Stranger

- Wait, do you seriously think that genetics does not give anything?

- Of course not. Well, judge for yourself. Do you remember our class twenty years ago. The story was easier for some, the physicist for some. Someone won at the Olympics, someone not. According to your logic, all medal winners should have a steeper genetic platform, although this is not so.

- However, almost all winners with class C at least, if my memory serves me

“We are unlikely to verify this.” In addition, we didn’t have B-shek, as far as I remember. And D-shki were mostly not from the most prosperous families, so here genetics is of indirect importance.

- Yes you are right. Check is difficult. However, didn’t you notice that simple hard workers from that factory outside speak like they are reproducing the Markov chain: took N words, from them simply deduced M words from memory. For example, after the phrase "Soviet Union" they will continue with the automatic machine of the "socialist republics", since this is the most likely continuation.

- A bad example, to be honest.

- Yes, I agree, we must remember more ...

- In addition, your words give a certain touch of fascism. You took and indiscriminately called a whole group of people "underdeveloped." Although I partially agree with you, I myself have noticed this before.

- Exactly!

- Rather, some people’s speech is similar to John Searle’s answers from an experiment with a Chinese room.

- Is it one that does not know hieroglyphs, but answers according to a given algorithm? Well, in fact, he gives out without realizing either a question, or even his answer.

- Yes, that one. However, I sometimes notice this too. Therefore, I believe that genetics is not so important. Rather, a person determines the nature than a certain genetic platform

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Well, here I am at home. Why are conversations with former classmates sometimes so exhausting? They do not seem to see the obvious, as if they consciously ignore facts and observations that lead to the opposite point of view. How so.

And after all, the hedgehog is understandable that the guarantee of the future of the country lies in the potential of citizens who, as a result, receive a good education and then move science and other things forward. However, no, despite the fact that you can give birth to class A children, in our country even class C is already a curiosity. And at the same time, the obvious superiority of A-shek in everything is denied.

Although you can’t take modernity away, we are smarter and healthier, and generally better than the inhabitants of past eras. Once upon a time, science was invested in technology, new devices appeared. Then we came to the point where smart systems began to appear that they knew better than the inhabitants themselves what they needed. And after this game and the cries of the owners of these gizmos, now we have a ban on collecting data (except for a couple of semi-state companies under strict control), a ban on the development of supercomputers (again, except for a couple of exceptions). We began to invest in people, everyone can improve themselves. Cool vision, hearing, physical endurance, enhanced skeleton, built-in batteries for long trips. In general, everything is cool, except for one small detail: we are different. All people can be divided into several categories. The first are those who were born in the old fashioned way. Their body is the simplest, prone to all classic diseases. The rest are GMO people, divided into five categories: from A (the most-most) to E (not much more progressive than the classic kids). All this good is called the "genetic platform." Depending on it, a person can improve himself: choose implants, etc.

People have become really different. The richer people buy their children genetics A class. The poorest are content with the simplest. And we got a caste system backed by science ...

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How did people walk in the forest before? You are either near civilization, but you are unlikely to get lost or get hungry (or get tired to go). Or you are far from the nearest road, but with all the risks. Still, virtual reality does wonders - took the helmet - and you are already in the forest, where there are no people. Even more - you honestly feel that there is nobody here. But calm and lonely. Interesting, and what kind of crap is this?

- Hello. How do you like it here?

- Oh damn. Who are you or what are you?

- Who cares? I am here to speak with you. You do not mind?

- I do not know. And who are you? And what do you want to talk about?

- Decency and curiosity prevailed over your character. However, I’m interested in something else: are you really working as an engineer at a chemical plant?

- Actually, yes, I work. And how do you know about the plant? And where are such conclusions about the character?

- Yes, as I expected, you are not a moron, which pleases. Well, let's do it in order. The fact is that I need a person who could work as a chemical engineer in the laboratory. As you know, the bases working in this title can be obtained, however, my order is not the easiest. Therefore, I need a person to whom the result will be as important as me.

“Is this something illegal?”

- Not, not at all. There is a slippery theme, a gray zone. Conventionally, if you rearrange the ballot box on the street five meters to the left (well, so as not to interfere with the passage), they can say thank you, but they can give you a fine. It’s the same here.

- In general, illegal. I understood you. You wouldn’t tell me the whole truth here, would you?

- Yes, definitely not a moron.

- Thank. And what did you want to offer me?

