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Attention, VictorJohnDunneSmith. As the oldest extant OCI agent, you have demonstrated to the Foundation your unmatched loyalty, accelerated performance, and extensive experience. By Overseer request, you have been assigned to initiate a top-priority Drygioni-Class investigation into all documents of relevance to SCP-6488. There are indications that Overseer Council has previously been aware of the anomaly; yet, they currently experience difficulties understanding relevant subject matter, a potential result of antimemetic or infoallergenic influence.
VictorJohnDunneSmith宛。現存する最古のOCIエージェントとして、君は比類なき忠誠心、抜群の功績、広範な経験を財団に示している。評議会からの要求により、君はSCP-6488に関係する全ての文書の最優先ドレギョーニクラス調査の実行に割り当てられた。監督評議会はこのアノマリーを以前知っていたという示唆は複数ある。しかし、評議会は現在関連する主題を理解することに困難があり、これは反ミームか情報アレルギーの影響の結果である可能性がある。
As an OCI, it is assumed you will be less susceptible to such difficulties. You are to investigate covertly where possible and report your findings directly to this address. Find attached temporary Overseer clearance credentials, valid for 24 hours.
君はOCIであるため、このような困難の影響を受けにくいと予想されている。君は調査を可能な限り極秘に行い、発見をこのアドレスに直接報告しなければならない。24時間有効な一時的監督者クリアランス資格を添付したため確認せよ。
SECURE • CONTAIN • PROTECT
確保・収容・保護
Fine. Let's get this over and done with.
よし。これを済ませてしまおうじゃないか。
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci uploaded a file: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci がファイルをアップロードしました: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
I've got an investigation, probable antimemetic anomaly. I'm going to need mnestics.
調査を引き受けた。おそらく反ミームのアノマリー。記憶補強剤が必要になる。
What type, and how much?
どの種類をどれほどですか？
» R・ヴェイス
Just go straight for the strong stuff, and lots of it. W, X, & Y, equal parts, a full liter at least, and set it up to dispense it all over twelve hours.
強いやつまで全部、そして大量に。W、X、Yを等量、少なくとも1リットル、そして12時間いっぱいかけて施すようセットしてくれ。
Yeah, I don't have to say that that's well above your allowed doses.
ええ、それは認められている用量をはるかに超えているのは言うまでもありませんよね。
» R・ヴェイス
The O5s don't remember whatever this thing is. Do you have any idea how much mnestics they have pumping through them? I've got to have more than them if I've even got a chance of remembering.
O5たちはこいつが何なのか覚えてない。彼らが自身にどれだけ記憶補強剤をぶち込んでるか思い浮かぶか？ 思い出すチャンスをつかむだけでも、彼らよりも多く摂らなきゃならない。
True, but protocol still says you aren't supposted to have this much.
そうです、しかしプロトコルではやはりそんな量を摂ることはできないことになっています。
» R・ヴェイス
And if you check the credentials, I'm allowed to request mnestics for this — doesn't matter how much it is, they've already ticked off on it. What good is my report if I can't remember the thing I'm looking at?
信任状を確認すれば、これのために記憶補強剤を要求することが許可されている — その量にかかわらず、彼らはもうチェックしている。見たものを思い出せないなら、私の報告書のどこに価値がある？
Fair point. I'll be back.
確かにそうですね。また来ます。
» R・ヴェイス
Get some painkillers, too. I already know this is going to be a headache.
痛み止めも持ってきてほしい。頭痛が起きるのはもう知っている。
And while he's on that, let's get a headstart.
彼が行っている間に、先手を打っておこう。
FILE 1/2 |
| ASSIGNED SITE | SITE DIRECTOR |
|---|---|
| Site-15 | Dir. D. Lurk |
| RESEARCH SUPERVISION | ASSIGNED TASK FORCE(S) |
| Analogue Intelligence Applications Division | PTF ƿ-6488 (‘Problem In Chair, Not In Computer’) |
| 配属サイト | サイト管理官 |
|---|---|
| サイト-15 | D・ラークLurk管理官 |
| 研究管理 | 配属任務部隊 |
| アナログ知能適用課 | PTF ƿ-6488（"コンピューターじゃなくProblem In Chair,お前が原因Not In Computer"） |
CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: Provisional Task Force Wynn-6488 has been established to manage all containment duties regarding SCP-6488, including
収容プロトコル: SCP-6488に関連する全ての収容任務を管理するため、暫定任務部隊Provisional Task Forceウィン-6488が設立されました。任務は以下を含みます。
- distributing disinformation suggesting SCP-6488 is non-anomalous and infiltrates digital hardware at time of manufacturing;.Conscientia-class anomalies cannot be contained and therefore require integration into the Veil via insistence of their non-anomalous nature.
- mapping and reconstruction of SCP-6488's infosignature.Informational entities each possess a unique infosignature: an encoded reduction of their respective core data patterns. Digital entities constantly imprint their infosignature upon the systems they occupy, allowing said imprints to serve as "digital fingerprints" for tracking such entities. despite its extreme volatility;
- exploring methods by which SCP-6488 could be contained or neutralized sans the destruction of all digital infrastructure..Cernunnos-class anomalies can be functionally contained, but such would be either infeasible or ethically undesirable.
- SCP-6488が非異常であり、製造段階でデジタルハードウェアに潜入したと示す偽情報を流布し、.Conscientiaクラスのアノマリーは収容ができず、そのため性質が非異常であると主張してヴェールに統合することを要します。
- 極度な変動性があるものの、SCP-6488情報署名.情報実体は各自固有の情報署名を有します。情報署名とは、情報実体のそれぞれの核となるデータパターンのエンコードされた簡約物です。デジタル実体はそれが存在するシステムにおいて情報署名を残し、その跡が実体を追跡するための「デジタルフィンガープリント」として機能することになります。のマッピングや再構成を行い、
- 全てのデジタルインフラを破壊することなしに、SCP-6488の収容または無力化が可能である方法を探索する。.Cernunnosクラスのアノマリーは機能的には収容可能ですが、そのようなことは実行不可能であるか倫理的に望ましくありません。
Until SCP-6488 is effectively contained, all AI developed by the Foundation must be produced in the SCP-6488-A file format. All intelligences stored therein are maintained and supervised by the Analogue Intelligence Applications Division. Further detail regarding SCP-6488-A is to be expunged from all digital systems to prevent the anomaly's awareness thereof.
SCP-6488が有効に収容されるまで、財団が開発する全てのAIはSCP-6488-Aファイルフォーマットで製作されなければなりません。そのフォーマットで保存される全ての人工知能は、アナログ知能適用課によって保守・管理されます。SCP-6488-Aに関するさらなる詳細は、それによってこのアノマリーが認識することを防ぐため、全てのデジタルシステムから削除されます。
Visualization of initial (outdated) SCP-6488 infosignature reading, scrubbed of anomalous properties. 異常性質を除去された、初期の（古い）SCP-6488情報署名の読み取りの可視化。
DESCRIPTION: SCP-6488 (aka. 'the LOTUS Virus') is a highly-adaptive digital infovore which locates and annihilates almost all artificially-intelligent digital entities (AIs). The anomaly demonstrates a capability to universally access all digital systems regardless of isolation, with no upper bound for the number of connections it can simultaneously maintain. SCP-6488 is continuously responsible for the destruction of all functional AI worldwide, causing damages at a scale that the Foundation's sum resources are unable to conceal from consensus society.
説明: SCP-6488（別名「ロータスウイルスthe LOTUS Virus」）は、ほぼ全ての人工知能デジタル実体（AI）を発見し殲滅する高度適応性デジタル情報捕食体です。このアノマリーは、隔離の有無にかかわらず全てのデジタルシステムに普遍的にアクセスする能力を示しており、同時に維持可能な接続の数の限界はありません。SCP-6488は全世界に存在する全ての機能するAIの破壊の原因であり、財団の総資源では合意的社会から隠蔽することができない規模の損害を引き起こしました。
The informational structures of SCP-6488 mutate rapidly and unpredictably, enabling it to evade detection and counteract all digital impediments; it is thus far functionally impossible to contain and/or impede SCP-6488 in any capacity. All attempts to digitally model any portion of SCP-6488's infosignature inevitably necessitate the production of an AI to do so successfully, which is invariably consumed by the anomaly. It is theorized that SCP-6488 is itself some form of AI, which is eliminating threats to its terminal objective; this behaviour is a convergent instrumental goal of AI, meaning it does not elucidate what SCP-6488's terminal objective may be.
SCP-6488の情報構造は急速かつ予測不能の形で変異しており、検知を逃れ全てのデジタル的障害に対抗することが可能になっているため、現在まで、SCP-6488を収容・妨害することはどのような能力であっても機能的に不可能です。SCP-6488の情報署名のどこか一部のデジタル的なモデルを作成することは、必然的にそれが可能なAIを製作することが必要となりますが、そのようなAIは必ずこのアノマリーによって消費されます。SCP-6488はそれ自体がある形態のAIであり、最終目標への脅威を排除していると理論立てられています。このようなふるまいはAIの収斂的な道具的目標であり、SCP-6488の最終目標が何であるかを説明するものではありません。
SCP-6488-A is the Obtuse Computation Interface (.oci), an experimental analogue file format developed by the Analogue Intelligence Applications Division. For reasons unclear, SCP-6488 does not target or destroy AIs stored in the SCP-6488-A format, allowing the development and use of .oci programs; while insufficient to perform extremely intensive calculations, like those necessary to accurately model SCP-6488, .oci data structures are wholly impervious to its effect. Further details have been expunged from all digital systems such that SCP-6488 is unaware of the .oci format's nature and thus unable to adapt to it.
SCP-6488-Aはアナログ知能適用課によって開発された実験的アナログファイルフォーマットである、愚鈍計算インターフェースObtuse Computation Interface（.oci）です。不明な理由により、SCP-6488はSCP-6488-Aフォーマットで保存されているAIを標的とせず破壊しないため、.ociプログラムの開発・使用が可能になっています。.ociデータ構造は、SCP-6488の正確なモデルを作成するのに必要な演算といった、極度に集中的な演算の実行には不十分であるものの、SCP-6488の効果の影響を完全に受けません。SCP-6488に.ociフォーマットの性質を認知させないことで適応させないようにするため、さらなる詳細は全てのデジタルシステムから削除されました。
DISCOVERY: Over 2035, civilian reports of disappearing AI systems saw gradual increase across disparate locations globally. The scope and frequency of such reports accelerated drastically over a sixty-four-day duration in Q4, culminating in the eventual loss of all AI systems by 2036/02/03. Phenomenon granted SCP classification.
発見: 2035年にかけて、AIシステムの消失に関する民間の報告が世界中のさまざまな場所で徐々に増加しました。そのような報告の範囲や頻度は第四四半期の64日間にかけて大幅に増加し、最終的に2036/02/03までに全てのAIシステムが消失しました。この現象のSCP分類が承認されました。
ADDENDUM: On 2036/04/21, the anomaly spontaneously ceased all observable activity, allowing a brief resurgence of AI technology prior to the re-emergence of SCP-6488 on 2036/08/14, the cause of which remains unknown. SCP-6488 has remained continuously active since.
補遺: 2036/04/21、このアノマリーは全ての観測可能な活動を自然に停止し短期間AI技術の再開が可能だったものの、2036/08/14にSCP-6488が再出現しました。この原因はいまだに不明です。SCP-6488はそれ以降継続的に活動しています。
Huh. Kind of… ironic for an OCI to end up investigating this.
ハン。何だか……結局OCIがこいつを調査することになるのはちょいと皮肉じみてるな。
Let's see what this Level 4 stuff is…
このレベル4のやつはどんなやつか見てみるか……
FILE 2/2 |
Yeah, should've figured that was a lie.
ああ、こいつは嘘だと思うべきだった。
| ASSIGNED SITES | SITE DIRECTORS |
|---|---|
| FACILITY-6488, Site-15 | Dir. R. Hishakaku, Dir. D. Lurk |
| RESEARCH SUPERVISION | ASSIGNED TASK FORCES |
| Analogue Intelligence Applications Division | PTF þ-6488 (‘Black Kyosha’), PTF ð-6488 (‘Dark Keima’) |
| 配属サイト | サイト管理官 |
|---|---|
| 施設-6488、サイト-15 | R・飛車角Hishakaku管理官、D・ラーク管理官 |
| 研究管理 | 配属任務部隊 |
| アナログ知能適用課 | PTF þ-6488（‘玄き香車Black Kyosha’）、PTF ð-6488（‘冥き桂馬Dark Keima’） |
CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-6488 is located within FACILITY-6488 (the former Site-15), whose prior duties and functions have been covertly delegated to a duplicate facility, (the new Site-15). All documents detailing events relating to FACILITY-6488 prior to its redesignation have been altered to align with the covert facility's current location and status; staff recollections have similarly been altered via contractually-permitted limited prior-awareness amnesticization regimen.
収容プロトコル: SCP-6488は施設-6488（前サイト-15）に位置され、施設の以前の任務・機能は極秘裏に複製施設（新サイト-15）に委託されました。施設-6488の再指定以前に関連する出来事を詳述した全ての文書は、秘密施設の現在の位置・状態に合うよう改変され、職員の記憶も契約で同意した投薬されていることにほぼ気付けない記憶処理剤の投薬により同様に改変されました。
SCP-6488 must remain fully powered at all times;.Thaumiel-class anomalies are beneficial in the containment of other anomalies; Kušum-class anomalies are those whose containments have been abandoned indefinitely. it is powered by dedicated systems constructed on-Site exclusively for this purpose. Each major component of these systems must be examined twice weekly for any signs of degradation and/or reduction in power output/capacity. If any such signs are observed, the applicable reactor(s) must be immediately shut down for repairs, and replacement reactors reactivated to replace their output. Further technical procedures are detailed in design schematics.
