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Yes, Kleya is paranoid.

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Interesting! So D abandoned a lot of care after most people died, huh. And what we’re seeing with him giving suggestions of what to do to Kat in every situation is probably not what it was like before.

How paranoid can you be when the entire planet(including most of the terrain) is likely to kill you? Besides, a bit of paranoia is healthy. You don’t get done in by what is “normal” it is what happens on the worst of days that decides how cautious you always need to be to protect yourself.

I don’t think she is being paranoid, in her situation it’s quite reasonable to expect a well-hidden trap here!

You’re not paranoid if people really are out to get you…

I believe the quote is “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean people aren’t out to get you”. So, Kat IS paranoid, but it’s not all in her head.

lol.

Paranoia is a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution and/or suspicion/mistrust of other people with no evidence or justification.

So. If you are delusional and/or have no justification or evidence for caution/suspicion/mistrust, then you are paranoid. People COULD be really out to get you, but if there is no evidence or justification for thinking so, then yes, you are paranoid, even if you happen to be right.

It’s kinda hard to label Kat as paranoid though as the world DOES think it’s her fault for destroying everything. She IS a hacker/programmer in a world that hates and mistrusts hackers/programmers.
She has a pretty strong justification for caution and mistrust that would firmly keep her out of paranoid territory.

Oh and lets not forget because they think she is responsible fr the world being messed up, they want her specifically dead. Weather its her fault or not is irrelevant, people perceive it to be her fault and so she must act with caution.

So true. However, if you DO happen to tell your parents, and they DON’T believe you, for the love of g-d, DON’T use a sock puppet during your exit interview from the mental institution. (Said idiot needed to be broken out of the mental institution, for reasons of stupidity, not actual insanity).

For Jane’s sake she better not be. It’s not paranoia if people really are out to get her.

I don’t think its called paranoia, when you have lots of people hunting you down because you burned the world.

There are really people out to get her, people who might guess her real identity.

But realistically, Jane is probably not one of those people, so yes Kleya is being a little bit paranoid. Of more interest, D existed quietly for some time before the Ending. How quietly, exactly? How many people ever knew that D existed at all back then?

Not Jake, evidently.

I suspect, part of the ending, was D overreacting to protect her, when the world had a panic ‘oh no she is uber powerful we must kill her’ reaction when she got her toy working and it was discovered she had inadvertantly weaponized it as well.

I suspect MOST of the Ending was an evil plot by someone who needed a patsy to blame it on. Deconstruct Me doesn’t seem to have actually existed or had anything to do with Kleya, and Jake is right, she couldn’t have just “hacked” the geomagnetic field and caused a bunch of supervolcanoes…unless someone else built a device that had that effect.

I mean, I thought for a while about whether there was a form of quantum tunneling communications network that used high intensity lasers directed through the Earth to reduce latency and so forth, but even if that existed Jake would know if the energies involved were at the level which could mess up the planet. No, whatever it was that physically caused the pole shift and other geological disturbances, it was a secret from Jake, and still is. And that means that Kleya didn’t build it.

She probably didn’t even set it off.

I really do think that the Ending itself was just a geomagnetic or w/e event that would have done what it did regardless of Kleya, her involvement just happened to disrupt enough infrastructure to make it apocalyptic and impossible to survive for most people. Awful coincidence

Technically, it was the Hacker Hunts that did that. Which were a response to DM. Which, so far as I can tell, had nothing to do with Kleya.

But even if the pole shift weren’t engineered, I’m not ready to put the timing down to coincidence.

So maybe once D got into the entire system he “took over the world” and has gotten careless since he feels so powerful.

You know… I see 3 possibilities here that I hadn’t before considered:

1) D is more than just a program… he’s an actual functional AI. And if she created a singularity in her rampage… no wonder the world went bonkers.

2) D is a person rather than a program or an AI. (Unlikely, but there is definitely another personality here rather than just a program that Kleya controls.)

3) Kleya has a split personality– her regular one and a “computer” one, caused by tying her neural system into the grid. (This is quite possible.)

Whichever proves true… there is a lot more to D than I had previously realized. To my memory this is the first time Kleya has had an actual conversation with him… and they had divergent opinions and thoughts.

Its been hinted at that D’s core software existed before Klya got into him. It originated as part of Tenka’s security suite and then she hacked it creating back doors and turning it into her own little pet.

My theory is that it basically crew into a full AI under Klya before the ending, without any one realizing it.

Tenka’s geatest anti-hacking security resource, is also its worst nightmare. To the rest of the world, Tenka’s super anti-hacking software. To Tenka its ‘the virus’, to Klya, its D.

It has also been indicated that D is not a full AI despite his incredible capabilities. It is my theory that Kleya found D after it had been deemed a failure and turned D into a functional program to get the Hakido to work.

I think you are on to something there Snoots. I’m guessing #1, D is an AI. D has too much of a personality and even needs her to keep it in line like a pet or child. I mean sure it could be just a program made to seem self aware, but that wouldn’t make the story interesting, now would it. What better way to stop hackers than with a self aware AI that is able to adapt as well as its human enemies (hackers).

I got the idea D was around before she got her hardware so I do not think it is part of her. As for a person, who knows. Remember Cortona in halo? Could be something similar, though it seems to act like an animal than a person suggesting it isn’t quite up to the human level of thinking, though I guess it could be a child. 🙂

Hmmm… or it could be a full-blown AI that for some reason “likes” Kleya and has become loyal and fully protective of her. Although she does seem to have some directive control over it. Seems to be a symbiotic relationship… or at least a mutually-supportive / willing one. Maybe Keleya released D’s “chains” and in response it is both very respectful and grateful. Nevertheless, it has enough of its own personality to warn an chide Kelya for a potentially ill-thought move. So it does seem at least to an extent, independent of her… like very good friends watching each other’s backs in dangerous times.

I always assumed that she only got her hardware to work by re-purposing D to act like a driver or translator between her and her hardware…

Yeah, I had thought D was just a semi-AI assist program (a pet)… until today’s strip. In this strip D is actually warning her, “No, you need to be more careful like you used to be.”

That’s not just a program. That’s a fully-self-aware AI with independent thought. Something a bit new to the strip, as before it seemed all D did was whatever Kleya directed it to do. D’s answer above raised my eyebrows, for sure.

Huh? Everything we see are *Kleya’s* thoughts/commands to D. We never actually see D’s replies.

Also, there is not doubt that D is an A.I. — there is only some room for speculation regarding what kind (how advanced / human-like) exactly.

So is that a text box D is uses for advanced communication when symbols don’t cut it? I’m looking at the lines in brackets.

Also, is the hacking interface made in her thoughts or is it a HUD she uses to see code and hidden things like D?

I wonder if it is text. I mean, sometimes it has been, that we’ve seen. But a lot of times maybe it’s communicating a chart or something like that. TENka talks of monitoring the Virus’ “levels”, and so forth. Anyway, it does seem a more sedate means of communication than the ferocious Avatar.

Hey, it’s not whether or not you’re paranoid. It’s if you’re paranoid ENOUGH. 😛

The whole world wants to execute her. Her level of paranoia is fine. You can’t be too careful when people are legitimately out to murder you.

Paranoia is for those naive enough to think there’s no danger.

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