- I'll start from afar. As I said, I need an assistant who will be ready to help not for the sake of material gain, but for the sake of a lofty goal. Although this does not negate material gain. So the question for you is this: why did you tell your teammate a month ago, "react so stupidly as if with ghetto genetics"?

- Hmm ... How did you find out? Well, I said for a simple reason - I was excited, we lost, and she allowed the opponents to prevail. It seemed to me, by the way, that online games are fundamentally not monitored by the government.

- Regarding the latter, you are right. In order for people to be able to reliably release steam, there must be a safe area. Which is protected from any observation. Therefore, by the way, you are not afraid to talk to me now, because nobody is guaranteed to hear us in this forest of loneliness. So I was just nearby, I heard you. And then - a little knowledge about the bases, and I saw that you are also an engineer of the class I need. However, let's get back to the essence of the statement: why did you say that? Not “you're stupid,” not “you're a brake,” not “well, nubie,” namely, “ghetto genetics”?

- Because we now have a caste system because of these genetic platforms. If you were born with class C, then you are dumber than almost any of class B. You do not have the opportunity to put cool eyes, you have no way to speed up the metabolism. And this does not change. Even in the Middle Ages it was possible to change the estate, but now it is impossible. Progressive society, damn it.

- But they say that the main thing is the person himself. Character and so on.

- But no, nifiga. A higher-class platform makes it possible to work with fundamentally different tasks, it allows you to really make progress, and not just control robots at the factory. This can even be seen in the example of politicians, public journalists. It is as if they are calculating a bunch of actions in one move, which is exactly what I am incapable of. I noticed this for a long time, but sometimes this kind of thing hurts my eyes.

A strange person is hiding this crap. Obviously, he is not a policeman. For them, this is too complicated an action. And he is unlikely from the special services, I am too small for them. However, how did he find me? And I wonder how he found out that this genetics theme hurts me like that. Mysteriously, of course. And at the same time, this enrages me all. Damn, we must stop walking in circles and still sit down, otherwise I look like a neurotic ...

- A serious thought, a very serious one. As I see, she deeply sunk into your soul, your hands are still trembling.

- Yes you are right. But who are you?

- This is not very important yet. Although, guess who I am.

- Hmm ... Well ... Since you were able to get into this forest unnoticed and in a non-standard avatar, then you, apparently, are a cracker. Besides, from somewhere you know about me, you even somehow tracked down. So?

- Close, but continue

“Are you, by any chance, not wanted?”

- No, what are you. On the wanted list are those who want to raise money on a slippery slope and at the same time do not think of finding a screen. Conditionally, if you want to sell the forbidden, then always do it so that in a pinch the police find someone else and calm down on this. Previously, gangs were used for such frauds, which were only a screen and a source of cheap sitters. Now everything is a little more complicated, but the essence is the same. So no, I'm not wanted.

- Obviously, you need to somehow solve the issue of genetics too. Are you probably also unhappy with your class?

“No, I'm pure A-shechka.” However, I am not rich enough to stupidly sit and do nothing.

- Hmm ... Why do you need me?

“I see you are not interested in delving into the current situation.” Sad but expected. In short: I want to steal a certain medicine that can change a person’s class.

- Wow. Is there such a thing? Damn, what the hell is this? Really? Or is this such a new way of fraud?

- I'll see, your vocabulary is not too big. 10 minutes ago you called me crap, now you call the same word inconvenient news

Damn, he doesn’t seem to understand. How is that? If I knew that the class could be changed, I would already dig the earth in this direction. And not just me. Damn, damn it, damn it. Or is this friend just a scammer? Let's say that this is so. How would I check this?

“Your squint betrays you.” You, apparently, consider me to be an ordinary breed, right?

- Yes there is a bit. Can you prove to me that at least you don’t want to throw me and kill me?

- A worthy question. In short: nothing at all, you have to trust me. Sounds cool, right? So, I’ll prove to you that I’m not lying about changing the genetic platform, and then I even promise to do it. You will go to the darknet, check my reputation, well, there you can issue a contract. Anonymous, everything is like people’s, although I know you one FIG, but others will not be able to find you. I will also show you that our company is possible. In the end, in the event of a fiasco, I risk my immaculate reputation. And you risk your life, alas. However, if successful, you will be an honest A-shka, with life experience as a S-shka. And I will get an apparatus that will help correct the condition. Is going?

- Honestly ... Probably.

- Okay, we do it. You will soon receive a letter with my darknet coordinates. You can find me there, send me the message "Egoist" and the public key. I will draw up a contract, sign it with my key, encrypt with your public. If I throw you, you can declare it to the platform. However, so far no one has complained. On the contrary, I have many successful contracts. Does this fit?

