
OPERATION: GARDEN OF DELIGHTS
Step Six: the calm before the storm. Impress the need to stay in control in the subject, and impress it well.
OPERATION: ALL-SEEING EYE
Step Five: run the same tests I did at the start of the experiment, testing the success of improved reaction times and learning ability.
OPERATION: MOUSEWATCH 2016
Step Nine, cont'd: the idea is to check how the neurons have grown and what the connections turned out to be according to my working theory of nervous system design. Do they match predicted growth processes? Compare all groups of mice with the human subject's growth across many models, utilize working neuron theory to get a model of the neuronal control mechanism - for instance, what synapses activate it - stimulatory, inhibitory, modulatory, some other type or even some heretofore unseen kind.
In essence, analyze Terrible Glory from microscopic data on how the neurons have connected to the module and combine this with fMRIs and EEGs of living implanted mice (including the nonfunctional one) to get a clearer picture of what exactly is happening in their brains. Hook a mouse with a no-explosion design to an EEG and keep it well fed, checking brain electrical activity.
Step Ten: replicate the model design that didn't allow physical manifestations. Derive potential functionality of associated neurons and integrated modules based on current understanding of brain workings.
SITUATION REPORT:
Achievements: working theory of nervous system design and understanding, makes for easy design of brain implants with relatively high success rates and relatively minimal rejection. A basic hive mind has been developed, but has low multitasking capability in current edition. Several basic treatments increasing basic cognitive and neurological parameters have been shown to work. A working method for hardwired brainwashing has also been developed. Finally, Terrible Glory - high destructive potential, but poorly understood.
Research directions: understanding Terrible Glory, developing working model on harnessing cranial sorcery, combining with hive mind technology, iterating on hive mind technology, integration of all technologies into a working whole.
OPERATION: GARDEN OF DELIGHTSAs day progresses your volunteering soldier reports increasingly distressing sensations. This "hearing" gets worse, kinda musical in sense of having a pattern, but not musical in anyway he could explain. Recalling the report from previous human experiment you get direct video contact with him and spend long time telling him to stay in control, "you are the master of your mind, the captain of your soul" so stop freaking out and keep calm. The few guards near him make a report of having hallucinations and vacate the area immediately knowing what is coming (but of course leaving few high quality cameras watching it from safe distance). He lasts approximately two minutes longer in this state before than the first human subject.
You are in excellent position to watch what actually happens next. Camera shows how light is starting to shine from within his skull, first through most thin parts (eyes, ears) and then video call ends. "Connection lost", says the computer. Other video feeds from personel closer to your soldier shows flash of light and then it is all normal. Except a large cylinderic area centered around your soldier is gone. Few meters deep hole in ground and clear cut edges of his trailer home is a telltale message.
Congratulations, you are the first one to kill your volunteering soldier!
OPERATION: ALL-SEEING EYEReaction times are slightly higher with this group, but not enough to attribute the difference to hivemind module. It could be they were better from the very beginning. Ability to learn is measurable better as long as studied subjects are reasonably similar or different facets of same subject. Otherwise it is suffers from multitasking failure. Of course it learns quickly even in the latter case, but not as fast someone with learning boost should.
OPERATION: MOUSEWATCH 2016So all these mouse experiments were actually "Terrible Glory - Analysis" which has been sitting in todo list few days? You should have said that clearly, because I haven't rolled a single thing for that. If that was your purpose then I'll just give results to you.
Neurons grew perfectly according your design(s). It's a little hard to tell from those hard boiled ones, but that's how it goes. Combining data from mouse brains and your theory you figure it out. Mostly. Terrible Glory is a three part design: First part is the
DBBC, which appears to be mostly superfluous in sense that it doesn't really contribute anything for the whole. It takes instructions from second part, but otherwise is useless. Well, you could take that part separately and turn it absolutely secure communication channel no one can listen to. The second part is the one you didn't quite understood while driving to your new laboratory, but it now you can tell it functions like a receiver, an antenna. What it receives it transmits to other parts of the module and the brain. Where it receives signals from, that you cannot tell. It doesn't listen any form of electromagnetic radiation or really anything you can identify which is baffling, there's
nothing you cannot identify!
