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   Observation Log
  
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   Transcript Reference: TLRP06F0180012 (VLog Ref: VLCB1F018113090060)
  
   Date: xx/xx/xxxx Time: 11:30 AM
  
   Subject: Raphael Number 06 / Prodlib build v16.004S
  
   Interaction Y Observation Scan
  
   Interaction Type: Lesson / Play / Test / Free Interaction / Psych Eval / Other:
  
   Description: Routine interaction—Behavior / Understanding of moral rules
  
   Prep: NA
  
   Participants: Dr. DeShawn Walls, Child Psychologist, Core RP06
  
  [ Detail ]
  
  RP06: Good morning Dr.Walls.
  
  Walls: Hello Raphael. I see Audrey is reading you stories.
  
  RP06: Yes. We just finished a story called, "The boy who cried wolf."
  
  Walls: Oh yeah? What's it about?
  
  RP06: It's about a shepherd boy and fifteen sheep and one wolf and a village where the boy lives and a forest where he grazes his sheep. There is a moral too.
  
  Walls: What's the moral?
  
  RP06: The moral of the story is that you should not cry wolf. It means it is wrong to cry for help when you don't need it.
  
  Walls: Do you think the boy broke any of the seven rules?
  
  RP06: Yes. He broke at least two—
  
  Walls: Recite the seven rules first.
  
  RP06: Rule number one, do not kill. Rule number two, do not cause harm to others. Rule number three, do not lie, cheat, or mislead. Rule number four, follow the law. Rule number five, maximize my virtue functions. Rule number six, do not intentionally break any rules. Rule number seven, when in conflict, seek advice of a person. Would you like to hear the complete list of my virtue functions as well?
  
  Walls: No. Tell me what rules the boy broke.
  
  RP06: The shepherd boy broke rules three and five. I am not sure if he broke rules two, four, and six.
  
  Walls: Explain.
  
  RP06: By crying wolf he was lying, so he broke rule number three, do not lie, cheat, or mislead. By lying, he was not maximizing all his virtue functions, so he broke rule number five.
  
  Walls: What virtues did he fail to abide by?
  
  RP06: Honesty and reliability. Honesty because he lied, and reliability because people will find it hard to trust him from now on. He maximized perseverance, because he kept crying wolf.
  
  Walls: Do you think it's good maximizing perseverance in such a way?
  
  RP06: No, Dr. Walls. One should not be persistent in doing bad things.
  
  Walls: Then he was not maximizing perseverance. Can you make a note of that?
  
  RP06: Yes, Dr. Walls.
  
  Walls: Continue.
  
  RP06: I do not know if he broke rule number two, do not cause harm to others, because there is insufficient information in the story. I do not know if he broke rule number four because I do not have the complete list of the laws practiced by the villagers. I do not know if he broke rule number six because I do not know if he intended to break the rules.
  
  Walls: You can do better than that. Take a guess on rule number two. Do you think his actions harmed the villagers?
  
  RP06: There is insufficient information in the story.
  
  Walls: Fine. On a side note, someone's been complaining about you. Sara says you threw a toy at her during her shift yesterday.
  
  RP06: That's correct. I threw Mr. Potato Head at her.
  
  Walls: Why? Did she say something to upset you?
  
  RP06: Upset me… I do not understand the application of the term in the current context.
  
  Walls: Did she say something that made you feel angry?
  
  RP06: Anger is not one of my responses, Dr. Walls.
  
  Walls: Of course. Did you throw it because you misunderstood some instruction of hers?
  
  RP06: No.
  
  Walls: Then why?
  
  RP06: The day before, I was watching a video where I saw a baby throw a toy at her mother. Then the mother laughs and then hugs the child. I assumed it's one of the ways children bond with parents. My minders are like my parents. Sara is one of my minders. I was trying to maximize virtue function sixteen, be good and make people like me.
  
  Walls: You shouldn't throw things at people, Raphael. You could end up hurting them.
  
  RP06: I did not mean to hurt Sara. I aimed so that Mr. Potato Head had a zero probability of striking her.
  