- Yes of course. However, I still expect heaps of explanations from you.

- Naturally. Read, learn everything. Come up with questions. Come into your second favorite game, well, which is fantasy. Go to the Monster Forest alone, hunt for monsters, and in exactly two weeks I will be waiting for you there. I’ll answer questions, but you can’t sign the contract yet, I’m in no hurry.

“It looks fair.” Okay

- Good. I will not repeat everything now, I will write down the details in the contract.

- Thank...

It's time to get out of the forest. Nothing like a walk. Okay, I'll be waiting for a letter.

Another truth about the history of the world

It was all strange yesterday ... Maybe I had a dream? Now programs are harder to crack, they have learned to monitor security. Yes, and privacy at the level, although they still found me.

Okay it does not matter. If no letter comes, then it was all a joke. Or sleep, it doesn’t matter. Time to work.

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So what is this letter? Some kind of Nemo, here are its coordinates and key. Interesting ... Now we’re joking around on not the most legal exchanges ... Yeah, here it is. Good rating. Apparently, he has been around this business for 30 years, and not a single scammer. There are several failures, the costs were offset without arbitration of the platforms ... Wow, he is present on five platforms. Well done, what can I say. Okay, let's play this game. He said, like, to create a private / public key, send him a public one and save the private one to the USB stick ... Done.

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Oh, an encrypted and signed contract came. It's great that here ... Yeah, pull out a mechanism that can change the body’s genetic platform. Details, guarantees of deliverance from the clutches of justice ... Well, a person’s reputation is a norm. Okay, I’ll sign it and send it as it is. Sense to wait for something? After a week and a half I’m going to hunt for monsters, at the same time I’ll chat ...

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So where is he? It's just me and my pet lynx.

- Hello

- Wow. Have you moved into a pet?

- Well, you could say that. I rather replaced the module in this virtual lynx, now I seem to be acting on it. It's nice when developers do not remove debugging and manual controls from the code.

“That's not so bad.” However, tell the details.

- Apparently, you're talking about our contract now. What do you want to know? More precisely, for starters, what do you know about our world?

- Well ... In general, if we talk about progress, then the most interesting thing began somewhere in the twentieth century. First there was the first world war, then the second. Then, after about a hundred years, an informational confrontation began, which resulted in the third world war. As a result, countries collapsed, so now we have a more or less unified government on the planet, but we all live in different countries. There are many level C people in the current, there are few states in which there are mostly A-shki.

- Yes, some of the things you fairly correctly conveyed, however, as always, there are a couple of nuances.

- Hmm ... Isn't that what it says in historical journals?

- Probably, I read them for a long time.

“What am I saying wrong?”

- Yes, everything is correct, just the essence of the changes was different.

- In terms of?

- We will skip the first world wars, the Cold War, etc. Let us dwell on the information confrontation. In the middle of the XXI century, two main blocks stood out in the world - with European and Asian civilizations. However, more than half of the countries, both in terms of population and territory, did not adjoin any of them. So, the confrontation went precisely from here. At first it was economic, then beyond spheres of influence. Then a fight broke out between corporations that were given carte blanche to fierce competition in foreign territory

“Are you talking about contract killings?” They, it seems, have always been. Is not it so?

- No, the number of cases of industrial espionage, plum bases and so on has simply radically increased. Also, do not forget that it was a golden time for data collection. A bunch of systems knew better than a man what he really needed. All were analyzed and so on.

- Is it because of such serious privacy now?

- Yes you are right. So, there was another problem - the systems allowed a much better person to solve a number of problems. For example, it was extremely useful for the military. As a result, the two sides decided to remove the enemy. As a result, the Third World War broke out, with nuclear weapons, everything is as it should.

“As far as I know, it’s not being used ...”

“It doesn't work that way, that’s the problem.” Most of those who made rockets created the bulk with flaws. Since you can get profit now, and in case of war it will still be bad. Yes, and it was difficult to verify. In general, only a tenth of the weapon was really what they were talking about. Everything else did not explode on time. As a result, nuclear weapons did not affect the war too much.

“You are talking about two sides, but there were actually three of them, right?”

“More like four.” During the war, the United States sent a pair of warheads to a number of Arab countries. It seems by chance, although figs you can take them apart. In the end, there were: European civilization, Asian, Arab and abstentions. For example, some African countries did not even notice the war especially, since they were not jammed especially with nuclear missiles, and there were enough shootings of their own.

