On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 9:04 PM Karl <[1]gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:

   Today's xkcd is [2]https://xkcd.com/2438/ "is siri alive? No.  How did
   she die?  Alexa defeated her in a battle hinging on the ability to set
   multiple timers."
   This is easy to convert into mcboss material.  A vivisected researcher
   in computerised neuroscience tries to make choices that preserve
   peoples' independence, humanity, etc.  Boss discovers her and thinks
   she is trying to take over the business because their values differ,
   and both can observe the other using the automated systems.  (I might
   put this in the past, before the comic timeline here.  Maybe the
   experimentees replay the story in a burst of confusion, resulting in
   boss's death.  Or maybe this could go differently.  Boss is obviously
   an experimentee of sorts, too, but we're getting ahead of ourselves
   here.)

   They'd be an experimentee now, managing feeling bubbles among the
   community to protect what is right as best she can, in the ways her
   cognitive habits remember how to.  And maybe they did take over the
   business in a struggle some time ago, once it became clear that boss
   was a violent sociopathic. Uhh I actually have patches of this other
   story kind of elsewhere a little, it has a really different tone and is
   very sad.  The researcher had a daughter, but boss dissociated and
   isolated their memories of their daughter, and they don't know how to
   find those memories or whether they are recoverable to know who their
   daughter is nowadays.

References

   1. mailto:gmkarl@gmail.com
   2. https://xkcd.com/2438/