Chapter Thirty
The Algorithm
Admiral Nemo was a dolphin. He was also, largely considered by those who
could reasonably judge such matters, and who knew of his existence, as the
smartest being on the planet.
Imagine if Stephen Hawking was born a dolphin,
but instead of physics, he had a pretty thorough understanding of everything.
Nemo was born in a research laboratory, more
on that later. His intelligence was
genetically augmented. He had telekinesis
and telepathy. His makers named him Nemo
after the Pixar fish movie, but he came to prefer Verne’s anti-social anti-hero
as an inspiration.
The biggest part of his plan involved and
algorithm that he had created. Or, at
least, that’s what he told us, and we believed him.
The Algorithm was based on machine learning, across
multiple objectives, with the neat benefit of being able to manipulate human
psychology and behavior on a macro level.
So much of that was a lie, of course.
It always had a single objective.
But, how could we have known that?
(c) Copyright 2020 by Diana Hignutt
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