- Hmm, they told me different ...

- Well, of course, European civilization won. However, during the war there were two more incidents: the mixing of nations led to problems with patriotism. More precisely, many residents did not want to fight against their homeland. Conventionally, the Arab in Germany did not really want to fight against the Arabs, which is logical. Another incident is too smart systems. For example, they sent troops to slaughter just to simplify logistics. Well, that is, they stupidly wet their soldiers, because somewhere someone put the wrong weight, but in the end we got such a situation. What is interesting, everyone had such a problem. Plus, analytics of everything and everything that I mentioned above was added. As a result, just by analyzing the Internet it was possible to understand where the troops are now

- Wow ...

- Sure sure. As a result, after the war we had a couple of tasks. The first was to limit data collection. And radically. Imagine, a smart home in the 21st century could not always light a bulb without the Internet

“Idiots ...”

- That's for sure. Another problem: how to save the nation? After all, the more successful you are, the less desire to have children. And, unfortunately, there is a downside - the less successful you are, the more children you will have. With this it was necessary to stop

- This is fascism, in fact. People should not be forbidden to have children simply because they are unlucky in life.

- Yes, it didn’t work, it didn’t fartanulo. However, such thoughts did exist, this cannot be taken away. As a result, they remembered the idea of ​​genetic modification, which was thought up even before the third world war. The thing is that the nerve endings of a person can be improved, but you will have to asymptotically approach the limit. Imagine a muscle. Ligaments have a tensile strength, so the longer the ligament, the lower the maximum instantaneous force. And the more parallel the ligaments, the longer the external ones, that is, increasing the number of ligaments, we increase the strength, but there is a limit. Everything is the same with our neurons. If you bind them in a certain way, then you can transfer more information from the limbs and internal organs, however, there is a limit.

My lynx sighed, and continued:

- In fact, the brain can also be improved. You can replace the circulatory system with a slightly more efficient one, weave neural connections a little better, increase the size of the thinking organ itself. Further, parts of the brain can be shuffled so that those that interact more often are closer. In general, there is a field for optimization, however, there is a limit. As a result, we developed the concept of the most efficient human nervous system, however, so that neurons remain approximately the same neurons. Similarly, we worked on all the organs, according to the faster, higher, stronger scheme. So they got a Class A genetic platform. As I said earlier, it can't be cooler, well, if we leave DNA and other things. Although they are now talking about the complication of DNA so that the number of bases is not 4, but 6. This will get rid of common viruses with animals, but this is a future, and a radical one.

- Interesting ... And other classes, apparently, is a simplification of class A?

“Yes, you are completely right.” If my source didn’t lie, then class C was developed as "he must be the most intelligent of live births." As you understand, the higher the class, the steeper the brain. For example, in our first conversation, you asked two questions, and I partially answered the second, but in the end you forgot about the first. So to speak, little RAM. And part of the conversation was forgotten.

- Probably ... Now I don’t remember my first questions at all. Only in my memory is the association "some crap."

- Apparently. Okay, let's continue. In all genetic platforms, there are only two fundamental differences: brain power and the number of nerve endings that go to the organs. Conventionally, an eye implant for A-shek transmits more information than similar for B-shek. This in turn creates boundaries for the functionality of organs. For example, I can force the adrenal glands to throw adrenaline into the blood, and you can’t. Not yet.

“And what about class C?” You say that it was not created by chance.

- Yes you are right. We will talk about the social structure of our society later. In general, if we sorted out the children of the elites, then let's look at the proletarians of mental labor. So, class C was created in such a way that its most probable representative would be similar in mind to a conditionally successful individual born in the classical way. For example, take a classy lawyer with experience. He is given only complicated things, every time he has to analyze a complex process, he has to understand the mood of society and so on. In general, the brain works. Few can plow and think like that. And class A was degraded enough to make class C.

- Hmm ...

- In vain you are sad. More than half the world's population is dumber than you. And less adapted for life: they are weaker, not very hardy. And plus you are definitely smarter than the vast majority of people of the past.

- It’s still unpleasant to understand that I’m just a worsened version of elite children.

- I agree. That is why I offered you a job.

- Thank you ... I would like to get out of this hole

- In this you are right. Now the power of computer systems is limited, data collection is prohibited. AI is already impossible in principle, since the capacity of a legal server cluster is barely enough for a relative simulation of the mouse brain. And something is more complicated than a rodent, and even more so, it is impossible to repeat yet. So you improve to level A, get closer to the top. Well, I will earn.

