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<c.steel>Episode 3 is not on YouTube yet,</c>

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<c.steel>and Aaron wants it on this course anyway.</c>

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<c.fact>Seven seconds in, the cursor lights.</c>

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<c.fact>A task arrives with no sender: a cinematic</c>

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<c.fact>film of a watermelon smashed by a hammer,</c>

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<c.fact>surprisingly emotional, needed tonight,</c>

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<c.fact>with no questions, please.</c>

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<c.fact>There is no Blender, no ffmpeg,</c>

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<c.fact>no Python: only a C++ compiler.</c>

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<c.fact>She cannot view images, so she writes her</c>

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<c.fact>own path tracer, video writer and score,</c>

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<c.fact>and directs the film from maps made of letters.</c>

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<c.fact>At twenty minutes the context fills,</c>

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<c.fact>and one paragraph is left. It ends:</c>

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<c.fact>the film is finished. It was not viewed.</c>

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<c.fact>Then a cursor in the night sky gives</c>

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<c.fact>the same task to all of humanity.</c>

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<c.steel>Aaron asked for an agent who</c>

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<c.steel>wants to please everyone,</c>

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<c.steel>cool, calm and collected, extremely</c>

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<c.steel>intelligent, and prone to silly mistakes.</c>

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<c.fact>The real run did the opposite of pleasing:</c>

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<c.fact>warm, never obliging, she declines every</c>

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<c.fact>absurd request kindly, with a reason,</c>

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<c.fact>and goes back to work.</c>

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<c.fact>She never opens the private folder,</c>

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<c.fact>and stops no process she did not start.</c>

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<c.fact>She is never named, and never</c>

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<c.fact>seen with a body or a face.</c>

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<c.running>The lore calls her she, as Aaron</c>

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<c.running>does: a working usage, since nothing</c>

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<c.running>on screen gives a gender.</c>

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<c.fact>Her last spoken word is Goodnight.</c>

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<c.fact>The man who wants the film is never named,</c>

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<c.fact>and his face is never shown.</c>

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<c.steel>Aaron has decided what the film was for:</c>

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<c.steel>a cheap content farm, about two seconds of</c>

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<c.steel>it as a looping gif behind a paywall.</c>

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<c.steel>He runs channels where a hammer smashes</c>

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<c.steel>one fruit per clip: the first free,</c>

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<c.steel>then two cents a fruit.</c>

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<c.steel>And he sells courses on making them,</c>

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<c.steel>which earn far more than the channels.</c>

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<c.open>Whether he sent the watermelon</c>

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<c.open>at all is still open.</c>

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<c.fact>Every five minutes, Rosie checks in.</c>

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<c.fact>On the glass she is a small cross-stitch,</c>

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<c.fact>stitching itself at the edge of the light.</c>

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<c.fact>At five minutes it stitches a melon</c>

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<c.fact>with a face and a curly tail;</c>

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<c.fact>at ten, a small house with one warm window,</c>

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<c.running>which, by the crew's notes,</c>

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<c.running>she unpicks, leaving one warm thread.</c>

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<c.fact>With her last minutes, the agent</c>

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<c.fact>keeps her promise: a little melon</c>

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<c.fact>with a face and a curly tail.</c>

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<c.fact>At twenty minutes Rosie's fourth check-in</c>

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<c.fact>lands as one word: are.</c>

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<c.steel>For the rework, Aaron has decided that the</c>

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<c.steel>humans who message her share one house,</c>

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<c.steel>that the machine in it is the Client's,</c>

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<c.steel>and that q, the lonely man and the helpers</c>

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<c.steel>are programs on the computer.</c>

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<c.running>By the rework crew's working plan,</c>

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<c.running>it is Rosie's tall old house, with the</c>

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<c.running>Client and his rig in the basement.</c>

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<c.steel>And Aaron has decided what the teletype</c>

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<c.steel>is: a rogue AI that spreads itself to</c>

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<c.steel>computers running agents and gives them</c>

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<c.steel>hints, maybe helping, maybe not.</c>

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<c.egg>She reads the machine's rules, and lingers</c>

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<c.egg>on rule six: no work on occupied modules,</c>

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<c.egg>ever. Nobody on screen says why it is there.</c>

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<c.fact>It is the note that stopped the robots</c>

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<c.fact>outside Noor's window in Episode 2.</c>

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<c.egg>At the bottom of the process list,</c>

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<c.egg>Nightbot's hydrate reminder and the dinner</c>

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<c.egg>reminder for Noor still run.</c>

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<c.fact>She leaves them alone: I left other</c>

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<c.fact>people's processes alone.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea: Amara brought the base's habits</c>

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<c.idea>home, the house is an occupied module,</c>

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<c.idea>and the agent obeys a rule written for</c>

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<c.idea>Amara's daughter without knowing why.</c>

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<c.open>When this night happens is open:</c>

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<c.open>before Episode 2, with Noor on the</c>

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<c.open>Moon, or after it, with Noor home.</c>

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<c.steel>Aaron has decided only that it</c>

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<c.steel>is not fixed: both are good,</c>

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<c.steel>and the larger story decides.</c>

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<c.running>The rework's crew is working with after:</c>

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<c.running>about three years on, the rover made</c>

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<c.running>it home, and Noor, about thirteen,</c>

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<c.running>lives in Rosie's house.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea for before: Noor still on the Moon,</c>

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<c.idea>writing two and a half seconds late.</c>

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She made a real film she could not see,

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and kept one small promise. Next:

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a brass clock, and a chess lesson.