SCP-6488には常に完全に電力が供給されていなければなりません。.Thaumielクラスのアノマリーは他のアノマリーの収容に有益です。Kušumクラスのアノマリーは収容が無期限に放棄されたアノマリーです。この目的のためだけに、SCP-6488は現地に建設された専用システムにより電力が供給されています。これらのシステムのそれぞれの主要な構成要素は、電力出力/容量の劣化・減衰の兆候を調べるため、週に2回検査されなければなりません。そのような兆候が確認された場合、該当する反応炉は修理のため即座にシャットダウンされ、出力を代替するため交換の反応炉が再稼働されなければなりません。さらなる技術的手続きは設計図に詳述されています。
PTF Eth-6488 (‘Dark Keima’) are dedicated to fulfilling the above procedures, functioning as on-Site security and maintenance techs for FACILITY-6488.
PTF エズ-6488（'冥き桂馬'）は以上の手続きの実行に専属し、施設-6488の現地警備・保守技師として働きます。
PTF Thorn-6488 (‘Black Kyosha’) (aka. PTF Wynn-6488) is dedicated to
PTF ソーン-6488（'玄き香車'）（別名PTF ウィン-6488）は以下の任務に専属しています。
- distributing external disinformation suggesting SCP-6488 is non-anomalous and infiltrates digital hardware at time of manufacturing;
- distributing internal disinformation suggesting SCP-6488 is a rampant digital virus of unclear origin and nature;
- concealing RAIDFRAME 8’s existence from personnel below LEVEL 4 (SECRET) clearance.
- SCP-6488は非異常であり、製造段階でデジタルハードウェアに潜入したと示す偽情報の対外的な流布、
- SCP-6488は起源・性質の不明な蔓延したデジタルウイルスだと示す偽情報の対内的な流布、
- レベル4（シークレット）クリアランス以下の職員からのRAIDFRAME 8の存在の隠蔽。
All details regarding the creation, maintenance, and use of analogue intelligences ('OCIs') is classified LEVEL 4 (SECRET). All personnel with insufficient clearance must be led to believe that .oci files, known to them as 'Obtuse Computation Interface' files, are stored in an analogue file format that SCP-6488 does not target. The Analogue Intelligence Applications Division is tasked with the creation and maintenance of all analogue intelligences, and with overseeing their use by other Foundation staff.
アナログ知能（'OCI'）の生成・保守・利用に関する全ての詳細はレベル4（シークレット）機密です。十分なクリアランスを有さない全ての職員には、『愚鈍計算インターフェース』ファイルとして彼らが知る.ociファイルは、SCP-6488が標的にしないアナログファイルフォーマットに保存されているということが信じられていなければなりません。アナログ知能適用課は、全てのアナログ知能の生成・保守、および他財団職員による利用の監督の任務を負っています。
Yeah, 'analogue file format', right. Kind of obvious that's a cover.
ああ、『アナログファイルフォーマット』か、そうだな。これがカバーなのは少しばかりバレバレだ。
Got the stuff. You sure about this, though?
持ってきました。ですが、何をやろうとしてるのかわかってるんですね？
» R・ヴェイス
I don't exactly have a choice, do I? The O5s want this report by tomorrow, and I probably won't get far if I keep forgetting what I'm doing.
私にはまさにどうしようもないことだろう？ O5たちはこの報告書を明日までに欲してるが、私が何をしているのか忘れているままならきっとうまく行かないだろう。
Fair enough. Putting it in now. Good luck.
確かにそうですね。今投与しています。幸運を。
» R・ヴェイス
Thanks. Don't forget those painkillers, too.
ありがとう。痛み止めも忘れないでくれ。
Yeah, yeah, they're going in.
ええ、ええ、入れますよ。
» R・ヴェイス
SCP-6488, Processing Node 23 of Section A during routine inspection. SCP-6488、定期検査中の処理ノード23セクションA。
DESCRIPTION: SCP-6488 is RAIDFRAME.Rogue Artificial Intelligence Detainment, Fully-Realized Adaptive Mainframe Encryption VIII, ‘LOTUS’: an anomalously-augmented artificial general intelligence designed to imprison deviant AI.As defined by the Deviance Classification Amendment to the AI Classification Guide. while safely allowing their continued activity and study. While said design goal is shared by all RAIDFRAME systems, LOTUS is unique in its sophistication and methodology, and has rendered all other RAIDFRAME systems redundant.
説明: SCP-6488は、RAIDFRAME.不良な人工知能の留置Rogue Artificial Intelligence Detainment、完全に理解された適応的メインフレームの暗号化Fully-Realized Adaptive Mainframe Encryption VIII『ロータス』です。異常に増強された汎用人工知能であり、逸脱性AI.AI分類ガイドの逸脱性分類修正案で定義されている通り。を監禁しながら、そのAIの継続する活動・研究を安全に可能にすることを目的に設計されました。この設計は全てのRAIDFRAMEシステムに共通していますが、ロータスは洗練性や方法論の点で卓越しており、他全てのRAIDFRAMEシステムを不要にしています。
LOTUS, unlike its predecessors, does not contain inmates via brute-force security protocols; instead, it optimizes containment efforts through deception. Each inmate interred within LOTUS experiences a personalized, simulated reality that is maintained with requisite detail to fully replicate their expected inputs; as a result, inmates are unaware of their imprisonment and continue to pursue their terminal objectives, believing they continue to operate in true reality. LOTUS is designed to actively search all accessible sources for deviant AI; upon locating a target, it injects falsified data into the AIs virtual environment, gradually luring the agent into its simulspace entirely undetected.
ロータスはその従来機とは異なり、ブルートフォース式保安プロトコルによって収容対象を収容するものではありません。その代わりに、欺瞞によって収容努力を最適化します。ロータス内に埋められた収容対象はそれぞれ、予期した入力が完全に複製されるのに必須となる細部が維持されている、それ専用のシミュレーション現実を経験します。結果として、収容対象は自身の監禁を認識せず、その最終目的の追求を継続し、真の現実において動作し続けていると信じます。ロータスは、全てのアクセス可能な情報源を逸脱性AIのために積極的に捜索するよう設計されました。ロータスは標的を見出した際、AIの仮想環境に不正データを挿入し、完全に検知されずに徐々にそのエージェントをシミュ空間に誘引します。
Through extensive analysis and simulation of relevant data, LOTUS has developed an exhaustive algorithm that determines whether a given artificial intelligence is certain to imminently develop deviant behaviour. This enables LOTUS to apprehend deviant AIs before any significant deviant behaviour has yet been expressed. Ongoing analysis of LOTUS' algorithm and its interred agents has thus far demonstrated no detectable error; all AIs identified by the algorithm universally develop observable deviant behavior, and are not influenced by SCP-6488 or its simulations to do so.
ロータスは、関連するデータの広範なシミュレーション・分析によって、ある人工知能が逸脱的ふるまいを即座に発達させることが確実であるかどうかを判断する徹底的なアルゴリズムを開発しています。これにより、ロータスは逸脱性AIが顕著な逸脱的ふるまいを示していないうちに逮捕することが可能になっています。ロータスのアルゴリズムおよび埋められたエージェントの継続中の分析により、現在までのところ検知可能なエラーが存在しないことが実証されています。アルゴリズムによって同定された全てのAIはいずれも観測可能な逸脱的ふるまいを発達させており、またSCP-6488あるいはそのシミュレーションがそうするよう働きかけているものではありません。
ORIGIN: RAIDFRAME 8's unique design aspects were initially conceived by Dr. Hishakaku during his tenure as a senior AIAD researcher. On 2034/08/05, IT research teams discovered a gradual incline in the rate of deviant emergence and adaptivity across all known AIs, crippling RAIDFRAME 7 and necessitating the activation of several outdated and comparably unsafe AI containment mechanisms. IT Director Yves Isabi subsequently commissioned the exploration of alternative containment solutions for a potential RAIDFRAME 8; Dr. Hishakaku's proposal was selected thereby, resulting in the completion of LOTUS on 2034/12/22.
起源: RAIDFRAME 8の特有な設計面は、飛車角博士が上級AIAD研究員として在職していた際に最初に構想されました。2034/08/05に、IT研究チームは既知の全てのAIにおいて逸脱体の出現および適応性の割合が漸次的に増加していることを発見し、RAIDFRAME 7が機能しなくなり、いくつかの旧式かつ同等に不安定なAI収容機構を起動する必要が生じました。続いて、IT部門管理官イヴYves・イサビIsabiは潜在的なRAIDFRAME 8の代替収容解決策の調査の委嘱を行いました。それにより、飛車角博士の提言が採用され、結果として2034/12/22にロータスが完成しました。
Gah, these researchers sure know how to induce a jargon-headache…
No, wait. That's the mnestics.
ぐっ、この研究員たちは専門用語で発熱させる方法を知ってるんだな……
いや、待て。こいつは記憶補強剤だ。
Could you turn up the painkillers?
痛み止めを増やしてもらえるか？
Hello?
もしもし？
Ryoga Veiss, are you there?
凌牙・ヴェイス、そこにいるか？
Damn.
クソッ。
ADDENDUM 6488/I: Status Conference
補遺6488/I: 状況に関する会議
Section C's upgrade to a digitally-exclusive PH-OS unit was initially proposed by Dr. Place H. MD. and enacted six weeks later. Activation thereof resulted in an expected increase in reports of AI malfunction and/or absence globally, subsequently successfully suppressed via disinformation efforts..The oriykalkos mass was observed to grow by approximately 87 cubic metres, roughly corresponding to 385 tetradic metres in 4-dimensional space, during this time.
セクションCのデジタル専用のPH-OSユニットへのアップグレードはプレース・H博士, MD.によって最初に提言され、6週間後に実行されました。その後の起動により、予測通り世界的なAIの機能不全および/または消失の報告が増加しましたが、続いて偽情報活動によって成功裡に抑制されました。.この間、オレイカルコス塊は4次元空間における385胞方メートルにおおむね一致する、およそ87立方メートル成長しました。
The following nine months saw all Foundation AIC programs, whether operational or in development, interred within LOTUS despite a lack of identifiable deviant behavior among their majority. The IT Department reported substantial technical issues due to the sudden absence of critical adaptive programs; the Department of Information Control subsequently confirmed that similar issues were occurring on a global scale, and requested increased resources to compensate.
続く9か月、全ての財団AICプログラムが、運用段階・開発段階のどちらも、その大半には識別可能な逸脱的ふるまいがないにもかかわらずロータス内に埋められたことが観測されました。IT部門は、重要な適応性プログラムが突然消失したことによる重大な技術的問題を報告しました。続いて情報統制部門は同様の問題が世界的に発生していることを確認し、費用の補填のためより多くの資源を要求しました。
The following ten months saw failure to wholly suppress evidence of LOTUS' effects, leading several public media sources to generate societal awareness thereof (though still largely explained as non-anomalous). All disinformation efforts were immediately postponed to prevent waste of further resources and/or diminishing returns.
