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 thefinalwraith asked (to Vexarian):

[…]some of his ideas really irk me (like the AR just being the stereotypical ‘evil AI jealous of organics’ and pretty much nothing else).

Let me clarify this thingie.

I don’t think AR is a stereotypical evil AI, or even close.  I just think he’s potentially much more ruthless and dangerous than Dirk, which we’ve pretty much seen.

For example, some people think AR’s plan is to get prototyped, become 'alive’.  I doubt that, and think it’ll be an accidental crack and a natural prototyping choice.

I just think he lacks a degree of empathy that Dirk had, and might not, for example, realize that a resurrected Jake would find being in a Cal-like form horrifying.  Like a Prince of Heart without the precautions that an organic lifeform may have had, the capacity for caring for his friends Dirk’s grown over the last few years, et cetera.  Just Dirk with less restraint, more ability, and potentially less emotion where it counts.

He seemed to have no qualms about wrecking Jane to make Jake/Dirk more likely, for example.  Dirk would have presumably hesitated to injure her like that.  That’s all you need to know; not some gross evil-AI extrapolation.

2012-4-16