Which brings you to the third part, the largest and most complex one. Based on your theory you figure it uses something (willpower, power of mind, desire...?) to overwrite or ignore whole set of laws of physics and move matter. The problematic part is that you can't tell where it moves. It takes all instructions from the receiver part, the area to be moved relative to itself, its shape and size, coordinates where it should be moved and so on. It's all purpose ...totally not a teleporter. That word is so unscientific. Adjustable Remote Matter Transporter?
Research in progress:
Weird experiments?
To be researched:
Hivemind testing
Research done:
Improved coordination
Improved cooperative bonding
Improved learning ability
Improved reaction times II
Terrible Glory + Analysis
Hive mind
Brain killswitch
Incentive module
Major Technologies:
NERVOUS SYSTEM DESIGN AND UNDERSTANDING
Test subjects expired: 35
Other victims: 8
Volunteers killed: 1
report:
I have developed a layered lightweight armor material, that could be used as a next-generation cloth, An anti-matter power plant, which could revolutionize commercial power, Magnetic acceleration tracks, which could be used to efficiently move huge amounts of cargo overland, And a powered exo-suit, witch could revolutionize the heavy labor field. Also under development a military grade shape-memory alloy.
Ah, the solution you come up this time is brilliant. As it is with all other SMAs, this alloy too is created in high temperatures and rapidly cooled, but unlike others, it doesn't need very high temperatures for restoring its shape. An unlike others, this metal doesn't suffer micro damage from repeated reformings. Additionally it can be "programmed" with multiple forms by applying low voltage alternating current on different frequences while having at temperatures it in near melting point. Different shapes can be accessed with minor heating and the AC frequency associated with the form. Stability of forms scales reversedly with number of forms. Four shapes programmed means all them will have malformations. Add ten and none of them will form anywhere right.
SMA scales have not been produced or applied on the exoskeleton yet.
Research in progress:
To be researched:
Reverse chemical formulation
Improved training speeds
Intelligence increasing treatments
Research done:
Layered lighweight armor
Matter annihilation power plant
Dead man's switch
Rail-guns
Exoskeleton
Military armor grade shape-memory alloy
Test subjects expired: 6
Automated research
The most truest cybernetic limb ever seen on this planet is completed. It can't get more true than this. Electrically boosted musculatory, modified biology to repair mechanical parts and modified mechanisms to repair biological parts! Redundancies! The true fusion of two type technologies! Combined form is better than either individually! Well, not exactly. Three centimeters of steel plate stops bullet better than reinforced skin, but steel plate doesn't repair itself nor does it reduce force of impact by being flexible.
Research in progress:
To be researched:
Brain integrated chips - Improved reaction speed
Brain integrated chips - Imprinted knowledge
Killing emotions
Associate obedience with joy
Researched done:
Reaction time study
Optical camouflage
Mobile holoprojector
High density battery
Dazzleball
Extended camouflage
Coilgun
Shock absorbent lining
True cyber limbs
Major Technologies:
True fusion of biological and mechanical technology
Test subjects expired: 20
I'm renaming the particle "Confundium." Because it is confounding my efforts at control.
I continue to attempt to interact with confundium. attempt, in particular, to use it to prevent friction from altering the kinetic momentum.
As for energy, well now I want to build a research and collection lab in close orbit around the sun, and channel solar energy into a matter conversion process.
that sounds prohibitive though.
Perhaps I should chalk the whole railgun idea up as a loss, and switch to stealth and indirect attacks, using the nanobots in different ways.
For now, yes, let's work on camouflage. Adaptive coloring, spreading the nanobots thin, that kind of thing.
Howdy. I've made nanobots and shoved some brains into robotic life support and mobility units. I'm attempting to develop railguns, but the energy requirements are high. SO I've been attempting to develop energy sources, but the energy needed to develop those is higher still. Likewise, lasers and masers are outside my reach. I expect, ultimately, to make a resilient nanobot soldier, capable of infiltration, espionage, direct combat, and widespread destruction.
I might like to work on cosmic power sources capable of propelling our civilization to rank 2 on the Kardashev scale, post human life, (including cybernetics, and the Singularity), and an imaging software system that can determine if the image it sees contains a bird. Be warned, any of these projects could potentially alter the way in which our company does business, to some extent.
Don't let confundium confound you any more! Understand it! Think like it thinks! That's what you tell yourself on this morning, although that thinking part was a little pointless. Particles don't think. That's function reserved for complex systems only. But it probably helps because you make actual progress. Confundium particle, the little gobshite, is a pesky thing to control. So many ways to control them, but so little anything universal. Magnetic fields, for example, directly work with confundium particles but only in context of other magnetic materials. But if you ramp magnetics up to eleven (also known as magnetar levels), they affect on pretty much everything. So magnets are, suprisingly, your way to victory. Study and mathematical models prove some interesting insights. For example duration of manipulation correlates exponentially with energy requirements. Instantaneous changes would be most energy efficient.
