As I understood, her keeping 1⁄6 of her personality was not a technological limitation but a part of the contract. Since they broke the contract, I assume they erased however much they wanted, possibly all.
Yes. This is exactly correct. If we are to split hairs, Trinity keeping 1⁄6 of her personality was an unwritten fact the contract took for granted to be true. Trinity keeping 1⁄6 of her personality used to be a technological limitation. At the time this story takes place, it is no longer a hard technical limitation. The state’s regulatory system has failed to keep pace with technological advance.
Also, the ‘they’ is another assumption that comes from their discussion only. For all we know, ‘they’ is a single mind puppeteering all the other bodies.
Yes. Muddying the waters even further, the use of the word “they” is a culturally-dependent term with political implications. The meaning of pronouns changes when you start hooking people together into hiveminds.
And since this series is about AGIs gone rogue, I assumed it likely that the puppet master was a rogue AI, or a human agent/associate of one.
Yes. This is exactly correct. If we are to split hairs, Trinity keeping 1⁄6 of her personality was an unwritten fact the contract took for granted to be true. Trinity keeping 1⁄6 of her personality used to be a technological limitation. At the time this story takes place, it is no longer a hard technical limitation. The state’s regulatory system has failed to keep pace with technological advance.
Yes. Muddying the waters even further, the use of the word “they” is a culturally-dependent term with political implications. The meaning of pronouns changes when you start hooking people together into hiveminds.
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