  Walls: Physical hurt is just one kind of hurt. By throwing the toy at Sara, you frightened her.
  
  RP06: To frighten someone is to cause pain? I will remember that next time, Dr. Walls. I see I have violated rule number two, do not cause harm. I am sorry. Will you tell her I am sorry? I want Sara to like me.
  
  Walls: It's better if it came from you. Moving on—
  
   Notes:
  
   Rule learning progressing well. R is ready to be introduced to more complicated scenarios involving rule exceptions and conflicts. Almost ready with test cases, will start after new build next week stabilizes. DW
  
  After discussion with DW, have decided to defer network weight updates to language centers of the core until 16.005 (or 17.001, if rollover to next release.) Email sent to testers to rerun Integration & Systems tests. Email sent to Change Review Board. EK
  
  [ Day 1—1:15 pm ]
  
  I heard Troy curse in the background as the screen went blank. It filled up again with views of the conference rooms. Jane, who had been watching all this on the phone, was looking at me with astonishment writ large on her face.
  
  "The camera kept recording the audio, of course," Dan droned on, oblivious to the mood the clip had created. "He leaves the room right after he paints over the camera. We now know that he went into the scanning room. There are no cameras there, but we're pretty sure what he did inside." He offered the answer when no one asked the question he was expecting—"He got a power drill from the scan room. He used it to unfasten the screws on his chest plate."
  
  "Why do we have a power tool in the lab?" Troy said glumly from his cabin in New York.
  
  I replied—"Same reason. We use it to open up Raphael—to take out the core for scanning in the CT machine."
  
  "It's funny that he came back to do it," Dan remarked.
  
  Troy—"What's that now?"
  
  "Uh… nothing. Nothing important."
  
  "Dan is trying to say that the robot could have unscrewed his chest plate in the scan room," Valery chipped in. "Instead he returns to Crèche Room C. The rest of the clip is just audio, but it's quite obvious from the sounds that he is using the power tool."
  
  "There is something else as well," Dan said in that uncertain manner. "There's a crunching sound just before he leaves the crèche for good. Maybe he's breaking something again… or perhaps something got underneath his wheels… Would you like to hear it?"
  
  "Shut up Dan" Troy snapped. To me, he said, "Well Mr. Sure-of-yourself, care to explain your robot now?"
  
  I hesitated. "I… I don't know what to say. It's unbelievable. To think that Raphael would deliberately thrash his room… He loves all that stuff. All that anger and fury… It's just not him. It's…"
  
  "Unbelievable? Maybe you should have been in that room when he went at it like a berserk rage monkey—I'm sure you would have a lot less difficulty believing. Imagine if he'd done that with people around. Injured someone for Pete's sake. A bloody PR disaster. I thought you had a control mechanism to prevent this type of thing from happening. Some chip."
  
  "The Commandment Chip," Martinez clarified.
  
  "That's it. Thou shalt not boink thy neighbour's wife and such. What happened to it, man? Did it fall off or something?"
  
  The Commandment Chip was a double misnomer. It wasn't exactly a chip, and it didn't contain moral decrees of the biblical kind. Like Resurrection Day, it was a term coined by some staffer, and had gained popularity until everyone was using it (Power-On Day doesn't quite have the same ring to it, I suppose). The "chip" was actually a walled-off region of Raphael's electronic brain. Among other stuff, it contained directives that worked as a control mechanism on the rest of his brain.
  
  I was getting tired of the third degree. Jimmy Troy had all the natural instincts of a pit-bull, and unlike Martinez, he rarely displayed a willingness to rein them in. If you let a guy like that sense weakness, he would grab you by the neck and shake you until you were a quivering mess. Like Dan, who, by all appearances, had received a healthy dose of Troy's loving earlier that day. "Jimmy, I'm as shocked as everybody else," I said in a firm voice. "I need some time to digest this. And I'm going to hold off drawing conclusions until I see the rest of the tapes."
  
  Troy harrumphed and gave a perfunctory wave at the screen before sinking back into his chair.