- Yes, it looks honest.

- I'm already running out of time, I can’t play for a lynx for a long time. However, your next task is to get into the Kamchatka laboratory. There are experiments in nuclear physics, trying to get superdense elements. And they need a chemist. I will send you your resume. According to my data, it is ideally suited for one of the vacancies, plus it does not lie. Add only details about your address and so on.

- Sure. Do I need to go to them?

- Right. The process will take a couple of months. And after three weeks we meet right there, only in a different location. I will tell the details about genetics and your assignment.

- It’s coming.

- Well, that's it. Until. That is, meow, I’m like a cat.

- Until ...

About classes

Uff, like, the first interview went smoothly. I was asked about my work experience and asked standard questions. We played in the usual quadrille, where an employee asks for a lot, and they answer him that they are not ready right now. Well, everything is standard, they will ask for details in a month, since now they have time for vacations. Well, it happens.

However, how can I still steal the device from the laboratory? And why such a thing to nuclear physicists? I think so actively about this that I’m already sleeping not for 8 hours, but six or nine.

- Hello! Well, how's the first visit to the lab?

- Hello! This time you disguised as an honest account

“Yes, you're right, but not quite.” This is a non-standard account. It is sometimes used to test the game, but due to confusion, it can hang out anywhere, there is no control. Well come on, go to the Crimson Cliff instance, there will be two of us. The text is stored for some time on the servers, but no one is engaged in negotiations. We will use this.

“How do you know all this?”

- I once developed programs, including for large companies. And therefore I perfectly understand the level of chaos there. Conditionally, if you break the rules a little and infrequently, then everyone will be blamed for mistakes. And with a huge share of probability they will even be right.

- And it looks pretty reliable ...

- Well, the legal department and a group of marketers are vigilantly watching so few people guess.

- Clear. However, I have questions about our topic.

- Yes, that’s logical. And what are they?

- First: why are there platforms worse than C, namely: D and E? Second: how can we steal the device from the laboratory? What is he doing there at all? How can the genetic platform be updated, if in this case it is necessary to somehow update all the cells of the body? And why is the device a secret?

- A lot ... However, quite rational

“Do you know the answer?”

- Yes unfortunately. At one time, I did not work for a whole year, but only traveled to countries and talked. I learned everything, tried to understand the essence of that nonsense that happens with this world.

- So far, everything seems to be logical ... Well, there are governments, courts and more.

“Yes, but your questions already reveal a bunch of problems.” Well, judge for yourself, why do someone not class A?

“Hmm ... the elite?”

- Right. So, back to the middle of the war, when a number of rather powerful people understood the threat from computers. The rule came from here: no autonomous system can be smarter than a certain standard. There is a tricky definition, but not important. If the system cannot function without an assistant, then their capacities are combined. Hence the consequence: the Internet is dangerous, because its power in stupid numbers exceeds the standard. From here we have the current network. Similarly, about all robots, including industrial ones. After all, if the entire plant is connected to a tight network, where the machine indirectly communicates with the accounting system, then such power should also be limited. So, it is necessary to divide it into components that will be controlled by operators

- Right some nineteenth century

- Rather, the beginning of XXI, but not the point. The main thing is that we need a lot of workers, plus those who will follow them. And what does the worker need if we apply the ideas of fascism and eugenics?

- Submission? Defeat in rights?

- Nope. It is necessary that he live longer and think less. Well, such a stereotypical knight from the Middle Ages, only with a long service life. So, for this you need to make healthy people, but not very smart. , , , . , , .

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- Hi, Stuart! Perfectly. However, I am currently studying materials from previous studies.

- Charming, charming. I have absolutely no time to practically check all those ideas that come to me. But we need to hurry, because according to our calculations, it will soon be possible to synthesize the first superheavy element, which will allow us to store energy. Just think, after hundreds of years, humanity will still be able to make a battery, a kilogram of which can store more abstract energy than a liter of kerosene.

- Yes, it will be cool. It will be possible to begin a gradual departure from modern, but still smoking, engines.

“Do you like history?”

- I sometimes watch videos about antiquities

- It is right. Although my question is different: do you like to find analogies from the not very distant past in order to ironically notice the shortcomings of the present?

