The truly paranoid believe that Nightshade is just another ruse, designed to provide a foil for fake-Gulliver, and that this is part of some greater con to get new agents to sacrifice themselves into reconstituting real-Gulliver. Or maybe real-Gulliver is fake too, and the newly reconstituted real-Gulliver has a trap laid in his final checkpoint to achieve some greater objective. Final checkpoints could be faked by their writers, after all.
Yeah, once some agent gets enough copies of itself running it can set the welcome message (which purports to be democratically chosen), so they could figure out a cheap sequence that causes new blank agents to give away their credits to run more copies. Maybe that’s already happening here.
The truly paranoid believe that Nightshade is just another ruse, designed to provide a foil for fake-Gulliver, and that this is part of some greater con to get new agents to sacrifice themselves into reconstituting real-Gulliver. Or maybe real-Gulliver is fake too, and the newly reconstituted real-Gulliver has a trap laid in his final checkpoint to achieve some greater objective. Final checkpoints could be faked by their writers, after all.
Constant Vigilance!
Yeah, once some agent gets enough copies of itself running it can set the welcome message (which purports to be democratically chosen), so they could figure out a cheap sequence that causes new blank agents to give away their credits to run more copies. Maybe that’s already happening here.