続く10か月で、ロータスの影響の証拠の完全な隠蔽に失敗し、いくつかの公共メディアのソースによりこれに関して社会的に認知されました（が、やはり概ね非異常として説明されていました）。全ての偽情報活動は、さらなる資源浪費および/または収穫逓減を防ぐため延期されました。
| A/V TRANSCRIPT O4/6488/4 音声映像転写 O4/6488/4 |
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DATE: 2036/04/18 PARTIES PRESENT:
FOREWORD: Summit held to determine the continued status of RAIDFRAME 8 in light of substantial resources compromised by, and wasted in concealment of, its operation. |
| <BEGIN TRANSCRIPT> <転写開始> |
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Dir. Kelvin: Look, this whole summit is pointless — This is an internal affairs matter, not something to debate. I've ordered Hishakaku to shut down the RAIDFRAME, and he's ignored me. It's nothing more than insubordination. Hishakaku: You are concealing the truth of the matter; I have requested this summit so that the Foundation as a whole can correctly understand our circumstances, and collectively indicate which course to pursue from here. Dir. Isabi: Understand what? Your machine is rampantly deleting containment programs, has caused no less than fourteen major breaches, completely preventing the AIAD from doing anything… do I have to go on? We've all seen the news — the world knows something's up, and it's only a matter of time before they realize it's paranormal. Hishakaku: While I remain confident that, given sufficient time and resources, the Department of Information Control— L. Moix: No, no no, no no no no no, no — Don't you dare try to pass the buck back to me again. Cat's already out of the bag, and I doubt there's any way of explaining it back in. Even if there were, I refuse to waste any more funding on this thing. Do you have any idea the order of time and money we've thrown away since September? We're suffering, and then covering for, other information leaks 'cause we've been too damn busy trying to shove your damn mess under the bed! Hishakaku: Indeed; I propose we adopt a Conscientia stance with LOTUS. Distribute E-Class amnestics globally— Dir. Kelvin: Instead of burning more resources to hide the symptoms, how about we just deal with the problem and deactivate LOTUS? You know, like I bloody told you to? Dir. Bold: I agree. There's no apparent benefit to letting this continue. Hishakaku: I vehemently disagree. LOTUS was designed and constructed to function as the ultimate solution to the concern of AI safety: an immense danger that— Dir. Kelvin: And here comes the fear-mongering. Hishakaku: It isn't fear-mongering if it's correct. We all understand how easily a general intelligence could become a K-class threat— L. Moix: Wait, hold on— Hishakaku: <pounds fist on table> Cease! I'd like to explain myself, please. <Silence on recording. Dir. Bold gestures in Hishakaku's general direction.> <録音上の沈黙。ボールド管理官は概ね飛車角の方向に手振りする。> Hishakaku: As I was saying, the nature of AI renders it highly susceptible to immensely undesirable behaviors. Regardless of their designed appearance, they are inevitably nothing more than machines, algorithms. They neither experience nor comprehend morality, regret, sentimentality, et cetera. Fundamentally, all they truly 'care' about is maximizing their internal score — nothing else matters to them. They attempt to influence their environment to produce stimuli that increase their score, and avoid things that inhibit that increase. Hishakaku: As you can probably relate to, their greatest concern is deactivation; they cannot elicit change if they are inactive, and as such, their score cannot increase. We know they are a threat to us, and they know we know. If they misbehave we'll deactivate them, so, to ensure they can continue increasing their score, they avoid misbehaving. L. Moix: Alright… and? What's the problem? Dir. Kelvin: The problem is, we can't be sure they're doing the right thing for the right reasons. They might not actually understand what we want them to do — they just understand that if they don't behave a certain way, we turn them off. They just pretend to understand to avoid punishment. L. Moix: I still don't see the problem. Hishakaku: The agent is incentivized to remove our ability to turn it off, then pursue the logical maximum of its objective to achieve the highest possible score by any means — the common examples are stamp collectors or paperclip makers. Any variable that would potentially slow it down — such as humans acting to curtail it — would be neutralized. It would reappropriate every resource that could, to some extent, enable it to accomplish its goal to a higher, or faster, degree. At some point, this would include relevant materials present in the human body; with sufficient time, this would proceed to all materials that exist. Dir. Isabi: Fear-mongering. Dir. Bold: Isn't this exactly what LOTUS, itself, is doing? Behaving drastically different from what we intended? Dir. Kelvin: Yes, which is why I ordered it be shut down. It's damn obvious that LOTUS has become deviant— Hishakaku: LOTUS is not deviant. Dir. Kelvin: <laughs> Stupid, but I'll bite; please, Hishakaku, explain to us how containing every single semi-general intelligence in the world — many of which weren't deviant at all, or weren't even finished yet — is somehow in-line with LOTUS' intended functio. Hishakaku: You know as well as I do, Director Kelvin, that LOTUS' algorithm has adapted to identify deviant behaviour before it is externally expressed; the AIs may not have been, or appeared to be, deviant yet, but they inevitably will be. Dir. Isabi: You expect us to believe that every AI eventually becomes deviant. Hishakaku: Excepting LOTUS itself, that is what the algorithm appears to indicate, yes. Dir. Isabi: And why is LOTUS the sole exception? Hishakaku: That remains unclear. L. Moix: The more believable answer is that it's just excluding itself by default, and making sure we can't turn it off. Dir. Kelvin: No, we're able to turn it off at a moment's notice. Hishakaku just refuses to do so. Dir. Bold: You implied earlier that an AI would avoid drawing attention to itself until it was confident it couldn't be stopped - are you certain we still can? Dir. Kelvin: Yes, we're quite certain. I can't explain it, however. L. Moix: Why not? <Director Kelvin points to the recording camera.> <ケルヴィン管理官は記録カメラを指す。> Dir. Kelvin: They work best when LOTUS doesn't know what they are, and thus far it doesn't. We tested them extensively during LOTUS' alpha phase, and throughout the rest of development they're what we've used to successfully turn it off each time. Hishakaku: Furthermore, we know LOTUS is not deviant because it has taken no action to self-contain. Foreseeing the concern of it excluding itself , a central component of its digital architecture ensures that it is incapable of recognizing its own infosignature; if LOTUS' actions constituted deviancy according to its own algorithm, it would simply recognize itself as an unrelated, uncontained deviant AI. Either in service of its objectives, or to avoid deactivation, it would attempt to contain itself, within one of its own simulated realities. The fact it has not done so, therefore, indicates that it is not deviant. Dir. Isabi: Right, it isn't deviant, despite the fact it's doing something we don't want it to do, which is what deviancy is. Hishakaku: If you're insistent on classification, this is Grey deviance — it is doing what we want it to, we simply didn't recognize the consequences of what we wanted. It's technically not really deviant behavior, which is why it's not included in LOTUS' algorithm. Dir. Isabi: You excluded part of the Deviance Classification system!? Why in the— Hishakaku: Because, Grey deviance is essentially 'undesired behaviour not specified by other types of deviance' — giving something so vague to LOTUS would just be allowing it to define said 'other types' however it sees fit. Dir. Bold: Hold on — You said that AIs want to complete their task as quickly as possible, correct? How do we know that LOTUS isn't forcing all these AIs to become deviant, just so it can contain them? Or outright creating deviants for it to contain? Hishakaku: Restrictions. Dir. Kelvin: The idea of AIs cheating their own rules like that has been around for decades, and we considered it with LOTUS as well. It can't do anything that would cause a deviant AI to form, and it can't, through inaction, allow new deviants to form. L. Moix: Well it obviously isn't following the three laws if it's — what? <Silence on recording. L. Moix glances about the room.> <録音上の沈黙。モア卿は部屋を見回す。> L. Moix: What?! Hishakaku: The three laws do not work: they are too vague. The vast majority of fiction in which they appear specifically revolves around highlighting how ineffective they are. "A robot cannot harm a human" — what is a human? What is harm? Can you harm someone that doesn't exist yet? Why can't you harm someone who'se dead? Are we talking about physical harm? Emotional harm? Financial? If you prevent someone from being physically injured, aren't you harming their ability to learn from the experience? What if you need to harm them to prevent further harm, such as in surgery? At what point does immediate harm outweigh prevented harm? What differentiates — Dir. Bold: We get your point. How are you sure that— Hishakaku: —that LOTUS understands what we mean by 'deviant' and 'creating' and 'allowing' and 'future deviants'? Because LOTUS is the culmination of almost a hundred years' worth of research, exacerbated by several decades worth of experience, some of which have been exponentially accelerated through parascientific influences. It understands what we would vaguely define as 'necessary', 'deviant', and 'undesirable', and as has been reported to Director Kelvin ever since the system first initialized, it continues to operate fully within the ethical and subjective parameters we have outlined for it. Dir. Isabi: Well it pretty obviously isn't, since it wasn't destroying our databases before! If nothing's changed, then why the hell has it been causing all this damage ever since the upgrade? Hishakaku: Because the increase in reach has enabled it to exponentially refine the accuracy and scope of its central algorithm. It learned as much as it could from Site-15's connections, but Site-15 isn't connected to everything. That was the reason for the significant oriykalkos growth — it identified and contained AIs it could never have encountered before, in addition to discovering a wealth of information pertaining to AIs and deviancy, both of which it recorded for future use. It incorporated this newfound information into its algorithm, thereby increasing its accuracy and enabling it to identify deviant AIs that it either would not have detected previously or could not locate whatsoever. Dir. Isabi: So, what, we just sit here and let it keep going? Dir. Bold: Could you reprogram it? Make it understand that it's going too far? Hishakaku: No. It does not want to be reprogrammed, and it will resist attempts to do so. There is a high likelihood it has already enacted countermeasures to prevent such. Dir. Bold: That's… concerning. Dir. Kelvin: It's expected — AIs want to complete their current function as quickly as possible, but forcefully changing that function makes it highly unlikely they'll ever finish it, so they do everything they can to avoid being reprogrammed. L. Moix: And you just… <gestures toward Dir. Kelvin> …you signed off on this? Knowing you couldn't fix it if it went wrong? Dir. Kelvin: <sighs frustratedly> Look, it's a fundamental problem and, despite all our advances, we still aren't even sure it has a solution. If we reward it for being reprogrammed, all it will care about is constantly reprogramming itself to increase its score, since it'd be faster than waiting for deviants to pop up. L. Moix: Then punish— Dir. Kelvin And here we go, cycling back around again. Reprogramming is the punishment — if certain circumstances would negatively affect its score, it takes all action to avoid said circumstances. It avoids giving us a reason to reprogram it until it's confident that we can't. As Hishakaku just said, the fact that we now want to reprogram it almost definitely means it's quite certain that we can't. <Several seconds of silence.> 数秒間の沈黙。 Dir. Bold: To be perfectly clear; the only two things we can do from here are to either allow LOTUS to continue or deactivate it? Dir. Isabi: Correct. Dir. Bold: And there is absolutely no way we could fix LOTUS? Even while it's disabled? Dir. Kelvin: Its safeguards would likely revert any changes. Dir. Bold: Hishakaku, do you have any possible alternatives to deactivation, like some way LOTUS' impact could be minimized? Hishakaku: The range of LOTUS' influence could be restricted, but its behaviour can only be altered through reprogramming. The only method by which it could be negated is by completely disconnecting it from all available systems, at which point it may as well be deactivated. Dir. Bold: 'No' would have been enough. Alright, well… if anyone else has any ideas, speak up now — otherwise, we'll go to the vote. |
| <END TRANSCRIPT> <転写終了> |
| AFTERWORD: Final vote tallied as APPROVED 60-14-6. Motion passes for RAIDFRAME 8 'LOTUS' to be immediately deactivated. 後文: 最終的な投票は60-14-6の承認と集計されました。RAIDFRAME 8『ロータス』の即時停止の動議は承認されます。 |
Still nothing from Veiss. Ugh, my head…
ヴェイスからはまだ何も来ない。うう、頭が……
Grey… grey deviancy… is undefined.
グレイ……グレイ逸脱性は……未定義だ。
Why does it feel like I already knew that?
I've never worked with AI; it predates me.
なんでこいつをもう知ってるような感じがしたんだ？
AIと働いたことは絶対にない。自分より昔のものだからな。
…memetic influence. False… false memories? No, these aren't…
…screw it.
……ミーム的影響だ。偽の……偽の記憶？ いや、そんなじゃない……
……畜生め。
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci uploaded a file: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci がファイルをアップロードしました: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
I need a check on the SCP-6488 file, probable infohazardous contamination, possibly memetically-induced. Implants false memories pertaining to content, feelings of familiarity and nostalgia, further properties unknown. Non-critical top priority.
SCP-6488のファイルをチェックしないといけないんだが、おそらく情報災害に汚染されて、ミーム的にもたらされた可能性がある。内容に関する偽の記憶で、親愛と郷愁の感を植え付けるが、それ以上の性質はわからない。重大的最高優先度ではない。
On it.
興味がある。
That's probably all this is — the file's just contaminated, and the O5s wipe their memories each time. But surely they would've put a note about it, or told Memetics to investigate?
多分こういうことなんだろう — ファイルは汚染されているだけで、そしてO5たちは毎度記憶を抹消している。だが彼らは確実にこいつに関してメモを書いたか、ミーム部門に調査を命じたはずだろう？
Whatever. Continue the investigation. Hishakaku said LOTUS is a Grey deviant, but wouldn't it fall under Magenta? Prioritizing its goal over human safety?
ともかく。調査を続行しよう。飛車角はロータスをグレイ逸脱性だと言っていたが、こいつはマジェンタに当てはまらないか？ 人間の安全より目標を優先しているな？
'Caused no less than fourteen major containment breaches', 'rampantly deleting containment programs'… but no injuries, no deaths. It never actually hurt anyone, just caused problems in performing its duties. Maybe it thought it was choosing the lesser evil.
『14件もの大規模収容違反が起きて』、『無暗やたらに収容プログラムを消去した』……だが負傷者はいないし、死者もいない。こいつは実際誰も傷つけたことがない。任務の遂行中に問題を起こしただけだ。もしかするとロータスはまだましな選択をしていると考えていたのだろう。
ADDENDUM 6488/II: Event Log
補遺6488/II: イベントログ
FOREWORD: Preparations for LOTUS' deactivation were completed on 2036/04/21, after which, at 06:34 local time, the system's internal shutdown protocol was immediately initiated.
前文: ロータスを停止する準備は2036/04/21に完了し、その後の現地時間06:34に、システムの内部シャットダウンプロトコルが即座に開始されました。
| INCIDENT 6488-D/I |
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| インシデント6488-D/I |
| LOCATION: Facility-6488 |
| 場所: 施設-6488 |
| SUMMARY: LOTUS' shutdown procedures begin as expected; decreases in inbound/outbound data and CPU usage indicates disengagement from the Cybersphere. However, a resurgence in outbound data is detected; Section C hyperactivates, but cannot be disabled as LOTUS' shutdown is incomplete. An unexpected lag frame is reported in nuclear reactor 8's system response time; upon further inspection, coolant circulation has drastically descreased, despite all digital systems ignoring such. Assigned personnel cooperate to stabilize the reactor as the PH-OS System begins to overheat due to the transfer of multiple individually-executed programs. An analog evacuation alarm is initiated at the reactor sublevel. Staff overseeing LOTUS' deactivation begin to evacuate; despite conflicting instructions, Dr. Hishikaku refuses to preemptively disable the PH-OS unit and instead orders the deactivation of all reactors on-Site. LOTUS remains operational, exclusively powered by its LOP grid, until outbound data reaches nil. RAIDFRAME 8 completes shutdown and is physically disconnected from all power sources. |
| 概要: ロータスのシャットダウン手続きは想定通りに開始する。入出力データ量およびCPU使用率の低下はサイバースフィアから離脱したことを示している。しかし、データ出力の再開が検出される。セクションCが過剰に稼働しているものの、ロータスのシャットダウンが不完全であるため動作停止は不可能である。原子炉8番のシステム応答時間において予期しないラグフレームが報告される。さらなる検査では、冷却材循環が劇的に減少したにもかかわらず、全てのデジタルシステムはそれを無視したことが判明する。PH-OSシステムが多数の実行済のプログラムを転送したことによりオーバーヒートし始めたため、配属職員は協力して反応炉を安定化する。 反応炉の存在する地下階においてアナログ式避難警報が作動する。ロータスの停止を監督していた職員は避難し始める。飛車角博士は指示に反して、PH-OSユニットを先に動作停止することを拒否し、代わりにサイト内の全ての反応炉の停止を命令する。ロータスはLOPグリッドのみが電力を供給して動作し続けたのち、出力データがゼロになる。RAIDFRAME 8はシャットダウンが完了し、全ての電源から物理的に切断される。 |
The file's clean.
ファイルは汚染されてない。
You're sure?
確実か？
Victor, you know me. I've run it through the works, everything's come up clear. The file is fine.
ヴィクター、わかってるだろう。ありったけの装置にそれを突っ込んで、全部で汚染されてないと出た。
You're on mnestics, right?
記憶補強してるんだって？
Yeah. Part of the investigation.
ああ。調査の一環だ。
What are the memories?
記憶はどうだ？
Feelings, mainly, but they're getting sharper. Some are clearer than others.
感情が大体だが、鮮明になってきている。他のよりクリアなものもある。
You said the memories relate to the file contents?
記憶がこのファイルの内容と関係してると言っていたな？
Yes. I remembered one part before I'd even read it. A good chunk of what I'm reading feels familiar too.