Of course you won't be using magnets to manipulate confundium. That would be just silly.
And giving nanobots camouflage is not particularly hard. Simply give them with few basic colors on each side and have outer layer rotate on demand, producing effect much like all displays produce millions colors just from tree basic ones. But reshaping nanite body to match enviroment requires a bit more work. Like on fly analysis of ground shape, colors and enviromental effects. If you can get those right, then your robot can perfectly blend basically everywhere. Or the body can. Braincases, weapons, and other power production devices are much harder to hide. Of course you could always get soldier to improvise and cover stuff with nanite formations imitating natural rocks.
Research in progress:
Manipulation of Confundium
Camouflage
To be researched:
Railguns
Multibrain control systems - fixes
Lasers
Nanobot production: Extended raw materials
Armor
Distributed neural networks
Swarm bots
Hunter drones
Large scale modularity
Research done:
Nerve interface
Brain in a jar
Meshanite
Myomers
Highly volatile fuel
Robotic body
!!Multibrain control systems!!
Corrosion resistance
Major Technologies:
Nanomachines
Self construction
Self destruction
Electric manipulation
Kinetic shielding
Structural support
Gray Goo Limited EditionTM
Corrosion resistance
Test subjects expired: 19
Let's get that nutrient slurry going!
Situation Report:
Though we still have more than half the allotted time left, I have already pushed the boundaries of science and created things that I am tremendously proud of.
My main project is creating a supersoldier beginning with the body. Currently I have designed three different bodies - effectively new creatures designed chromosomes-up, more specialized for combat than anything nature could create. My immediate plans are to grow them to full size, test their individual capabilities, and then select the most promising to transplant my soldier's brain into. He will then be outfitted with biological defense mechanisms and specialized equipment to make him more dangerous than any human.
I have made other promising discoveries in my research that currently support the supersoldier project in some way, but could be refined for significant benefits in other areas. You have already seen one of these - my healing virus - and I hope the results have impressed you. I have another virus codenamed panacea, which boosts the immune system to superhuman levels and can be used to prevent rejection of donor limbs and organs. Panacea currently creates a dependency in anyone injected, but this could potentially be prevented after further research and modification.
If the Company hires me after this event, I see myself specializing in medical technologies, beginning by perfecting these viruses and potentially creating similar ones. Given how much I've accomplished in my time here so far, I think together we could benefit humanity greatly. I hope you will consider hiring me permanently.
Over and out,
Ivana Rosecrans
Composition of nutrient slurry itself is no brainer, you know exactly what it needs. However production and constant oxygenation is the problematic part. You have an idea to design a small creature for sole purpose of eating a lot of food and producing constant flow of nutrients, but that has exactly the same problem: chicken or the egg? Because it too would need nutrient slurry to grow rapidly and if you had way to produce it you wouldn't need it in the first place. The answer seems to lie in direction of mechanical engineering, which is quite radical change from your current biological focus.
Although... you could turn a couple of test subjects for the purpose? Remove their superfluous parts and modify important bits more effective? Because all it needs is the digestive system, lungs and heart. Or a lung because it won't need as much oxygen as a whole human. Digestive system needs to be improved, not a single protein is permitted to be wasted. Nervous system must be redesigned fully autonomic. And heart doesn't need to be as strong. It's a little wicked approach, even you have to admit that, but it's not like you haven't killed test subjects before. And that's what really happens to them. Subjects die and you harvest and reuse some of their organs.
Well, that's all good. You start planning full extent of required changes and prepare constructing a virus responsible implementing genetic changes.
You monster. I suppose I too am a monster.
Research in progress:
Nutrient slurry
To be researched:
Post-implantation adaptation
Research done:
Targeted hyper cancer
Inline DNA manipulation
Artificial Siamese Twins
Monster maker
Rapid healing
Extra bodypart attachments
Panacea - Immune system replacer
New nerve pathways
DNA: Codename Tarantula
DNA: Codename Brutus
DNA: Codename Chimera
Major Technologies:
CELL MANIPULATION AND LARGE SYSTEMS DESIGN
Test subjects expired: 35
Consider the ways in which a mad scientist's lab is similar to Santa's workshop. A secretive guy with an obnoxious laugh sits on his ass for most of a year, having nothing but ideas and orders for his troop of probably paid helpers who actually do all the work for him, while he gets all the credit when he delivers the fruits of their sweat, tears and sometimes blood, to the waiting hands of people he considers "good" by some twisted internal metric.