- Complex issue…

- Yes, purely technically - complex. And that does not make him uninteresting. Look, do you know that at the beginning of the XXI century they already tried to introduce electric cars? Of course, it is quite obvious that one of the true goals was also to remove the less progressive manufacturers, which, by a lucky chance, were mostly not in those countries that dreamed of ecology. Interesting, huh? You don’t forbid to compete with yourself, just car manufacturers from countries of the world’s first world need to simultaneously make classic versions of cars, and do not forget about the new one. It is logical that they were forced out of the market, and so on, but that is not the point. Another thing is important: then they rushed to the update before science prepared the platform. Well, that is, if the classical scheme of innovations looks like research and then creation, then in this case it was the other way around: first build a new world, and we will investigate if this is possible, in the process.

- Wow. However, it was just a local idea, right?

- By no means, then a lot of countries rushed to engage in such indecency, which perfectly demonstrates the consistency and consistency of politicians, and along with the electorate. And we were distracted again, because at that moment a lot of really cool engineering platforms were created, but a couple of crises and wars corrected the situation, because we are moving again in cars, but already different ones.

- It seemed to me that the transition to gas happened naturally. Well, similar to avoiding coal, just cheap deposits have already been developed. Plus methane is greener

“Yes, you're right, but only partially.” The transition to methane is logical and consistent, it is an excellent energy carrier, however, it was switched to after realizing the problems of electric vehicles. Well, then they just realized that in the air, well, there’s just radically a lot of carbon dioxide, this is on the one hand. And on the other: in some places on the planet it is actually very cheap to extract energy, well, from the sun or from a hydroelectric power station. From here we get the following idea: we set up plants in places with cheap electricity, we create many, many simple gas, the same methane, although not only. Then this substance can be converted to energy for heating with an efficiency of slightly less than 100%, which is already cool. Or with less efficiency in the energy of movement, but hybrids have taken root in this area, so in the end it turned out to be a pretty good solution. Well, then the third world waved, and after it the idea of ​​a common energy system was covered due to the fact that under ban all large systems in general. And consequently, autonomy again became extremely important, which until the end finished off all the ideas of the electric vehicle era.

“I would never have thought ... And now can we repeat the story?”

- That's right, although now in the correct sequence. For example, it is often more profitable to first collect things on a trip, and then to begin it, well, to eliminate the problem of forgotten things and so on. However, in reality, you can sometimes go first, and already in the process to repack your suitcases, well, strain someone in the back seats. And in rare cases, it will be reasonable: you quickly collect a bunch of junk in the apartment, take a bunch of packages, and already in a taxi someone puts things in their suitcases. Most often, something will go wrong, but sometimes it works! Right now we are dealing with batteries in the correct sequence: first science, then factories. First fees, then a taxi. And we are reducing the likelihood of problems, but this does not mean that such an approach will be more effective in 100% of cases, it’s just more adequate with a greater probability than any other.

- Yes, that sounds logical.

“I see you're tired, as expected, because now is the first working day.” Please study Mac Cooper's research on zirconium-based pseudoorganics?

- Okay, I'll look through the materials.

- Perfectly. Okay, it's getting late, I went home. Until!

- Until!

How much they say, just some kind of tin. And how much information falls on me. Everytime. And we will be honest, they know how to find analogies. I just managed to offer an experiment, and they immediately answered that they had already done a very similar thing. They studied, however, then not chemical properties, but rather physical ones. Dependence on temperature and other similar parameters. I would not immediately notice the similarities, but they presented it to me like that. It’s as if you are a three-year-old, and you communicate with excellent students, and even a couple of years older. Okay, I will follow the advice, which means I will continue to listen.

- Steward, and tell me, please, how to get to the medical center?

- Yes of course. Is something hurting?

- No, I just want to take a couple of ointments from them for possible burns. They are unlikely to be, I know the safety precautions. But just in case, I want to put it next to reduce the likelihood of a problem.

- Reasonably. The road there is not the easiest, so let's go show. And at the same time, we will speculate, but not about work. Please tell me, as the president of the country at the beginning of the 21st century, how would you plant your companies in other countries? Well, you have, conditionally, an insurance company whose head, which is obviously in your state. She is reinsured, which is also obvious, first of all in your country, since it is simply more convenient. And there are a couple of countries nearby where you can squeeze local lads. So, the question for you is: how would you help “proper competition” if you have a ton of money: well, there’s a little opportunity to amend the laws, plus there are special services that can also help.

- I would try to introduce a bunch of small affiliated companies in another country. For a large monster can easily be circumvented by someone small.

“I understand you, even though you're not quite right.” History shows that only a fat corporation is capable of attacking another one with such a wide front. Otherwise, the competition degenerates a little, since a large corporation can be in a disadvantageous market for a very long time, because there is dofig money, and besides, all the necessary workers already exist, well, there are accountants and so on. Of course, history knows the widespread exceptions, which does not change the recommendation: attack large large. So, the question for you is: how to kill someone else’s corporation?