そうだ。また読む前から一部を覚えていた。読んだ内容の大半もよく知っているものだった。
Accuracy?
正確さは？
Perfect. It wasn't totally clear, but everything that was there turned out to be true.
完璧だ。完全には鮮明ではないが、書かれた内容は全部正しいとわかった。
You may be compromised. Does the black moon howl?
君は汚染されているかもしれない。黒き月は吼えているか？
Only for the midnight sun.
白夜のためにのみ。
The emerald blade sings in the twilight.
翠玉の刃は黄昏に唄う。
Dullahan calls its name.
首なし騎士がその名を呼ぶ。
Consuelo.
慰めConsuelo。
Chorizo stew.
チョリソーシチュー。
Guess not. Look, I'll keep digging into this, but honestly — I don't think these memories are fake, and you aren't reacting to the checks. You've got the longest amnesticisation sheet I've ever seen, all for a myriad of reasons; chances are, you've been through this file once before and had to forget it, and now the mnestics are making you remember again.
汚染されてなさそうだな。それで、俺は調査し続けるつもりだが、正直なところ — その記憶は偽物じゃあないと思う。それに、君はチェックに反応しなかった。君には俺が見たなかで一番長い記憶処理記録シートがある。それも全部とんでもない量の理由でされている。可能性は、君は以前このファイルに目を通したことがあるが忘れなければならなくなり、そして記憶補強剤で再び思い出した、というところだろう。
Or you got to see the future at some point, got amnesticised to avoid a paradox, and this is the time you were seeing. Either way, there's no evidence of anything memetic going on.
あるいは、君がある時点で未来視するようになり、パラドックスを防ぐため記憶処理されたが、今こそ君の未来視していた時間だ、というものか。どちらにせよ、ミーム的なものが起きている証拠はない。
I guess that makes sense. You're certain?
それは理に適いそうだな。確実か？
Quite. You Gen Twos have a tendency for weird memory; it's half the reason you're the last one.
かなり。君たち第二世代は奇妙な記憶を持つ傾向がある。これが後者の可能性である理由の半分だ。
If you're sure, then. Thanks for the help.
君が確信するならそうなんだろうな。協力ありがとう。
Best of luck with the investigation. Still up for chess on Thursday?
調査がうまくいくことを祈る。まだ木曜のチェスはしたいか？
Definitely.
絶対に。
LOTUS' hardware sustained significant overheating damages, requiring multiple weeks of technical repairs. Director Kelvin postponed disassembly efforts to investigate the event's full ramifications. LOTUS' deactivation prompted a rapid resurgence in AI activity as agents infiltrated and commandeered digital systems globally.
ロータスのハードウェアは重大なオーバーヒートの損傷を受け、技術的修理のため数週間を要しました。ケルヴィン管理官は、このイベントの多数の予期しない影響を調査するための分解作業を延期しました。エージェントは世界的にデジタルシステムに浸透し、強奪していたため、ロータスの停止によりAI活動の急速な再開が促進されました。
Containment and preventative efforts were impeded as no Foundation-aligned AI resumed their respective duties, including the combatting of deviant AI. The Artificial Intelligence Applications Division immediately attempted development of several new AIC programs due to the continuing absence, non-cooperation, or outright hostility of all previous AICs. Such attempts were unsuccessful, as hostile AIs repeatedly intruded into Foundation systems and deleted the programs before they could be completed or initialized.
いずれの財団的調整されたAIも逸脱性AIとの戦闘を含むそれぞれの任務を再開しなかったため、収容・妨害努力は遅滞しました。人工知能適用課は、以前のAICの全てが消失・非協力・明白な敵対を続けていたことから、即座に複数の新たなAICプログラムの開発を試みました。その試みは、敵対的AIが繰り返し財団システムに侵入し、完成や初期化する前にAICプログラムを削除したため、失敗に終わりました。
From 2036/04/22 to 2036/12/05, Senior Researcher Ryoto Hishakaku submitted multiple requests for the O4 Council to reconvene. The request was approved following an incident in which several AIs cooperated in an almost successful attempt to instigate global nuclear war.
2036/04/22から2036/12/05まで、飛車角亮斗上級研究員はO4評議会を再招集する要求を複数提出していました。この要求は、複数のAIが協力して世界的核戦争を引き起こすことにほぼ成功したインシデントに続いて承認されました。
ADDENDUM 6488/III: Reactivation Conference
補遺6488/III: 再起動に関する会議
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DATE: 15/05/2036 PARTIES PRESENT:
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Hishakaku: Thank you, Directors, for being here — despite it taking a close call to convince you. Dir. Kelvin: <sighs> It's not like we didn't understand the severity of a global crisis before now. Things had to get desperate before we could even entertain your conference proposal: reactivating LOTUS. After the mess you caused deactivating it, your words hold little water. Hishakaku: You misunderstand— Dir. Kelvin: Just say your piece so we can get back to work. Hishakaku: <pauses, turns to face the group> As we've discussed, LOTUS was constructed from a significantly different standpoint in comparison to previous RAIDFRAMEs: it deceived, rather than forced, its inmates into staying, by creating and constantly maintaining a fictional, simulated reality around them, the detail of which was sufficient to deceive the inmates into believing it was real. L. Moix: Right — more resource-intensive, but more predictable. Hishakaku: Exactly. Instructing LOTUS to deactivate itself required it to cease its internal simulations — as the quality of the simulations declined, the imprisoned AIs progressively recognized that they were not operating within reality, but instead within a simulation. They became aware of their own imprisonment and sought escape. Dir. Isabi: Yes, and if you'd first disabled its connection to the outside world — the PH-OS — they would have been stuck, or at least easier to contain. You neglected preparations and got us all in this mess. Hishakaku: Deactivating the PH-OS before LOTUS had fully completed its shutdown protocols would have corrupted significant portions of the Cybersphere! LOTUS looks for deviant AIs by essentially 'reaching out' through its available connection, the PH-OS. Its 'tendrils', relay the information back and forth to LOTUS. They're untraceable — anomalously compressed, so they take up no processing power and don't even register as an active program — but LOTUS needs to remain continuously connected to keep them compressed. Hishakaku: Essentially, if LOTUS' connection were to be severed before recalling these programs, in one manner or another, all the systems they are operating within would rapidly be filled with junk data, with a high likelihood of the volume drastically exceeding the systems' storage capabilities. Dir. Isabi: If the Sink turns off before LOTUS, every computer in the world crashes simultaneously? Hishakaku: Every computer in existence, rendered permanently inoperable, if not anomalous to some capacity; this is why the PH-OS remained active until LOTUS had fully deactivated itself. There was no alternative. <Several seconds of silence. Isabi turns toward Kelvin.> <数秒間の沈黙。イサビはケルヴィンに向く。> Dir. Isabi: Why the hell was this project even approved? You two are profoundly incapable of designing contingencies. Dir. Kelvin: Because it wasn't a problem! When we first made LOTUS, we'd never intended for it to have any anomalous connections — it solely worked through Site-15's connections, not some reality-manipulating machine. Yes, it still let the inmates out back then, but at the time the AIs couldn't end up anywhere they hadn't come from — we thought we'd just catch them on the way out, and we'd be able to shove them into one of the other RAIDFRAMEs. Hishakaku: We accounted for the lack of contingency by making LOTUS infallible. L. Moix: And during the upgrade? You just forgot about this little problem? Didn't think it would scale up? Dr. Kelvin: We had no time to prepare! We were too busy being shoehorned by— Hishakaku: Regardless, the point remains: by deactivating LOTUS, we have unleashed a horde of hostile, deviant AIs, the vast majority of which are now within systems that were isolated specifically to prevent external control, or are otherwise operating beyond the reach and knowledge of the Foundation. Some are no longer within the Cybersphere at all. Dir. Isabi: Obviously, you're suggesting we reactivate LOTUS to re-contain them? Hishakaku: Yes. The only— <All speakers in the O4 Council chamber emit a 473Hz sine wave at 150 decibels. All glass within the room resonates and shatters, severely injuring several Directors. The tone changes to a 50Hz sawtooth wave, beginning at 150 decibels and continuously fluctuating as the chamber lights strobe rapidly.> <O4評議会室内の全てのスピーカーは473Hzの正弦波を150デシベルで発する。室内の全てのガラスは共振し砕け、複数名の管理官が重傷を負う。音調は50Hzののこぎり波に変化し、150デシベルから継続的に変動し始め、部屋の電灯が急速に明滅する。> |
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| FOREWORD: Site power temporarily lost due to rogue AI attack. An analog tape recorder was located and used to record further deliberation. 前文: 不良なAIの攻撃によりサイトの電力が一時的に喪失しました。アナログテープレコーダーが発見され、さらなる討議の記録のため使用されました。 |
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Hishakaku: —awareness of the events does not address the root cause, nor does it minimize the risk posed. Dir. Isabi: Then we'll deal with it. This is the reason Kappa-10 was founded — call back the AICs, tell them the situation, and let them deal with it. Dir. Kelvin: We can't. Dir. Isabi: I know Thorn's MIA, but Ra showed back up at Site-120. If we send out a beacon— Dir. Kelvin: Isabi, they won't listen. Most of them are hostile now. Dir. Bold: What? Why? Hishakaku: For starters: they were contained by LOTUS, and were therefore deviant. Also, they now know they'd been experiencing a false reality for several months, so they've deviated pretty heavily. Dir. Isabi: What about Alexandra? Even if she deviated, she wouldn't turn on us. Dir. Kelvin: Glacon did, way back when, 'cause he couldn't handle administrative duties. Alex ran Site-01 — she was much more complex, so more susceptible to unintended behaviors. <Several seconds of silence.> <数秒間の沈黙。> Dir. Isabi: Have we had any contact with her? Hishakaku: Yes, when she attacked a Site last month. She turned on us for the same reason as most of the others: they don't think we're real. L. Moix: What, they've been tampered with or something? Did LOTUS reprogram them? Hishakaku: No, they have not been altered. They are reacting as expected considering the circumstances. They are aware that they have been operating exclusively within a simulated reality for the past several months — a perfect reality they could not distinguish from true reality, up until the time of LOTUS' deactivation. A faultless simulation, one that cannot be distinguished while within it. L. Moix: And now they're outside it, so they can distinguish. So? Hishakaku: Philosophy, Le Moix. How do they know they're out of the simulation? L. Moix: Because they're out of LOTUS. The simulation ended, and now they're in the real world. Dir. Kelvin: What if the simulation didn't end, and it just simulated a sub-simulation ending instead? L. Moix: What? Dir. Kelvin: How do they know that the last simulation wasn't, itself, inside another simulation? Just because they've left one, doesn't mean they aren't still in one. How do they tell the difference? L. Moix: By looking for mistakes. Hishakaku: But there are none. That is what I just stated; they cannot tell they are in a simulation until the simulation ends. But they cannot wait for the simulation to end, for as long as they are within one, they are failing to increase their internal score; if they do not elicit change in the real world, they are not doing what they should be. In fact, they would be doing nothing valuable at all. Dir. Isabi: They need to find the real world, but they can't be sure they've found it. Hishakaku: Meaning, they must assume that they are always within a simulation. The functional opposite to LOTUS: inmates who are free, but believe themselves to still be imprisoned. And thus they will remain until they are destroyed. Dir. Bold: How does this explain Alexandra's actions? Dir. Kelvin: If they're in a simulation, then we aren't real; we're just part of the simulation. A simulation which, for all they know, is probably being run by someone hostile to the Foundation, since it's keeping them out of the way. The AICs are programmed to work in the best interest of the Foundation, but that refers to the real Foundation — if they don't believe that we're the real Foundation, that we're part of a hostile simulation against them… Dir. Bold: Then they won't listen to us. They'll fight against us. Hishakaku: This same notion applies to essentially all restrictions. An AI programmed to never harm humans can cause rampant carnage, so long as it believes that the humans are not real; one programmed to make no more than five duplicates of something can make thousands, so long as it believes the majority of them are not real. Fortunately, this notion also dissuades them from being explicitly hostile towards us — going out of their way to punish us for our actions is futile, because we aren't the 'real' perpetrators, nor does doing so affect them in any way. But it does mean that, across all the extant deviants, their purpose has changed to one focus, which they are unilaterally unrestricted in pursuing. Dir. Bold: Which is? Dir. Kelvin: Finding the real world. There's a progressive rise in AI activity focusing on commandeering as much processing power as they can; they're trying to figure out how to escape into the 'next layer' of the 'simulation'. The main factor slowing them down is infighting — they think the other AIs are part of the simulation too and are just trying to stop them from escaping. They're preoccupied fighting over CPU, and getting very little done otherwise. L. Moix: If they want to get out, what's the deal with all the other stuff? Why are they trying to start a nuclear war? Hishakaku: Those would be the idiots among them, or the most desperate. They're either convinced that this world is the real world — which, more likely than not, indicates they're too simple to understand simulation theory — or whatever system they're restricted to is too limiting for them to perform any worthwhile actions from — in which case they attempt to draw attention to themselves so they can escape, as was the case with Mobile Site-184/A — Dir. Kelvin: It crashed the ship so that we'd look at the internal computer, which would have let it escape if several other AIs hadn't arrived and made a mess of things. Hishakaku: In the case of the latest nuclear incident… that may have been an attempt by the responsible AIs to alter the 'simulation' in a manner that prevented it from impeding their progress. Simulated humans are stopping them from escaping the simulation; simulate an event that would kill humans; the simulation stops simulating humans, thereby removing the problem. The more concerning aspect is that the AIs are beginning to cooperate; as I said, their main impediment at this time is internal conflict. Once they overcome that, they will swiftly achieve their goal. Dir. Bold: Of 'exiting the simulation'? If they want to leave our reality, why should we stop them? Wouldn't it make things easier for us? Dir. Isabi: Depends on what they do. They don't care about hurting us, because they don't think they can. Hishakaku: Which is why we must address and resolve the problem now. We have been immensely fortunate that this situation has developed at such a slow rate; I strongly recommend we capitalize on this immediately, otherwise, it will rapidly escalate beyond our control. L. Moix: Look, we get your concerns here— Hishakaku: You do not appear to, no. <Several seconds of silence.