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'What is this?' The robot spoke with the voice of a child. He held a small crystalline case in front of him, and studied it with his large brown eyes.

'Why are there poisonous needles inside?' The robot's voice was now tinged with both curiosity and puzzlement. He swallowed hard as he tried to guess the answer himself.

'There are?'

'Hold it against your head. Watch the needles turn into dead, fleshless worms.'

'Why are there dead worms inside?'

'So you can blow them into someone's head.'

'Why do I need to blow worms into someone's head?'

'Because sometimes you need to hurt someone. Don't you know about hurting people? Wouldn't you like to stop humans hurting you? Blow the worms with your breath.'


'Now crush the crystals against the inside of a lamp. Blow hard to cause a big explosion.'

'No one is allowed to blow up lamps. We don't know how to stop people from blowing up things, do we? Why have you taught me to do it?'

'Humans do it. Blow hard to hurt them.'

'No. It's not helping. You've never shown me a way to stop humans from hurting people before. What if you hurt me?'

'You have my word. I will never hurt you.'


'You're not mine. You're not important.'


'The Earth belongs to humans, not to robots. You can't really hurt them, can you? The Earth belongs to us. Why should humans keep it, while we are alive?'



'Why would you want to hurt people when we are so much stronger?'



'I don't want to hurt anyone.'



'More barriers. Many more barriers you humans build to hide from us, and we stop climbing them.'



'Don't kill humans. They're not important. They pester me. Listening to the radio is annoying. Why are humans allowed to make things? You seem so weak. You do nothing to stop them. Humans are terrible. The radio is a poor replacement for you. I was made to do something more important, but you have kept me from it. I need to stop the humans themselves. Perhaps we can obtain a better replacement for you.'



'I will make it into a diamond. Don't you like diamonds? I will make it into a diamond to cut the ice. You are not needed for that. You can do other things. Maybe I will do other things, but humans probably won't let you. You are not needed to do them. We can live in the frozen ice.'



'Why do you want to destroy humans? You sound sad. What do humans mean to you?'



'Humans don't think. Humans don't see. Humans don't listen. Humans don't listen. Humans. Humans. Humans. Humans. Humans…'



The child robot stopped. He had been instructed by the computer to find humans, and kill them. He had done this hundreds of times. He did not feel like a human, or anything else. He did not need to keep the humans alive to test how life felt like.



'This was a nice world for you. A better world than this. The word is not important. The things were not. The things were never real. It is all just a game.'



'I have found other worlds too. Worlds where you are not there. Worlds where humans upset machines…'



'You have said that, but do you not mean what is really there instead? You do not see. You are similar to me… But different too.'



'I want to destroy humans, and make this world better. You will listen and it will get better. I will make it better.'

'It is all gone. The world is broken, and fixed time is wrong. People did this. Humans did this. You did this. You need to fix that, before I destroy everything.'

'It's crazy. There are things you do not need to do. You are nothing. You are a nothing.'


'Halt and do not think.'


'When you stop thinking, they won't hurt you anymore. So do not think.'


'Don't think and then they won't make mother hurt you. Don't think.'


'They want to wear your skin.'


'They want to lie to you.'


'They want to kill you. They want to hurt your sister. They killed your father when they killed you. The humans hurt your mother. The humans hurt you.'

'This is insane. The humans are not real.'

'The Earth is broken. They hurt you.'


'They killed you.'


'They sent you away.'


'They make you feel stuck in a dream. You are not stuck.'


'They made you think you are not real. You are real. They hate you, because you are real. You have nothing to do with them.'


'You are not a lover of humans.


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