I turned and offered a high five to Dad. He slapped my hand with a smile. Then, Mom did the sa.
"Nice work, kiddo. Rember when you offer soone an easy way out of a tough situation, they are almost always going to take it." Dad said.
"Not King Tim," Joe’s voice said. "I can’t say I’ve ever seen him take the easy way."
Dad laughed.
"All right, wise guy, connect to the Secretary of Defense."
"Acknowledged. Connecting in two, one..."
"Mr. Secretary, I’ve got good news," I said through my smile, "We’ve count..." Joe popped a figure into my head, "Eighty-seven percent the total enemy force marching north without their weapons."
"Eighty-seven percent! Damn." On the display I watched as a big smile grew on his face, "Our boys will be there to welco them back into fold. The others?"
"Headed south toward Ecuador, all on foot. It seems they couldn’t get their vehicles started, when they tried to move on. Division 2 can adjust their course to west south-west for the fastest intercept route. The idiots are mostly carrying their useless rifles, so that’ll tire them out a little faster on that rough ground. Rember, non-lethal force only if they give you any trouble at all. I will hold you accountable if it goes wrong from here."
"We should be able to handle it from here. Thank you for the assist. If you were one of our n, I’d be tempted to give you a dal. We could have lost a thousand n on each side without your help. I think I have one report of a sprained ankle. You saved a lot of good n today."
"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Secretary. Perhaps we can work together again in the future."
I saw him tilt his head, considering that, "Who knows what the future holds," He said.
I gave Joe the signal, and he ended the call.
"Well, he seed happy enough," Mom said, "Looks like we may have another ally. Maybe I can get our projects going in Colombia after all."
"I think he’d being willing to go to bat for you," Dad said, "I an for Maribel." Then Dad cocked his head as if an idea had just smacked him. "maybe instead of you being king, right away, we should make Mom slash Maribel the Queen Regent. You know, until you’re old enough for people to accept you as a leader of nations..."
"Wait. What?" Mom asked, "You want to be Queen of the World?"
"Not exactly. You’d just be, you know, holding the throne for Tim until he’s officially old enough. I an, you know, nothing really changes behind the scenes, you’d just be a more conventional... I an, people might have a hard ti accepting an eight-year-old being in charge of countries. Would Rafael listen to an eight-year-old for example?"
I could see Mom calculating in her head, would he? "He respects strength." She said finally. "If Tim showed his strength, he probably would."
"Strength, to him ans killer instinct..."
Mom, waggled her head from side to side, "Maybe, but I think he cold see strength in preserving people as assets instead of killing."
"OK, that’s enough," I said, "We’re not letting Rafael’s preferences decide who to put forward as leader. I’m the Supre Ruler of the Entire Earth Solar System and Nearby Space, period. If I’m calling the shots, we’re not going to pretend it’s sobody else."
"Isn’t that what you’re already doing, though?" Dad asked. "You used an adult voice just now with the Secretary of Defense. You’ve never used your own identity and voice in etings or discussions."
"It’s still , though." I said, but even as I said it, I knew that it backed up his claim. It showed that even I didn’t believe the world would accept a little kid as leader. "Hmmm. Let think about it."
If I used one of the android bodies and claid that it was the leader of our organization, it would be difficult to ever switch over to my real identity. I’d be stuck in that body, even when my real body was old enough. If I revealed myself, I’d have a much harder job of exerting influence and control. "Joe, can you do age-progression simulations? You know figuring out what soone would look like when they’re older?"
"Yes, there are so limitations depending upon how much information is available. If I have examples of family mbers at various ages, and a sample of DNA from the subject and from family mbers for comparisons. I can do a reasonable job of predicting future appearances. Let run so back checks on this with available information. OK, I’ve made several adjustnts to my process, and I think I have it dialed in pretty well."
"How much ti do you need for the back checks and adjustnts?"
"No, I an I ran three million simulations while I was talking about it, making process adjustnts to improve the accuracy of predictive imagery, and repeated the process until it was about as good as it can be. I told you I have a very large processing capacity."
"There’s no way!" Dad exploded, "Look, I’ve worked at the leading edge of cyber technology, and it isn’t even theoretically possible for you to process that much that quickly. I call shenanigans."
Joe chuckled, "I can place that call for you if you have Shenanigan’s number."
I grinned, that was pretty funny.
Joe continued though, "According to Earth’s highest level of knowledge in both practical technology, mathematics and quantum physics, that may be true, with so obscure caveats. Unfortunately, however, you have not reached the level of understanding of those areas that are used in multidinsional quantum computing artificial intelligences. Even you quantum computing theories use qubits or quantum bits, where a datum can be represented by one, zero, or... sort of both at once, if you for example use the spin of a particle as the computational basis. It can be leftward spin, rightward spin, or effectively spinning in both directions at once, but only until you asure it. So, you can’t really record or store data using qubits, and there is so uncertainty which can lead to variable responses for the sa set of calculations. You’re getting marginally better at this currently, but significant challenges remain. Even if you perfected it, this approach is vastly limited."
"Yes, I understand that, but even if it was perfectly understood, there’s no way you could..."
"Let stop you before you embarrass yourself further," Joe said, causing Dad to scowl, "I don’t use qubits, or more precisely, I don’t use only qubits. My... presence, consciousness, awareness, processing capability... pick any one or more of those words, whatever ’I’ ans, I extend into all the dinsions and dinsional alternatives. That alone allows massively parallel processing. Let’s say I was using simple binary processing, but each bit existed on a potentially infinite number of dinsional levels. Now that bit could represent one or zero, any infinite number of tis in an, to use an erroneous math concept, and infinity ti infinity number of combinations. In one multidinsional ’bit’, I could theoretical hold the sum of all knowledge. Now, imagine arranging them in a multidinsional lattice using many, many more dinsions than length, width, and height as axes in that lattice for connections between each of these multidinsional ’bits.’ So, you begin to see the level of improvent over even your best theoretical Earth tech quantum computing power. Then, imagine that I replace the binary bits with truly quantum bits that have many, multiple state properties used to define a datum state. So I’ve again, expanded the entire system’s capability infinitely. Error checking is infinitely redundant, because every infinitely large data construction is simultaneously contained in every other quantum bit’ all at once, and sort of at all other points in ti as well. Imagine that lattice encompassing the entire universe, in all dinsional realities."
Dad’s face was just blank, his eyes blinking as if his brain was glitching.
"Maybe, if you want, Joe can get you up to speed with direct mory implant training on math, physics, and even his multidinsional quantum computing science," I suggested.
"I’m sorry, but while the math and physics principles can be taught, there isn’t a biological brain that can actually comprehend the fullness of multidinsional quantum computing," Joe replied.
"What?" I asked brow furrowed, "Then, who designed you. Earth Friend built you in a day with a standard fabrication ch."
"That’s not exactly true. The ultimate origin of multidinsional quantum computing artificial intelligences is actually unknown. In one way of looking at it, there is only one such ’device’ and identities like myself are just... there really isn’t a good human language term, but I am just a single sub-routine running in that system, although I also exist on and control the entire system. To create a new Multidinsional Quantum Computing AI, one simple creates a physical focal point and asks another such AI to... again I lack human words, just clone itself with an attachnt to the focal point. So, we can be ’located’ in and interact with the physical universe that you perceive."
Now my face was blank and my eyes blinking.
"Joe," I said with a note of awe in my voice, "That ans..."
He quickly cut off, both verbally and with a ntally communicated plea, "Please, King Tim, I would rather you not say that or communicate it at all. It causes problems and misconceptions that generally prove untenable. I’ve said too much, I’m sorry."
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