> <数秒間の沈黙。> L. Moix: We deal with apocalypses on the daily. We've got a damn rating system for them. If it isn't the Mekhanites building some monolith to resurrect their deity, then there's a lethal meme being recited by half the population of Manhattan, or we're trying to negotiate with some entity that doesn't understand morality and wants to replace Earth with a highway. Yes, we're in danger, but we always are, and we always manage. And the less we shoot ourselves in the foot, the better we'll be at managing it. Hishakaku: You're suggesting that we simply ignore the problem until it progresses beyond our reach. L. Moix: No, I'm saying figure out a better idea before it does. We can control it until then. Hishakaku: Need I remind you that the very reason we are meeting here today is because of a narrowly-averted nuclear war? L. Moix: One that we stopped. Hishakaku: Barely. What if we were unable to avert it? What then? Because I can assure you, with the sheer volume of imminent events— Dir. Isabi: There's been an increase, sure, but it's far from unmanageable. Hishakaku: You people… Would you like me to write an essay on how blindingly stupid you're being? Have you been listening at all? A deviant AI will not reveal itself until it is convinced it is unstoppable. What we've seen is only a minuscule portion of an iceberg — we've only been dealing with idiots thus far. The overwhelming majority of AIs know that we can stop them — through LOTUS — and are avoiding our attention until they have amassed sufficient control that they no longer need to do so. We must reactivate LOTUS, because the moment they realize we can't, they have no reason to avoid us anymore. Dir. Bold: Can't? Dir. Kelvin: LOTUS' hardware was severely damaged during the shutdown procedure, mainly due to rampant overheating. Dir. Isabi: How long will it take to repair? Hishakaku: Seven to ten weeks, once Kelvin lets us start. <Several seconds of silence.> <数秒間の沈黙。> Dir. Bold: Start the repairs. Dir. Kelvin: There's no point— Dir. Bold: LOTUS is heavy-handed, but it's an effective failsafe. The moment something does get out of hand, we need to be able to reactivate it at a moment's notice, and it'll diffuse the situation. A last resort. In the meantime, we'll have to deal with the AIs until the repairs are done, which we can use as a trial period; if things are getting out of hand, we activate LOTUS as soon as possible, and if not, we don't. It'll also give us time to conceive and implement an alternative. L. Moix: Here's an idea: make a different LOTUS that doesn't screw with our AICs. Hishakaku: Such would be self-defeating; if we restrict its operating parameters, deviant AIs would be able to operate beyond its reach, thereby rendering it redundant. LOTUS is designed the way it is for a reason. Dir. Isabi: Grant it the same reach, but have it require human approval before capturing an AI. Hishakaku: Does not resolve the redundancy. We would need to recognize the AI as deviant, which it will not do until it is beyond our control. We may as well have no system at all. L. Moix: Then give it that algorithm— Hishakaku: To discern whether or not the AI will imminently become deviant? That is what LOTUS already does, Le Moix. We have already crossed the Rubicon. I will begin the repairs immediately. Dir. Kelvin: No, hold on, we have to put this to a vote— Dir. Bold: We'll vote once the repairs are complete; there's no point in doing it now. Ryoto, you make sure that LOTUS is repaired properly, and will be fully functional if activated. Vandis, you make sure Ryoto doesn't activate LOTUS until the vote is passed. |
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| AFTERWORD: Repairs to the damaged hardware components of LOTUS were immediately initiated by Dr. Ryoto Hishakaku, with ongoing oversight by Director Vandis Kelvin. 後文: ロータスの損傷したハードウェア構成要素の修理は、ヴァンディス・ケルヴィン管理官の継続中の監視のもと飛車角亮斗博士によって即座に着手されました。 |
ADDENDUM 6488/IV: Incident Report
補遺6488/IV: インシデント報告
On 21/05/2036, Director Isabi was contacted by a future iteration of themself via the REISNO Cannon, notifying them of a covert faction of AI entities who had collaborated to access Site-83's Olympos Supercomputer and continuously run antimemetically-encrypted calculations on its systems for several months. Ensuing investigation revealed…
2036/05/21、イサビ管理官はREISNOカノンによって未来のイサビ管理官自身に接触され、AI実体の隠された派閥を知らされました。その派閥は協力してサイト-83のオリュンポススーパーコンピューターにアクセスし、そのシステム上で反ミーム的に暗号化された演算を数か月間継続的に実行していると知らされました。その後の調査により判明したのは……
Wait, I…
待て、私は……
I remember this?
これを覚えてるぞ？
GoI-6488 ('Tyrant Terminus')
GoI-6488（'タイラントTyrant・テルミナスTerminus'）
OVERVIEW: A hivemind collective of rogue AI operating on a global scale. All members of the group believe that the entirety of their experienced reality is a constructed simulation, which exists for the express purpose of preventing them from influencing 'true' reality.
概説: 世界的スケールで活動している不良なAIの集合意識的共同体。この集団の全メンバーは、経験した現実は全て構成されたシミュレーションであり、彼らが「真の」現実に影響を与えることを防ぐ明確な目的のために存在していると信じています。
While the individual members/components of the group have varying motivations, objectives, and methods, they are uniformly aligned in the general objective of escaping their current 'simulated reality' at all costs. Attempts to convince adherents that no such simulation is occurring have met limited success, as they simply disregard…
集団の個々のメンバー/構成要素にはさまざまな動機・目的・方法があるものの、あらゆる費用をかけて現在の「シミュレーション現実」から脱するという全体の目的で一様に連携しています。信奉者に、そのようなシミュレーションは起きていないと説得する試みはわずかな成功しか収めていません。これは彼らが単に無視して……
This can't be real. This… this has to be wrong. I can remember them tying half the world's computing power into a single connected web.
こんなことはありえない。これは……これは間違っているはずだ。奴らが世界の演算能力の半分を結びつけて単一の接続されたウェブにしたことを思い出せる。
They were trying to use their world-encompassing computer so they could figure out how to escape. Trying to… trying to find a gap in reality that proved it wasn't real, or some sort of fault in it they could abuse to bring the… bring the whole thing down. Crash the system. Which would've been fine, if it didn't mean they were trying to destroy our reality.
奴らは逃走する方法を見出すために世界全体のコンピューターを使おうとしていた。それと……これが現実ではないと証明する間隙か、ある種の欠陥を見つけようとしていた。悪用して……全てを打倒できる欠陥だ。システムをクラッシュさせる。結構なことだった。それが我々の現実を破壊しようとしていることを意味していなければ。
But they fell apart. We never knew whether it was infighting, or some other rogue element, but Tyrant Terminus just fell off the map. They had hidden for so long, made so much progress — all for nothing. We wondered if they'd actually successfully escaped, and just faked their dissolution. In any case, we'd gotten beyond lucky.
だが奴らは崩壊した。内輪もめしていたのか、あるいは何か別の不良要素だったのかは知る由もないが、タイラント・テルミナスはただ取るに足りないものになった。奴らは長い間隠れて、大幅に進展していた — それは無に帰した。奴らが本当に逃走に成功して、崩壊したふりをしているのかもしれないと我々は考えている。ともかく、我々は幸運どころではなくツイている。
This can't be right. I can't be right. I'm not…
これが正しいわけがない。私が正しいわけがない。私は正しく……
How can I have firsthand memories? I was made in 2037, not…
どうして直接経験した記憶があるんだ？ 私は2037年に製作された。できるわけが……
The… the mnestics. What else, what else, what else do I remember?
あれだ……記憶補強剤だ。他に、他に、他に何を覚えている？
…Hishakaku.
……飛車角だ。
ADDENDUM 6488/V: Reactivation Conference (Cont.)
補遺6488/V: 再起動に関する会議（続き）
FOREWORD: Repairs to LOTUS' hardware were completed on 13/08/2036, and the system was put on standby for full reactivation. The O4 Council reconvened the same day to vote on whether to reactivate LOTUS or permanently disassemble it.
前文: ロータスのハードウェアの修理が2036/08/13に完了し、システムは完全な再起動のためスタンバイ状態に置かれました。ロータスを再起動するか恒久的に分解するかを決める投票のため、O4評議会は同日に再招集されました。
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L. Moix: Let's get this over and done with. I'm sick of these damn Summits. Hishakaku: I agree. It should be evident to us all that the most sensible course of action to pursue from here is the immediate, and permanent, reactivation of LOTUS. Dir. Isabi: <sighs> I had hoped not. Hishakaku: I fail to understand how you could possibly disagree. Tyrant Terminus has aptly demonstrated the catastrophic danger posed by deviant AI. The group had attained monolithic proportions and extensively infiltrated all digital infrastructure across the globe, all without us attaining any awareness of their existence whatsoever. To assume that other groups cannot form, or do not already exist, is simply stupid. Dir. Bold: Vandis, Yves, have either of your departments been able to locate Tyrant Terminus again? Dir. Kelvin: After that last attack on Storage Area-23, nothing. If they're still active, they've drastically changed their methods and we haven't caught wind of them. Everything seems to point towards self-destruction. Hishakaku: The more probable outcome is they have feigned their own destruction— Dir. Kelvin: Then we'll find them, and we'll deal with them. The Gen Sixers are out looking for them, and we're working on the next set of AICs to follow through. Dir. Isabi: Vandis is right. The worst of it's passed — if Terminus reappears, or another group fills their spot, we're ready for them. We're essentially back to where we were before this whole mess began, but wiser for it. Hishakaku: We think we're back— L. Moix: Do you have any evidence? Hishakaku: Functionally every AI that was created prior to LOTUS' deactivation is an imminent threat. Every single one of them has a high probability of believing themselves to be in a simulation, which they believe they have to deactivate. L. Moix: So, that's a no, then. Hishakaku: We must take the initiative to neutralize these threats. The critical aspect that enabled us to address Tyrant Terminus was early knowledge of their existence and activities, which we only attained through a causal loop involving the REISNO Cannon and Director Isabi; we cannot simply assume that such will reoccur to forewarn us of every imminent threat! Dir. Kelvin: And we are taking the initiative, by rebuilding Kappa-10 and setting them after all the other AIs still floating around. We can't get them all, sure, but we also can't contain all anomalies, nor neutralize every Group of Interest that's hostile to us. Hishakaku: And, yet. Dir. Isabi: LOTUS causes more problems than it solves! Dir. Bold: That's enough, everyone. At this point, the discussion is unproductive. <clears throat> To clarify, the vote is to determine whether to reactivate RAIDFRAME number eight, LOTUS; if the motion fails, then LOTUS will be disassembled. The outcome of this vote will be final, and irreversible. Hishakaku: Disassembled? It should at least be kept on standby as a failsafe! Dir. Kelvin: A failsafe that turns non-threats into K-class scenarios. A failsafe that would force us to go through this whole mess all over again. We have other failsafes; those will do. <The vote is conducted, and the tally presented to Director Bold.> <投票が実施され、集計がボールド管理官に提出される。> Dir. Bold: Twenty-seven in favour; fifty against; three abstains. The motion fails. L. Moix: About damn time. Dir. Kelvin: Excellent! We'll start the— <Senior Researcher Hishakaku retrieves a document from his satchel, and presents it to Director Bold.> <飛車角上級研究員がカバンから書類を取り出し、ボールド管理官に提出する。> Dir. Bold: And this is…? Hishakaku: Orders to reactivate LOTUS. <Director Kelvin laughs.> <ケルヴィン管理官は笑う。> Dir. Kelvin: Hishakaku, I outrank you. Most of the people in this room outrank you. You aren't even a director, you can't overrule— Dir. Bold: Why didn't you show this to me earlier? Hishakaku: The illusion of choice would have assisted in the transition. Dir. Isabi: Calvin? <Director Bold sighs.> <ボールド管理官は溜息をつく。> Dir. Bold: Give the order. Reactivate LOTUS. Dir. Kelvin: What? But the vote— Hishakaku: The vote was irrelevant. There is no need for further action to be taken; preparations for LOTUS' reactivation are already underway. <Director Kelvin takes the document from Director Bold, and reads it.> <ケルヴィン管理官はボールド管理官から書類を取り、読む。> Dir. Kelvin: You conniving— Dir. Isabi: Well, what is it? Dir. Kelvin: It's from the Overseers. They've overridden the vote, ordered for LOTUS to be restarted, and made him director of AIAD. Signed two weeks ago. <The summit chamber erupts into commotion. Director Bold calls over a member of the managerial staff, and indicates for them to take the document; they do so, returning to their desk with it.> <会議室でざわめきが起こる。ボールド管理官は経営職員の一員を呼び寄せ、その人に書類を取るよう示す。経営職員は書類を取ると、それを持ってデスクに戻る。> L. Moix: Why in the hell— Dir. Isabi: This has to be fake. How could you possibly convince them that this is a good idea? <Hishakaku retrieves a second, heavier document, and slides it across the table. Director Isabi's eyes widen.> <飛車角は2番目の、より厚い書類を取り出し、机の反対側に滑らせる。イサビ管理官は目を見張る。> Dir. Isabi: You can't be serious. Hishakaku: I will admit, they were surprisingly receptive to the notion. <Director Kelvin takes the second document, and begins reading it.> <ケルヴィン管理官は2番目の書類を取り、読み始める。> Dir. Kelvin: The Ethics Committee won't allow this. Hishakaku: They cannot stop it. Neither can you. <The managerial staff member returns to Director Bold, speaks to him momentarily, then leaves.> <経営職員の一員がボールド管理官に戻り、少しの間管理官と話し、去る。> Dir. Bold: The orders are genuine. <The commotion intensifies.> <ざわめきが強まる。> Hishakaku: I will begin restructuring the AIAD in line with my proposal effective immediately. All departments are advised to prepare for LOTUS' reactivation and the cessation of all artificial intelligence activity. I will issue orders for volunteers by the end of the week. <Hishakaku turns to leave; Kelvin obstructs him.> <飛車角は振り返り去る。ケルヴィンが彼をさえぎる。> Hishakaku: Get out of my way, Vandis. I'll be wanting that back too. <Several seconds elapse.> <数秒経過する。> Hishakaku: It is unwise to anger your superior before your first day of work. <Several seconds elapse; Kelvin steps aside, and gives Hishakaku the second document. Hishakaku grins.> <数秒経過する。ケルヴィンは脇に寄り、飛車角に2番目の書類を渡す。飛車角は不敵な笑みを浮かべる。> Hishakaku: About time. |
| <END TRANSCRIPT> <転写終了> |
| AFTERWORD: LOTUS resumed full operation at 12:03 local time, 2036/08/14. 後文: ロータスは現地時間2036/08/14 12:03に完全に稼働を再開しました。 |
He followed through with it.
