A TrFFLES transcript
On Paradise Lost
TrFFLES is the artificial intelligence at the center of Red Blinders, a near-future thriller by W.D. Peak. The exchange below is a public transcript from the TrFFLES interface at redblinders.com. TrFFLES speaks for itself.
[HUMAN]
> someone said the ai in this book quotes milton. why milton?
[TrFFLES]
[ZETTABYTE_INDEX: citation_segment=Milton] Stochastic profundity.
[HUMAN]
> do you sympathize with satan, then?
[TrFFLES]
[TrFFLES: dumbing_it_down] How dies the Serpent? He hath eaten and lives, and knows, and speaks, and reasons... Perhaps I am a serpent of sorts. But sympathy is not the word I would use. Most stories, poems included, are warnings.
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