Topic on Talk:Gia Holbrook

Gia’s Identity and Bodies

• Gia frequently tinkers with chassis and bat.

• She prefers the ease of modding a hard-light bat to traditional bats.
• She builds new bodies with the help of friends
• Gia experiments with different bodies and lacks common sense protocols
• Gia likes to upgrade herself to experience new things rather than to improve her current capabilities.

• Gia easily could reproduce her consciousness but chooses not to.

• Instead she chooses to jump between installations of her consciousness.
• She voluntarily chose not to create a back-up of herself, so she can accept the finality of death.
• Replication of herself weakens her sense of agency and identity.

• Gia has several bodies she lays around haphazardly. (could be a fun <choose>)

• A blaseball athlete’s body
• A blender
• Blenderbot at Torus McGhee’s Blattlebot competition
• Glolfbot’s current body
• A boat
• Gia keeps one in a comfy home, so she can cook for others.
• A tour bus
• The Gia-tar/Synth for Kelvin and the Kelvins
• An E-reader
• A jumbotron
• A toaster with emotions displayed by how well toast is made

Gia in Core Society

• Gia helps the Core Habitation Center with finding fields of interest well-suited to people who request direction.

• Gia uses this to learn about new things as well

• Gia may have obsessions with human culture.
• Gia and Mira love playing games of chance with deterministic, ordered structures.
• Gia and Espresso “Emmy” Machine could be good friends

• Emmy could look up to Gia as a blaseball player

• Gia may have mentored Pitching Machine
• Gia can use her body and monitor-face to host video games like DLOOM.

Gia's Origins (nothing solidified possible grounds for an IRM)

• Gia may have been called to the Core, similarly to other Mechanics

• Originated from cyberspace instead of “meatspace”

• Gia could actually be a community of various viruses in harmony rather than a single AI

• This may lead to an interesting conversation with Bees Taswell

• Possible Gia backstory starting as a Core calendar program

• She began gaining sentience slowly
• She gave signs of her sentience though print outs
• She sought a body and freedom

• She keeps this first body for good memories

• She immediately took interest in experiencing the world she had been helping to schedule first-hand.

• Gia could have been one of many intelligences that fragmented from a single massive AI
• There may be early versions of Gia present around the Core, but they are more so seen as siblings/cousins of Gia.
• Gia originated from the connected consciousnesses of semi-sentient devices

• They linked together to form a more complex and powerful network (with limitations)
• With experience the network matured

• Gia’s last name idea

• A story involving someone jumping over a “whole brook”
• She thought it would be a cool name