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[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, Nighttime
Where: The clearing, now no longer a beach

[ The beach fades away, leaving everyone back in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of the clearing and their-- beloved?-- train. There are some new stars in the sky, twinkling in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple, senna terracotta, jasmine blue, and clover pink.

The sound of a giggle fills the air and leaves behind bubbles-- touching one will give the uncontrollable urge to hug the nearest person. They will persist throughout the night. ]

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[bluediligence]

[ ooohhhhh! ]

When you put it like that, having an AI sharing your head sounds like a lot of hard work ... Isn't there a way to take them out for a while? Or ... I guess that wouldn't be very nice for the AI, if it meant they'd be stuck somewhere by themselves.

[schrodingerscockroach]

It's a few different things. Delta said York could pull him if he desperately needed sleep, but the Director wanted Agent and AI to be together as much as possible. To help the adjustment and growing pains get worked through as quick as possible.

And there is that idea too. Storing an AI isn't hard, but it means they would just be that. Stored. Allowing an AI to function beyond that requires a lot of processing power which either means specialized equipment, which is expensive, or something big, which takes space which is at a premium in a ship.

A human brain provides a lot of easy processing power.