It's true that the CSE work is mostly theoretical without the hardware to run it on. Therefore today work will continue to develop the fractal supercomputing hardware alongside the consciousness simulator that will run on it.
In the short periods of rest I allow myself to prevent an overheat of both my laptop and my mental faculties, browse the net for sensor packages I could purchase, including optics, thermals, sound, ultrasonic mapping, and passive and active radar. They will have to be miniaturized and adapted for use, but it will be easier to do once I have good examples to work off of.
And check on the health and current activities of the assistant I accidentally got injured. It may be irrational and unexpected for a mad scientist, but I do pay attention to the well-being of my subordinates, and being injured in an accident I was the direct cause of sort of singles you out for attention.
Despite a few accidents and numerous setbacks, including an attempt at sabotage by one of my rivals, our lab's project seems to continue on good track. Roughly two thirds of the physical portion of the prototype unit is completed and ready for mass production, work is beginning in earnest on the "mental" portion of it, with some tentative progress.
Our lab's approach to research is resulting in a number of individually useful technologies, that I am sure will benefit both humanity, science, all forms of industry, and of course the Company, to a significant extent. We've developed a lightweight superalloy with properties that make it ideal for military and aerospace applications, as well as industrial components and structural engineering. We've also developed powerful, energy-efficient myomer musculature that will revolutionize robotics in all forms, and have applications in medical prosthetics, combat powersuits, consumer and military robotics, and even more structural engineering. Even self-tying shoelaces. The possibilities are enormous.
Some technologies may be harder to market, due to being more special in nature. A heavy-duty regenerative lubricant for robotics and industrial applications, a high-efficiency fuel cell generator designed to run on very dense, but highly dangerous fuel. Other technologies are just not finished or tested yet, such as the mind-to-machine interface that's only undergoing its first practical test in a few days.
Upcoming research will focus on a particular branch of AI design that I do not think has been attempted before. Only time and results will show whether it is a practical approach, but one can't dismiss the potential implications in the event of success. Humanity as we know it may never again be the same.
Overall, we're slightly behind, but doing our best to keep working. The resources the Company provides us with are wonderful, and we hope to not only make a quality product for the upcoming testing, but also accumulate a wealth of technologies that will result in a betterment of humanity, science, and the world as a whole, and of course a wealth of wealth for the Company, as the sole supplier of those technologies.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. In all likelyhood Santa was a mad scientist with good intentions, but fucked up something. Governments worldwide covered it up and invented the tale of immortal dude acting up once a year to deliver gifts. Actually maybe Santa might be still doing it and governments are unable to stop him? How could an avarage human stop super smart person like yourself? Only with supreme firepower early enough when ginus doesn't have defenses put up. Maybe that's what various poorly explained wars were about? And, you know, NORAD
is tracking Santa every December. Maybe they are lying about lying? What's better place to hide truth than in plain view?
Maybe, just maybe, Santa is trying to locate and collect his fellow super geniuses under flag of united brotherhood of MAXIMUM SCIENCE!
That's canon now, by the way.
You don't need to purchase anything. The Company provides everything. Just name it and you shall have it. But don't ask for Moon. You can't have that.
The girl is healed, but is currently undergoing thorough health examination. She will get paid sick leave for a week or two and then maybe reassigned to some other job, although the agent doesn't actually mention that last bit. Being severely wounded by your boss, even accidentally, doesn't make it easy to return no matter how intellectually you handle it.
...And I see you still haven't appeased RNG. It pains me to see this utter hatred towards your work. I don't know what to say.
Research in progress:
Non-Newtonian Kinetic Protection - outsourced, molecular simulation
Prototype body - outsourced, assistants
Consciousness Simulation Engine
Customized personal supercomputer
Research to do:
Bionic Brain Matter
Wetware AI
Superalloy weakness
Research completed:
Structural skeleton
Myomers
Muscle layout
Cooling
Molecular simulation
High capacity fuel cell
Wear protection
Knowledge Database
Man Machine Interface
Other victims: 1
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