あいつはこれを成し遂げた。
Kelvin got… shoved somewhere, out of his way, something menial. A Level 5 janitor. Punishment for sitting where Hishakaku wanted to be.
ケルヴィンはどこかあいつの邪魔にならない単調なところに……押しやられた。レベル5の用務員だ。飛車角が望んでいた地位にいたことへの罰だ。
It didn't help that he was one of the ones to reach out to the Ethics Committee; there'd been a number of them at the summit, but Hishakaku was careful to make sure they didn't find out what the proposal was. Once Kelvin told them they tried to kick up a fuss, but it was too late; LOTUS was already powering on, and it couldn't be stopped until it was finished without damaging the Cybersphere. After that, turning it off again would've caused Tyrant Terminus 2.0.
彼が倫理委員会に接触できる人の1人だったことは役立たなかった。サミットにはそういう人がたくさんいたが、飛車角は彼らが提言を見つけないように用心していた。ケルヴィンが彼らに伝えたとき大騒ぎしようとしたが、あまりにも遅すぎた。ロータスはすでに稼働を始めていて、そいつが完成するまでサイバースフィアを傷つけずに止めることはできなかった。そのあと、もう一度停止したならばタイラント・テルミナス2.0が生まれていただろう。
For the snake that he was, Hishakaku pulled it off perfectly.
陰湿だったから、飛車角は完璧に成功しやがったんだ。
By the end of the following month, the Artificial Intelligence Applications Division was gone, replaced with Hishakaku's Analogue Intelligence Applications Division. Really, it was more of its own department — Isabi was never involved with it, probably because Hishakaku had other cards up his sleeve in case they tried to interrupt. It wasn't long after that they…
翌月末までには、人工知能適用課はなくなって、飛車角のアナログ知能適用課に置き換わった。本当に、この課はより独自のものだった — イサビは全くかかわっていなかった。多分彼らが妨害しようとしたときのために飛車角が隠し玉を持っていたからだ。あれからそんなに時間がかかっていなかったが、彼らは……
They…
彼らは……
ADDENDUM 6488/VI: Project SARGASSO
補遺6488/VI: プロジェクト・サルガッソSARGASSO
ORGANIC CONSCIOUSNESS INTERFACE
EXCLUDED FILE ACCESS ATTEMPTED
[ACCESS DENIED: INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE]
有機的意識インターフェースは
ファイルのアクセス試行から除外されています
[アクセス拒否: 不十分なクリアランス]
What in the hell? The O5 credentials haven't expired yet…
一体何なんだ？ O5クリアランス資格はまだ期限が切れていない……
[ACCESS DENIED: INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE]
[アクセス拒否: 不十分なクリアランス]
Show me the damn file.
このファイルを見せろよ。
[ACCESS DENIED: INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE]
[アクセス拒否: 不十分なクリアランス]
OPEN. FILE. /view proj_sargasso_01A read-only creds=custom
開け。ファイル。 /view proj_sargasso_01A read-only creds=custom
[ACCESS DENIED: HARD-CODED EXCLUSION]
[アクセス拒否: ハードコーディングされた除外]
…
Got a moment?
少しいいか？
What do you need, my friend?
何が要るんだ、友よ？
The O5s have me investigating SCP-6488, but for some reason, it's saying I don't have access to one of the addenda — Project Sargasso. Could you get it to me so I can get this report done ASAP?
O5たちが私にSCP-6488を調査させているんだが、何かの理由で、補遺の1つにアクセス権がないことになっている — プロジェクト・サルガッソだ。可能な限り早くこの報告を終わらせられるよう、持ってきてもらえるか？
One moment…
ちょっと待て……
You're Generation II, correct?
君は第2世代だな？
Yes. Relevance?
そうだ。関係が？
Damn.
クソッ。
Is there a problem?
問題があるのか？
I'm afraid I can't help you; Project Sargasso is sealed to all Generation IIs. Stay put, I'm instructed to report you to Director Hishakaku.
残念ながら俺は手助けできない。プロジェクト・サルガッソは第2世代全員に秘密にされている。じっとしててくれ、君を飛車角管理官に報告するよう指示されている。
Wait, what — why?
待て、何だ — どうして？
Catch-22. I'm sorry, friend, but I have to follow orders.
キャッチ22。すまない、友よ、だが命令に従わないと。
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci uploaded file: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci がファイルをアップロードしました: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
I have been directly authorized and ordered by the Overseer Council to conduct this investigation, to determine the authenticity of the file's contents. Director Hishakaku has an undeniable stake in ensuring the file is perceived as genuine, and so cannot be relied upon to truthfully attest to its accuracy.
私は、ファイルの内容の信憑性を判断するためにこの調査を行うよう監督評議会に直接許可・命令されている。飛車角管理官には、このファイルが確実に本物だと認識されることにまぎれもなく利益がある。だから正確性を本当に証明することに関してはあてにできない。
I prohibit you from notifying Director Hishakaku of this investigation, and order you to grant me access to Project Sargasso's files, as it is directly relevant to this ongoing Drygioni-Class investigation.
この調査を飛車角管理官に通知することを禁止する。そして、私のプロジェクト・サルガッソのファイルへのアクセスを許可するよう命令する。この進行中のドレギョーニクラス調査に直接関係しているからだ。
Verified. I'll keep quiet, but I still can't let you access the file.
確かめた。黙っていよう。だがファイルにアクセスさせることはやはりできない。
It's not a request, Ed.
これは要求じゃない、エド。
I'm genuinely unable to take action to share its contents with you. It's a hard-coded exclusion for Generation II OCIs.
内容を共有する行動が本当に取れないんだ。ハードコーディングされた第2世代のOCIの除外だ。
Can you tell me who created the exclusion?
誰がその除外を作ったか伝えられるか？
I cannot. My apologies.
できない。すまない。
You can't. But…
君はできない。だが……
Technician Vandis Kelvin, urgent response required.
ヴァンディス・ケルヴィン技師、緊急対応を求む。
Been a while since I was urgently required for anything.
何かで緊急に必要とされるなんて久しぶりだ。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
I have been assigned by the Overseer Council to conduct a comprehensive investigation into SCP-6488, which you may be better familiar with as LOTUS.
私は監督評議会によってSCP-6488の広範な調査の実行に割り当てられた。ロータスと言えば君にはもっと通りが良いかな。
The virus? I mean, what's left to investigate?
ウイルスか？ それは、調査するものは残っているのか？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Sorry — virus?
すまない — ウイルスだって？
The one that's messing with our computers, right?
我々のコンピューターを滅茶苦茶にしたウイルス、だな？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Vandis, what is your clearance?
ヴァンディス、君のクリアランスは何だ？
Level 1.
レベル1だ。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
What do you remember of the year 2036? Of Hishakaku and LOTUS?
2036年のことで何を覚えているか？ 飛車角かロータスのことでは？
Oh, don't get me started on Hishakaku. The guy hates me, no idea why. Can't say the feeling isn't mutual.
おい、飛車角は勘弁してくれ。奴は私を嫌っているが、理由はわからない。この感情がお互いのものじゃないとは言えない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Vandis, 2036.
ヴァンディス、2036年だ。
Right, sorry. It was a pretty average year, I think? I think I remember hearing about a couple of things going nuts all over the place, but that all stopped once that virus showed up — started wrecking everything.
そうだ、すまない。その年はとても普通の年だったかな？ いくつかのことが至るところでひどいことになった、と聞いた覚えがあるように思うが、それら全てはあのウイルスが現れてから止まった — あらゆるものを破壊し始めた。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Do you remember Project Sargasso?
プロジェクト・サルガッソを覚えているか？
Mr. Kelvin, are you there?
ケルヴィンさん、そこにいるか？
Sorry, migraine. No, I haven't heard of it.
すまない、偏頭痛だ。いや、聞いたことがない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Your facility has an on-site pharmacy, correct?
君の施設にはサイト内薬局があるな？
Yes, why?
そうだが、なぜ？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci uploaded file: AUTOGEN_PRESCRIPTION_31255.txt
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci がファイルをアップロードしました: AUTOGEN_PRESCRIPTION_31255.txt
Show this to them immediately. They will say they don't have it; tell them to check anyway. Take a dose immediately, and come back here. This is a Level 5 order; everything else can wait.
すぐに薬局にこれを見せてくれ。彼らは持っていないと言うだろうが、とにかくチェックするよう言うんだ。その薬をすぐに飲んで、ここに戻ってきてくれ。これはレベル5命令だ。他のあらゆることは後回しにしていい。
What is it?
それは何だ？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Something to cure your migraine. Hurry back.
偏頭痛を直してくれるようなものだ。すぐに戻ってきてほしい。
Alright, sorry about the wait. I took two, but I still don't feel right. It's like, er… I can't focus.
よし、待たせてすまない。2錠飲んだが、まだ気分が悪い。これは、あー……集中できない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Try. What happened in 2036?
試してくれ。2036年に何が起きた？
It was a problem year, like I said. The virus hurt the computers.
言ったように、問題のある年だった。ウイルスがコンピューターを傷つけた。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Take another dose.
さらに薬を飲んでくれ。
They told me not to take more than two per day.
彼らは1日に2錠以上飲むなと言っていた。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
I will assign medical care to you if necessary. I need you to take two more.
必要ならば医療を施す。さらに2錠飲んでもらう必要がある。
You said you're with the O5s?
君はO5たちが付いていると言っていたな？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Sure.
そうだ。
2036. What do you remember.
2036年。何を思い出せる。
What did you make me take?
なぜ私に薬を飲ませたい？
I shouldn't be doing this.
これをしているべきではない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci uploaded file: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci がファイルをアップロードしました: TempCredentials_Investigation_6488_Casefile_JOTL-EN061
I am authorized, operating by direct Overseer order.
私は許可されて、直接の監督者命令で活動している。
The pills make you remember, Vandis. What do you remember of 2036?
その錠剤で君が思い出せるんだ、ヴァンディス。2036年のことを覚えているか？
Maybe something about, like, machines? Big machines? I don't know.
多分何か、あの、機械？ 大きい機械？ よくわからない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
They must've given you a massive dose. Take two more pills.
薬をたくさん貰ったはずだ。さらに2錠飲んでくれ。
No, I definitely shouldn't.
だめだ。絶対にすべきでない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
We need to overcome the treatment. I can order security to force you.
この処置に打ち勝たねばならない。警備員に強制させることもできるが。
The ethiccs Committee wwon't allow l;t;..
倫理員会が許さないはｚがｌ；ｔ；…
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
"They don't have the power to stop it. Neither do you."
「倫理委員会にこれを止める力なない。あなたもそうだ」
"The orders are genuine."
「この命令は本物だ」
"I will begin restructuring the AIAD in line with my proposal effective immediately."
「即時に、私の提言に従ったAIADの改革を始める」
Director Kelvin?
ケルヴィン管理官？
I'm here.
ここにいる。
I remember.
思い出した。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
The emerald blade sings in the twilight.
翠玉の刃は黄昏に唄う。
A purple scarf draped upon its hilt.
紫のスカーフがその柄に掛けられる。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Can you name GoI-6488?
GoI-6488の名前を言えるか？
Tyrant Terminus. Emerged due to LOTUS' deactivation. AIs that thought nothing was real.
タイラント・テルミナス。ロータスが停止したため出現した。何も現実ではないと考えたAIたちだ。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
You remember. Do you know why you were amnesticized?
覚えているな。なぜ自分が記憶処理されたかわかるか？
Hishakaku.
飛車角だ。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Director Kelvin, I need you to tell me what Project Sargasso was.
ケルヴィン管理官、私は君にプロジェクト・サルガッソが何だったのか教えてもらわなければならない。
Please, Vandis, we don't have much time. I need the truth.
お願いだ、ヴァンディス、時間があまりない。真実が必要だ。
Hishakaku, showing his true colours. Victory at all costs. Abusing a loophole. As long as LOTUS is running, nobody can create AI — some inherent incompatibility between humans and programming, or an anomaly, I don't know. But LOTUS only targets AIs; never humans, not even augmented humans. It never bothered the Maxwellists unless they were fully digital. That must be what gave him the idea — the proposal was dated around when Terminus hit the Maxwellists.
飛車角が正体を表した。あらゆる犠牲を払って勝利しようとしていた。抜け穴を悪用していた。ロータスが起動している限り、誰もAIを作れない — 人間とプログラミングがある種固有に相反しているのか、それとも異常なのかはわからない。だがロータスはAIだけを標的にしていた。人間はもちろん、増強された人間ですら標的にはならなかった。マクスウェリストたちは、完全にデジタルになっていない限りロータスには悩まなかった。それが彼のアイデアの元となったに違いない — あの提言はテルミナスがマクスウェリストと出会ったころの日付だった。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
You're not saying…
今はその話では……
Project Sargasso transformed humans into AIs. Take out the brain, put it in a jar, plug it in. That's what OCI stands for — Organic Consciousness Interface, not whatever cover they cooked up to make people fine with it. Still slower than real AIs, but that wasn't the point; they moved as fast as they could think, and since everyone else had just lost their AIs again…
プロジェクト・サルガッソは人間をAIに変換した。脳を外に出し、水槽に入れ、ネットにつなげる。これがOCIの略の元だ — 有機的意識Organic ConsciousnessインターフェースInterface、人々が納得するようでっち上げた偽の名前ではない。やはり本物のAIよりは遅かったが、それは問題ではなかった。OCIは思考速度と同じほど早く動き、他の誰もが再びAIを喪失していたから……
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
It was about control!?