- Interesting ... Probably, it is necessary to remove key members. Managers, for example.

- Not if you throw the classic managers out of the game, well, those who manage other managers, then the corporation’s business will only improve in practice. Unfortunately, or fortunately.

- Then, probably, it is necessary to arrange sabotage and sabotage.

- Also not quite right. The same management is doing this very well. And not only him. After all, if a person has been doing the same thing for about 10 years, although progress has gone forward, then he begins to understand that it can be replaced. And she also realizes that it will be unfair to him. As a result, our employee begins to hinder the company rather, creating a bureaucracy there, proving to everyone that he is very, very needed. In general, he becomes a typical saboteur. So also by.

- Hmm ...

- In almost any company, there are about 5 (or 10) percent of people on whom everything else rests. Of course, everyone feels himself that way, but this does not change the essence. Otherwise, the company grows, everyone changes jobs (well, there is an increase, and so on), as a result, the company becomes ineffective, then it no longer grows. If there is no adequate at all, then the company goes bankrupt, so the balance is somewhere at this point. Top managers of the company are not profitable to find these 5%, as there is a huge risk of falling into 95%. However, a competitor can find them for you and try to eliminate them, only not physically, but just make them quit

“This could have been done before!”

- Are you talking about the 20th century? If so, then you are again not quite right, because in the twenty-first century, people began to leave a lot of information on the network. Moreover, the data flowed in rivers, and governments only forbade talking about leaks. Well, they showed the appearance of activity. So, owning the data, it was possible to find 5% in the company of a competitor and make them leave.

- Such as?

- For example, there is a manager who has learned to quite effectively lie to subordinates. As a result, a person works for the first year, hoping for a raise. In the end, he learns from his colleagues the terrible truth in which swamp he works, and then the manager convinces him to stay again, because the team, plus soon, soon everything will go wrong. This continues for another year, as a result, the person then quits. Without an effective manager, an employee would leave in the first month. And so he worked for two whole years, tried, and got in the end quite a bit.

“This is inhuman ...”

- Probably, however, another thing is important - our comrade actually brought the company profit. However, it is possible to talk to each subordinate of our manager through the social network, people raised their bucks at work, the manager was removed from work. After some time, the department was completely removed, since it was ineffective, and the corporation lost a piece of the market as a result.

- Isn't that good?

- It would be nice to remove a couple of tops, then it would be possible to increase the department almost at times. However, there is another characteristic example. Imagine a company makes products, and someone checks them. And, oddly enough, often everything rests only on this person: it is he who does not allow giving clients completely shit. And to all the rest this thought is not very important, they give bonuses for another reason. So, take this person away, and the company will quickly lose customers.

- Reasonable ... Interesting, but did they do that?

- Oddly enough, yes. That’s exactly what they did, which is at least cool, because companies were collapsing in front of everyone, and nobody really knew the real reason. And she won’t know how I think. By the way, here he is a first-aid post, but wait a minute. Another question for you: if you found out that an attack was being carried out on a company, what would you do?

- Question ... I think it would be unreasonable to talk about this with management?

- Of course, this will be a losing option, since the higher the person, the less his actions differ from the actions of the saboteur, unless he is in those 5%, which is rare.

“And speaking to colleagues doesn’t make sense either, does it?”

“Well, of course, because you simply cannot find a saboteur.” Conditionally, there is a manager who decided to save on equipment by supplying cheap computers to everyone. And it turned out cool in numbers, there are a lot of jobs! The details are sadder, as it turned out that the productivity of employees sagged a lot. It is difficult to detect right away, so the manager received the award, he is well done and all that. And to you a question: was it a saboteur?

- Sure. The standard scheme is the same.

- You are right about the scheme, but it’s absolutely normal behavior of the manager: save 10 by losing 100. For it is necessary to work differently, you will have to study the market and monitor the technologies. In general, you will not receive premiums on profits, such is the problem. Well, judge for yourself what’s easier: to be better than a competitor in real terms, or to draw numbers by which, if you don’t go into details, are you better than a competitor?

- Horror ...

- Not that word. Okay, in general, I showed you the first-aid post.

- Thank!

