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Housing » Susan
“Yes: we don’t understand them. But they appear to be pretty ‘human’. So possibly somewhat safer than AI. You have seen the Matrix?”
“Well, that went badly for humanity, but rampaging vampires doesn’t seem very good either.”
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“No, but we do test you and decide whether to go forward”
“Where backwards is to kill me?”
“Possibly… but living dead don’t have many rights … including the right to complain.”
“So I am a slave?”
HOUSING » SUSAN
May
“You came all the way here from Bishop? Did you like Bishop? That is on the Nevada border right?”
“Yes, Bishop is on the far side of the Sierras. It is beautiful there, and you can buy a house for $250K… which would buy you… nothing… in the Bay Area. So our move to Oakland moved us from a house to an apartment”
“You couldn’t find a house to rent? A lot of people rent, both apartments and houses.”
“No houses on our joint income. Amasa pays me something, but it isn’t much above the minimum hourly wage, which doesn’t buy you much in the Bay Area. I should become a programmer for Facebook, but the schedule for dialysis is getting in the way.”