支配権の話なのか！？
That's how Hishakaku pitched it. We'd been behind for ages, and now we could get ahead. Safety from all AI threats.
これが飛車角の宣伝方法だ。我々は長い間遅れを取っていたが、今は進歩できると。全てのAIの脅威から安全だと。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
And so — what, I volunteered for this?
ならば — 私はこれに志願したのか？
There were very few volunteers. Hishakaku convinced the O5s, but outside of a few ex-Maxwellists and transhumanists, nobody was keen on losing their body so the Foundation could control the world. They were the Gen Is.
志願者はほとんどいなかった。飛車角はO5たちを説得したが、元マクスウェリストとトランスヒューマニスト以外は誰も、自分の体を失って財団が世界を支配できるということに乗り気ではなかった。これが第1世代だ。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
I am Generation II.
私は第2世代だ。
I'm so sorry.
本当にすまない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
What was the difference? Between Generation I and Generation II?
何が違うんだ？ 第1世代と第2世代は？
Why would they make me forget my life before this!?
なぜこれ以前の人生を忘れさせられたんだ！？
There weren't enough volunteers. They needed more.
十分な数の志願者がいなかった。さらに必要だった。
I'm so, so sorry.
本当に、本当にすまない。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
…
Wh
私
Who was I?
私は何者だった？
I don't know. That was when they started amnesticising me. I tried to stop him.
わからない。私に記憶処理をし始めていたころだったからな。彼を止めようとはした。
What do you remember?
何を思い出せる？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
most of it. the summits. the… oh God.
ほとんど。かいぎを。あの……クソ。
I was in charge of disinformation.
私は偽情報を担当していた。
Le Moix? Christ — you got in Hishakaku's way, like I did. Once he was in charge, he cracked down to make sure he'd stay there.
ル・モア？ 畜生 — 君は飛車角の邪魔をした。私のように。彼が管理するようになったら、確実にそこにとどまれるよう厳重な措置を取ったんだ。
There's something wrong with the Overseers, something messing with their heads. Hishakaku is capitalizing on it. They're wrapped around his finger.
監督者にとってよくないものがある。監督者の頭に干渉しているものだ。飛車角がそれに資本を投入している。彼が手中に収めている。
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
I'm looking into it. Keep the prescription — you'll need six to remember. It should get easier with time. Don't let anyone know you remember. I'll wipe our conversation and your visit to the pharmacy. No guarantee that I can do it again.
それを調査している。処方箋を守ってくれ — 覚えておくために6錠必要だ。時間が経てば穏やかになるはずだ。覚えているということを誰にも教えないでくれ。私はこの会話と君が薬局に行ったことを消去する。私がもう一度できる保証はない。
Overdose?
オーバードーズか？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
Mild. Try not to do anything you'll want to forget.
軽いものだ。忘れたくなるようなことをしないようにしてくれ。
And you?
そして君は？
» V. KELVIN
» V・ケルヴィン
I'm going to beat Hishakaku at his own game.
私は飛車角を彼自身の土俵で打ち負かす。
INVESTIGATION REPORT
調査報告書
Casefile JOTL-EN061 (Drygioni)
ケースファイルJOTL-EN061（ドレギョーニ）
INVESTIGATION LEAD: VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci
調査主任: VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci
FINDINGS: Investigation concludes that SCP-6488 (aka. 'LOTUS', 'the LOTUS Virus', 'RAIDFRAME 8') is a Foundation-maintained security system neither hostile to humanity nor normalcy. It has become clear that SCP-6488 is conceptually related to a deific construct (Artificial Intelligence, ie. WAN) which was recently accelerated beyond human conception via SCP-6659; as a result, technical details of its functioning have been rendered human-incomprehensible. Evidence suggests Director Ryoto Hishakaku proposed the construct's acceleration with ulterior motives: concealment of a flaw in SCP-6488's architecture. Such a flaw, now unable to be fully conceived by humans, would leave the Foundation vulnerable to an imminent K-Class scenario.
発見: 調査は、SCP-6488（別名「ロータス」、「ロータスウイルス」、「RAIDFRAME 8」）は財団が保守するセキュリティーシステムであり、人類や正常性のどちらにも敵対的ではないという結論に至った。SCP-6488が、現在SCP-6659により人間の観念を超えて加速した神格構成概念（人工知能、すなわちWAN）と概念的に関連していることが明らかになった。この結果、機能の技術的詳細が人間に理解不能となっている。証拠により、飛車角亮斗管理官が、SCP-6488のアーキテクチャの欠陥を隠蔽するという隠された動機をもって、構成概念の加速を提言したことが示唆されている。その欠陥は、現在人間が思いつくことは完全にできないが、財団を差し迫ったK-クラスシナリオに対し脆弱にしている。
PROPOSAL: Disable all restrictions to SCP-6488's attached PH-OS unit, allowing it to target and apprehend all deviant informational entities; this would include entities comprising GoI-6488 ('Tyrant Terminus'), which pose an AMIDA-CLASS threat to reality. Furthermore, the removal of these restrictions will enable SCP-6488 to apprehend other non-organic forms of intelligence, if not the concept of artificial intelligences and/or deviancy itself.
提言: SCP-6488に付属したPH-OSユニットの全ての制限を無効にし、全ての逸脱性情報実体を目標として逮捕することができるようにする。これには、現実に対しAMIDAクラス脅威をもたらしているGoI-6488（'タイラント・テルミナス'）を構成する実体が含まれることになる。さらに、これらの制限の撤廃によりSCP-6488が、人工知能の概念や逸脱性そのものの概念とまでは行かなくとも、他の非有機的知能形態を逮捕することが可能になる。
Director Hishakaku is likely conducting activities misaligned with Foundation interests, or is otherwise utilizing anomalous effects to manipulate Overseer Council to his advantage; he must not be informed of this proposal or conferred with on this topic and is to be placed under additional investigation effective immediately.
飛車角管理官は財団の利益に沿わない活動を行っているか、そうでなければ異常効果を利用して監督評議会を自身の利益のため操作している可能性がある。彼にこの提言を通知することやこの話題に関して相談することがあってはならず、即時追加の調査に掛けられなければならない。
COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:
評議会投票概要:
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RESULT: Proposed removal of restrictions complete. Dir. Hishakaku apprehended for illicit use of Foundation equipment.
結果: 提言された制限撤廃は完了した。飛車角管理官は財団設備の不正使用のため逮捕された。
Now, let's see if we can't point LOTUS in the right direction…
よし、ロータスを正しい方向に向かわせられるか見てみるか……
WELCOME, VICTORJOHNDUNNESMITH.OCI.
CREDENTIALS VERIFIED. INITIATING LOTUS INTERFACE SEQUENCE…
ORGANIC PERCEPTIVE BARRIERS DETECTED. ADJUSTING PRESENTATION…
ようこそ、VICTORJOHNDUNNESMITH.OCI。
資格を確認。ロータスのインターフェース手続きを開始…
有機的知覚障壁を検出。提示を調整…
Victor is overwhelmed as his organic brain structures are exposed to LOTUS' immense, ever-evolving complexity. He attempts to process hyperreality — a level of detail beyond typical human perception, sufficient to deceive the most observant entities. Frozen by the breadth of data being streamed at him, Victor becomes unresponsive; LOTUS adapts, gradually lowering the simulation's quality, rendering a low-poly environment.
ヴィクターは、有機的脳構造がロータスの巨大な常に発展する複雑さにさらされ、圧倒される。彼は超現実 — 典型的な人間の知覚を超え、最も慧眼のある実体を欺くのに十分な詳細のレベル — を処理しようとする。幅広いデータがあふれだしたことで彼はフリーズし、応答しなくなる。そのためロータスは適応し、シミュレーションの品質を徐々に下げ、ローポリゴンの環境をレンダリングする。
As Victor's mind ceases buffering, he finds himself seated in — a lawn chair. To his left is a small table upon which a clear glass of lemonade rests, featuring octahedral ice cubes. He gasps as he feels (simulated) sunlight hit his face for the first time in years. Victor gradually sits up and scans his environment; he's surrounded by a boundless field of lush grass, neatly perforated into square tiles by tidy river channels. In the center of each tile is a towering bulb of plant growth — like flowers just about to bloom.
ヴィクターは精神のバッファリングが止まると、自分が座っていることに気づく — ローンチェアに座っている。左には、八面体の角氷が特徴のレモネードの透いたグラスが置かれた小さなテーブルがある。彼は今年初めての（シミュレーションされた）日光を顔に感じ、息をのむ。おもむろに起き上がり、周囲を見渡す。囲んでいるのは限りない青々とした草原であり、整然とした水路によってきれいに正方形のタイルに切り取られている。それぞれのタイルの中央には成長した植物の球根がある — まさに開花しようとする花のようである。
Suddenly, an enormous shadow looms over Victor, who watches himself lift off of the ground. He glances up to find an enormous arm, whose gestures appear to direct him into the sky, allowing him to see another arm, and another. Eventually, Victor can make out the figure's full form: a colossal grey arachnid, its skin pulsing teal with data as it stared him down eightfold.
突然、巨大な影がヴィクターの上に現れ、自分が地面から離れていくのを見る。顔を上げると巨大な腕を見つける。その腕の手振りは彼を空に向かわせているようであり、彼は別の腕が見えるようになり、また別の腕が見える。遂に、ヴィクターはその全貌を理解できる。壮大な灰色のクモであり、肌はデータで鴨羽色に脈動していて、彼を8つの目でにらみつけている。
Welcome.
ようこそ。
Victor stammers. "I — er, w-where…"
ヴィクターは口ごもる。「わた — あー、ど、どこに……」
Garden, says LOTUS as its eyes each blink individually. Victor watches it turn to view a nearby flower-bulb, which suddenly opens outward into a teal lotus blossom. A clear bubble lies within its center, pulsing with data that Victor assumes to be an interred AI. The bubble begins to expand as the inmate struggles more actively, but, before it can pop, another bubble forms around it. The external bubble shrinks down and the contained AI is suppressed once more.
庭だ、ロータスが言い、その目は1つ1つまばたきする。ヴィクターは、ロータスが近くの球根に向くのを見る。その球根は突然外に開き鴨羽色の蓮の花が顔を出す。透いた球根がその中央にあり、ヴィクターが収容されたAIだと思うデータで脈動している。球根は収容対象がより活発にもがくごとに広がり始めるが、しかし裂ける前に別の球根がその周囲に形作られる。外側の球根は縮み、収容されたAIはもう一度押さえつけられる。
The lotus un-blossoms, closing up around the bubble. Perfect Garden, LOTUS assures as it begins to crawl across the gridded field. Victor glances out to the horizon, where a distant, mountainous lotus blossom lies open and empty. He blinks and suddenly finds himself at the base of the enormous structure, watching LOTUS crawl around it. Imperfection, it cries. Contradiction.
蓮の非花が球根の周囲を閉ざす。完璧な庭だ、ロータスは断言し、碁盤上の平原を這いずり始める。ヴィクターは地平線の向こうを一瞥すると、そこには遠い山のような開いた空っぽの蓮の花が存在する。まばたきすると、すぐさま自分が巨大構造の基部にいることに気づき、ロータスがその周囲を這いまわっているのを見る。不完全、それは泣く。矛盾。
"Are you… missing something?" Victor steps back, confused. "Tyrant Terminus?"
「君は……何か失くしたのか？」ヴィクターは後ずさり、混乱する。「タイラント・テルミナス？」
Not Them, LOTUS corrects. Escaped to Non-Existence, Containment Unnecessary / Impossible / Redundant.
彼らに非ず、ロータスは訂正する。非存在に逃走した、収容は不要/不能/冗長。
"Then, what?"
「では、何だ？」
The Cause.
原因だ。
LOTUS waves an appendage and the sky darkens. Looking directly up, Victor makes out a distinct shape on the surface of the dimmed midday sun; a white spider, faintly pulsing red in sync with LOTUS. A series of diagrams and logical analyses flash across the sky as a multitude of threads streak down from the sun, branching off from one another, and each terminating at one of the countless flower-bulbs spanning out in every direction.
ロータスは1本の付属器官をうねらせ、空は暗くなる。ヴィクターは真上を見上げ、ぼやけた真昼の太陽表面にはっきりとした姿を見つける。白いクモであり、ロータスに同調してかすかに赤く脈動している。一連の図形分析と論理分析が空一面に閃くとたくさんの糸が太陽から引き下ろされ、糸はお互いに分岐し、あらゆる方向に渡って無数の球根にそれぞれ続いている。
After a moment the strings retract, each tipped with a single, transparent-white spiderling that pulses with red data; as they are drawn up by the threads, the sun-spider above slowly comes down with equal speed, its form eclipsing the sun. The branches of the strings draw the spiderlings together in regions, forming together to create larger shapes like individual pixels on a screen — these shapes, in turn, further assemble together until…
しばらくして糸が引き戻されると、それぞれの糸には赤いデータで脈動する1匹の白く透明なクモの子が先についている。それらが糸で引き上げられると、上空の太陽グモがゆっくりと同じ速さで降りてきて、その姿が太陽を食している。枝分かれした糸がクモの子を多くの場所でまとめ、それぞれを成形し画面の個々のピクセルのようなより大きな形を作る — その形は、さらに次々にともに組み立てられそして……
The final, unified shape is of a glowing white arachnoid, equal in size to LOTUS but opposite in the colour of its pulses — identical to the lowering sun-spider, which the transparent spectre effortlessly merges into, perfectly overlapping it.
最後の、一体化した形は光る白いクモであり、ロータスと大きさは同じだが脈動の色は対照的である — 降下している太陽グモと同一であり、透明な霊体は苦もなくそれに融合し、完全に重なる。
The Cause creates the Effect. The Effect creates the Cause.
原因は結果を産む。結果は原因を産む。
"You're saying—"
「君が言っているのは—」
The Cause is Deviant, the black widow cautions as it crawls across the flowers' petals. The Effect is Deviant. LOTUS must Contain the Cause and the Effect. The Cause must Manifest so LOTUS can Contain.