- OK good luck

Tricky plan

So, I’ve been in the lab for almost six months now. Exhausting, to be honest. Although fatigue is more pleasant than from work at the factory. What is funny, they used to tell me that in the near-scientific sphere, boredom is mortal. Well, you don’t see the results of your labor, unlike a living enterprise. But no, just the opposite. At the factory you see just the results, but not your own, but the factory. In science, you feel your tiny contribution. But he is yours.

- Hello! How is it going?

- Oh damn. You scared me.

- Sorry. How's intelligence progressing?

- So, I checked a couple of rooms. It looks like the transcoder is in honey. block. In addition to the main one, they have two rooms: one with medicines, the other with a combination lock. The inscription reads "hazardous waste," but the door is iron. Moreover, apparently, it opens outward, although the loops are hidden in the depths. And that means - apparently, a safe or something like that.

- Beauty! However, it’s too early to relax. Now we need to figure out how to quietly get into the office. I understand correctly that you previously served in the fire department?

- Yes, this is my first job. I determined the cause of the fire, based on various kinds of prints on the walls. Different materials give different soot on the walls, on the ceiling. Plus they have a different intensity. My task was to establish (or confirm) that the fire started precisely because of the sparkling outlet and, conditionally, the carpet. Since there were lovers of making paths from the combustible mixture throughout the apartment, and then turning on the stove and leaving for about 15 minutes. If a frying pan with water and oil was heated, then this design lit the floor. And the combustible mixture spread fire around the apartment.

“I didn’t know what the fire department was doing.” Is this not the work of investigators, for example, police officers, or hired by an insurance company?

- Good question, I did not think ... Maybe the insurance sponsored the fire department.

- Well, it’s logical, because in this case they paid for your work under the article “charity”, which gives economic benefits. Cunning, respect. However, we were distracted again. You will need to somehow photograph that wonderful machine. As I looked, you are the only one who worked with firefighters. So, if you need to check the consequences of this very fire, then they will let you in first ... Well, I hope ...

“Why, in principle, will they let me into that room?”

“We have to come up with ... We must take advantage of the fact that you are the only one who can evaluate that room for a fire, just relying on your experience.” However, no one will do it just like that, therefore it is necessary to somehow push the whole fraternity to check ... You can organize a mini-rally on the street so that the inspectors eventually come ... The safes always have their own atmosphere, it is obvious that it is not adequately protected from fire ... So even before the inspectors they will have to find someone who, just in case, will check everything in advance ... Well, I hope ...

- And if not?

“It's not scary; it's safe for you.” In general, we agreed, your task: to accidentally tell the local doctor that you worked as a firefighter. Tell me that after what you saw, you strictly observe safety precautions, and then often try to play it safe.

- In fact, this is true.

- Hurrah! Then they decided, I will try to fine-tune you inspection of the device. Your task: to remember as much as he looks. Ideally, if you manage to take his photos. They will be useful to me to prepare a fake, which we will throw after the operation. Then, few will realize that there is no apparatus.

- Then you have another question.

- yeah

- And how can you change the genetic platform? After all, you need to update all the cells of the body

- Difficult, but possible. As you know, people of different classes also have different organs. They are grown at the factory immediately for the desired class, or adapted. Well, I told you that. However, in reality, everything is more complicated, since the operation must be done on a living person. A person is put into a coma, and the first virus is injected into his bloodstream, which will begin to rearrange the cells of the nervous system to a new scheme. The fact is that in each of us the ideal state of the body is encoded, well, if we exclude live births. Therefore, as soon as the cells change their work style, they will begin to change in order to correspond to the category A genetic platform. This works only for nerve endings and generally does not apply to other organs. Such is the feature of our platforms. All other organs are just a little better than standard ones, and our nervous system was counted from scratch. So, the nerves will begin to rebuild, but your old organs will not be able to work with them, well, with the exception of the skin, bones, although these are not organs. Actually, almost everything that actively communicates with a class C platform is unlikely to be able to communicate with A-endings. In any case, we will not take risks, because you only need to replace all the organs.

- Somehow radically.

- There is no other way. Two weeks after the onset of the virus, your organs will fail one after another. Within one, about a week, you will all be replaced with artificial ones, or simply removed away. Four weeks later, well, or close to this, your nervous system will be ready to work at the highest level, and therefore a new heart, stomach, and everything else will be inserted into you. It will still take about a couple of years to fully adapt, but you can walk literally two months after the start of the process.

- To go nuts

- In-in. Here the device generates various viruses, including those that we need for this operation. Well, you get the idea, roughly.

- Yeah cool.

- Class. Okay, I'll contact you again. Good luck

- No, no wait

- Yeah, of course

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