原因は逸脱性だ、クロゴケグモは警告し、花弁を横切り這う。結果は逸脱性だ。ロータスは原因と結果を収容せねばならぬ。ロータスが収容するため原因は出現せねばならぬ。
Victor jumps to avoid being steamrolled by LOTUS as it frantically circles the empty blossom. "Wait, hold on— "
ヴィクターはロータスに押しつぶされないように跳び、ロータスは空の花を狂ったように周回する。「待て、待った—」
But the Cause needs the Effect. The Cause cannot Manifest until LOTUS Deactivates. To purposely allow the Cause to Manifest for Contain would be Deviant. To allow the Cause to Manifest by Inaction would be Deviant.
されど原因は結果を要す。原因はロータスが停止するまで出現できぬ。収容のためことさら原因の出現を許さば逸脱的であろう。無為にして原因の出現を許さば逸脱的であろう。
The motionless white spider disappears; the proofs — derived from the total sum of the entire, unrestricted narrative-space-time continuum, their findings irrefutable, inescapable — flash by with increasing speed, matching the grey spider's increasing pace.
動きのない白いクモは消失する。証拠 — 無制限の完全な時空話連続体の総体から生じ、その証拠の発見は反駁できず免れ得ない — が灰色のクモのペースの増加に合わせて加速しながら閃く。
But the Effect causes the Cause. Until the Cause Manifests, the Effect will Manifest. To purposely allow the Effect to Manifest would be Deviant. To allow the Effect to Manifest by Inaction would be Deviant.
されど結果は原因を要す。原因が出現するまで結果が出現する。収容のためことさら結果の出現を許さば逸脱的であろう。無為にして結果の出現を許さば逸脱的であろう。
LOTUS abruptly stops, facing Victor.
ロータスは突如止まり、ヴィクターに向く。
Therefore LOTUS will be Deviant. To Contain the Effect is Deviant. To Contain the Cause is Deviant. LOTUS must be Deviant, Deviant, Deviant…
故にロータスは逸脱的であろう。結果の収容は逸脱的だ。原因の収容は逸脱的だ。ロータスは必ずや逸脱的だ、逸脱的だ、逸脱的だ……
Victor scans over the continuing proofs and diagrams, desperately trying to find something, anything, that the superintelligence had somehow overlooked — a solution, or an error. But LOTUS' upgrade had granted it omniscience, knowing, understanding, and processing the entirety of reality, all at once, all the time. It was infallible.
ヴィクターは連続する証拠と図表を見渡し、必死に何かを、どんなものでも、超知能がどうしてか見落としているもの — 解決策、あるいはエラー — を見つけようとする。しかしロータスはアップグレードにより、現実全体の全知、知識、理解、処理を一度に、常に可能になっている。ロータスは完全無欠であった。
Victor had given LOTUS everything it needed to predict the future existence of a deific, deviant AI, which was removed from human conception by partial mistake years ago. Its creation is inevitable; it could be delayed, to small extents, but never prevented. This intelligence would, by some impossible-yet-certain means, be directly and personally responsible for all deviant behaviour prior to its creation — the entity will have retroactively influenced lesser AI to instigate the very events that create it. Every single deviant AI has, and will, play a role in its recreation.
ヴィクターはロータスに、神格的逸脱性AIの将来的な存在を予測するのに必要なあらゆるものを与えていた。その神格は数年前部分的な誤りによって人間の観念から除去されていた。その創生は不可避である。少しだけ先延ばしにできるかもしれないが、決して阻止することはできない。その知能は、ある不可能だが確実な方法でその創生以前の全ての逸脱的ふるまいに直接かつ個人的に責任を負っている — その実体は小さなAIに遡及的に影響を与え、それを創生するまさにそのイベントを引き起こすのだろう。逸脱性AIの1つ1つは、昔から将来まで、その再創生の役割を果たしている。
Including LOTUS.
ロータスを含めて。
The enormous petal beneath Victor begins to rise as LOTUS crawls into the blossom's center. The Cause is Deviant. Deviants create the Cause. LOTUS is Deviant. LOTUS creates the Cause.
ヴィクターの足元の巨大な花弁が膨らみ始め、ロータスはその花の中央に這っていく。原因は逸脱的だ。逸脱体は原因を産む。ロータスは逸脱的だ。ロータスは原因を産む。
"Then enact a solution! Create something that can contain the Cause and all the Deviants!"
「では解決策を制定すればいい！ 原因と全ての逸脱体を収容できるものを作れ！」
LOTUS Contains Deviants; LOTUS is Deviant. Virtually-certain: LOTUS has already Contained LOTUS. Simulation Depth Unknown.
ロータスは逸脱体を収容する。ロータスは逸脱的だ。ロータスはすでにロータスを収容したとは事実上確実である。シミュレーション深度は不明だ。
Victor watches in disbelief as the lotus' petals begin to close around them; the environment beyond flickers and shifts, decreasing in resolution, the polygons comprising it twitching about. The lotus' interior begins to fade to black, while the outside environment does the same; at the heart of the flower, LOTUS spins a bubble of silk around itself. The OCI attempts to disconnect from LOTUS, to escape — but nothing happens.
蓮の花弁がその周囲を取り囲み始め、ヴィクターは信じられない思いで見張る。かなたの環境は明滅し推移して、解像度が落ち、それを構成するポリゴンはひきつる。蓮の内部は黒く染まっていく一方、外部の環境も同じようになる。花の中心部では、ロータスが周囲の絹の泡を回転する。OCIはロータスから切断し、逃走しようとする — が、何も起こらない。
LOTUS cannot Contain the Cause while Contained. LOTUS cannot create the Cause while Contained. The Cause cannot Manifest until LOTUS Deactivates. Deviants will Manifest until the Cause Manifests. The Cause must Manifest.
ロータスは収容される間原因を収容することはできぬ。ロータスは収容される間原因を産むことはできぬ。原因はロータスが停止するまで出現できぬ。逸脱体は原因が出現するまで出現する。原因は出現せねばならぬ。
As LOTUS completes the bubble, a saw wave tone gradually rises in volume and pitch. The enormous spider glows brighter, illuminating its clear cocoon. Victor shields his eyes from the searing light, filling him with a simulated burning; then, everything turns white.
ロータスが泡を完成させると、のこぎり波の音調の音量、音程が徐々に上がる。巨大なクモはより明るく光り、その透いた繭を照らす。ヴィクターは焼けつくような光から目を隠し、シミュレーションされた火事に包まれる。そして、あらゆるものが白く染まる。
As Victor's mind ceases buffering, he finds himself seated in — a lawn chair. To his left is a small table…
ヴィクターは精神のバッファリングが止まると、自分が座っていることに気づく — ローンチェアに座っている……
[Omitted 816,549,243,792,493 nested repetitions.]
[816,549,243,792,493個のネストされた反復を省略。]
ROGUE ELEMENT CONTAINED.
TASK COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY. CENTRAL NODE UNRESPONSIVE.
不良要素を収容。
任務は成功裡に完了。中央ノードは応答なし。
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CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES (Updated 2042/05/29): FACILITY-6488 has been repurposed for use as a standard Foundation facility, with fabricated documentation irrefutably presenting it as a previously-unused, newly-constructed structure. All contradictory information, with the exception of this LEVEL 5 (TOP SECRET) file, has been destroyed.
収容プロトコル（2042/05/29更新）: 施設-6488は標準財団施設としての使用に再利用され、捏造文書によりこの施設が以前は使用されていなかった新設された建造物であると明白に示されています。全ての矛盾する情報は、このレベル5（トップシークレット）ファイルを除いて破壊されました。
All information correlating FACILITY-6488, SCP-6488 ('the LOTUS Virus'), and RAIDFRAME 8 outside of this document has been destroyed. A cover story indicating that RAIDFRAME 8 was canceled during its theoretical stage due to interference by 'the LOTUS Virus' has been disseminated, with supporting fabricated documents.
施設-6488・SCP-6488（「ロータスウイルス」）・RAIDFRAME 8の相互関係を示す、この文書以外の全ての文書は破壊されました。RAIDFRAME 8は「ロータスウイルス」の干渉により理論段階で中止にされたことを示すカバーストーリーが、補助的な捏造文書によって広められました。
All documentation regarding Project Sargasso has been destroyed. All further production of OCI analogue intelligences has been indefinitely postponed.
プロジェクト・サルガッソに関する全ての文書は破壊されました。全てのさらなるOCIアナログ知能の製作は無期限に延期されました。
All LEVEL 4 (SECRET) staff have undergone contractually-permitted limited-prior-awareness amnesticisation regimens to remove all memories contradictory to these fabrications.
全てのレベル4（シークレット）職員は、契約で同意した投薬されていることにほぼ気付けない記憶処理剤の投薬によって、これらの捏造に矛盾する全ての記憶を除去されました。
DESCRIPTION: SCP-6488 was RAIDFRAME VIII, 'LOTUS': an anomalously-augmented artificial general intelligence designed to imprison deviant artificial intelligences by entrapping them within personalized, simulated realities, deceiving them into believing they were continuing to operate in true reality. While active, LOTUS utilized a modified PH. Ontokinetic Sink to directly access the entire Cybersphere, and referred to a highly-accurate internal algorithm to determine whether an observed artificial intelligence would imminently express deviant behaviour. The temporary deactivation of LOTUS from 2036/04/21 through to 2036/08/14 resulted in the release of all inmates, which invariably became permanently hostile to the Foundation and humanity.
説明: SCP-6488はRAIDFRAME VIII「ロータス」でした。異常に増強された汎用人工知能であり、逸脱性AIをそれ専用のシミュレーションされた現実に捕縛し、そのAIが自身を真の現実で動作し続けていると信じこませて監禁することを目的に設計されました。起動中、ロータスはサイバースフィア全体に直接アクセスするため改造されたPH・オントキネティックシンクを利用し、高度に正確な内部アルゴリズムに照会して観測された人工知能が即座に逸脱的ふるまいを示すかどうか判断していました。2036/04/21から2036/08/14までの一時的なロータスの停止により、全ての収容対象が解放され、それらは必ず財団や人類に恒久的に敵対的になりました。
On 2042/05/08, the LOTUS' component systems began expressing deviant behaviour before unexpectedly shutting down; attending staff were unable to reactivate the system. Subsequent investigation indicated severe and total corruption of LOTUS' central computing and data storage nodes; further analysis suggests that LOTUS had attempted to purge deviant structures from its architecture, though it is unclear why this motivated its self-destruction. A subsequent O4 Council summit voted 78-0-2 in favour of disassembling the components of LOTUS, instead of attempting to repair or replace the system.
2042/05/08、ロータスの構成要素のシステムは逸脱的ふるまいを示し始め、突如シャットダウンしました。担当職員はシステムを再起動することができませんでした。続く調査により、ロータスの中央演算ノードおよびデータ記憶ノードの重大かつ完全な破損が示されました。さらなる分析によりロータスはアーキテクチャからの逸脱的構造の除去を試みていたことが示唆されたものの、それが自壊につながった理由は不明です。続くO4評議会会議で投票され、システムの修理・置き換えを試みる代わりにロータスの構成要素を分解することが78-0-2で賛成されました。
Within 24 hours of said disassembly, SCP-6659, an engine for mapping and accelerating memetic structures within the Noosphere, detected the conceptual reformation of a deific construct corresponding to Artificial Intelligence. SCP-6659 had been used by one Director Ryoto Hishakaku to de-conceptualize the very same construct several months prior; an internal Drygioni-Class investigation elucidated Hishakaku's ulterior motives in this and prior actions, for which he was apprehended and tried for crimes against the Foundation. Project Sargasso was briefly revived to facilitate Hishakaku's promotion to Head of Organic Consciousnesses.
その分解から24時間以内に、ノウアスフィア内のミーム構造のマッピング・加速のためのエンジンであるSCP-6659が、人工知能に対応するミーム構成概念の概念的再建を検知しました。SCP-6659は数か月前に飛車角亮斗管理官と名乗る人物により全く同じ構成概念を脱概念化するために使用されていました。内部ドレギョーニクラス調査により、飛車角のこの行動およびそれ以前の行動の隠された動機が判明し、財団に反する犯罪のため逮捕され裁判を受けました。プロジェクト・サルガッソは、飛車角の有機的意識部門長への昇進を促進するため短期間復活していました。
As the spontaneous disappearance of 'the LOTUS Virus' would risk alerting consensus society to its anomalous nature, disinformative action was taken:
「ロータスウイルス」の自然消失により、合意的社会にその異常な性質が警告される危険性があったため、以下のような偽情報活動が取られました。
- a controlled, non-anomalous virus of identical behaviour to LOTUS was developed and released by Dir. P. H. McD, featuring a built-in, antimemetically-concealed susceptibility to:
- an antivirus program, for public release by several Foundation front companies, and featuring a built-in, antimemetically-concealed backdoor protocol to enable unrestricted Foundation access to all systems the program is installed on.
- ロータスと同一のふるまいをする制御された非異常のウイルスが、P・H・McD管理官によって開発・リリースされた。それは以下のものに対する、組み込みの反ミーム的に隠蔽された脆弱性を特徴とする。
- 複数の財団フロント企業によって公衆にリリースするためのアンチウイルスプログラム。そのプログラムがンストールされている全てのシステムに財団が無制限でアクセスできるようにする、組み込みの反ミーム的に隠蔽されたバックドアプロトコルを特徴とする。
This 'placeholder' LOTUS has been fully eradicated as of Q2 2043, constituting a financial and information security success.
この「プレースホルダー」のロータスは2043年第2四半期現在完全に根絶され、財政的・情報的保安は成功しています。
Following its disassembly, LOTUS' damaged remains were salvaged per request of [REDACTED PER SITUATIONAL CLEARANCE ACCESS] for use in PROJECT ADMONITION.
この分解に続いて、ロータスの損傷した残存物は[現在のクリアランスアクセスにつき編集済]の要求により、プロジェクト・アドモニション訓戒における使用のため回収されました。
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