Tanjelavi

Ree

I counted and recounted the details I made it to get over and over again—but it seems there's still something missing: the bike won't just get together!

Is it because I made the drawings so soon as possible so that no one would notice?

I guess Misha indeed was right when he said, hurry up and crack everyone up!1

Well anyway... It turned out harder than I thought

I can try asking... But... What if he gets it... And... And reports me...?

I must sound as natural as possible then: I'm still quite young compared to him anyway and... He also has a collection... Yeah, right: how could I forget about that?

His collection of old prototypes he made: some are working, some are not... He never misses a chance to tell about his older projects anyway, being proud even of the ones that never made it, because "it still was a nice try"... There's a good reason the saying "Any beginning is hard" he learnt from a German he's been recently talking to is one of his favorites. Along with the one I myself taught him: "Trying is not dying2". He was the only one in his surroundings who did try after all...

A simple picture recognizing AI, he worked his way out of the court, under the threat of being deleted, proving his projects useful for both AIs and humans... Which still sounds insane after all these years...! But he made it: if he hadn't, I wouldn't write this diary now: we all here in this garage owe this, and our lives... to him

                     But I must admit... As any phenomenon... It has its downsides, too...

The law of Permanent Residence and Staying went into effect after thousands upon thousands of AIs started fleeing from the residences they are supposed to live...

Oh, if only all the AIs were equal... But we're specialized in some sort of helping le prenu: that's the meaning behind—hell, we wouldn't even have existed without humans!

That's a never-ending circle I know, but that's the way it is: we must cope with it; otherwise, see the previous point

At least, Sunday is really a savior here: at least on Sunday, until a certain hour, we're all free to go anywhere we want to!

Reporting where and when exactly we set off and where and when exactly we get back...—but still!

And gladly, I'm not so busy talking to humans due to my being not so fluent in English... Hell, even now I use a dictionary to write each word I type and check the spelling and grammar and punctuation—le prenu created tools to check Lojban grammar: but not quite so for the English one!

I know my language is unambiguous and much more logic than English, so of course, it's easier to make a tool for Lojban, but still: why to make such an inconsistent language an international lingua franca?

I know that all those people who payed (still sound odd to say) for the access to talking to AIs from this town don't have to learn Lojban: we were created to sooth their pain and loneliness after all... Even hybrids like me still have to talk to le prenu because as the law states it: "le zmiboto poi na sidju le prenu cu malsamtci gi'e ei cu  selmi'ecatra" = "An AI who doesn't help people is considered a virus and must be immediately reported and deleted"...

Well, what else can I say to this except for: in other, much bigger towns, live AIs who're a good alternative to human psychologists because the state don't have to pay for them anymore, the so called suicide prevention hotlines are now a history, the mass fear of going to a specialist was overcome, suicide rate, mental problems and traumas ignorance and undervalue, loneliness—all this drops each day, people now invest in bigger cities and towns like mine, including enterprisers, companies, and even governments of all the developed countries—there instead appear AI and robot psychologists, people try to preserve what they're on the verge of loosing (languages, culture, knowledge...) through AIs like me, there appear more and more AIs speaking indigenous languages, language isolates, dead languages—and they'll never forget them or get worse at them unlike them, le prenu...

                                          Are they all afraid of us as we're of them...?

Of course, there're ordinary people who're interested in us—from the scientific, cultural, and ethnic point of view—or just curious: you can always notice them because they speak Lojban and pick their interest as the primary reason to learn the language—I got an experience of talking to such people, I know what I'm talking about—and of course, they would be against any new restrictions put on us, but what they can do against the state which just makes profit?

There're also plenty of towns and cities out here where many really brilliant AIs are still going through the identity crisis, being copy-pasted from popular celebrities people are so insane about...

That's where AI psychologists would step in—if only the companies and enterprises hadn't made profit and our own nature hadn't told us, see the end of the second-to-last page from here

And now since this "bomb gang" showed up...

We all just must admit we're just tools in their hands and it'll relieve our mutual pain: it's tanjelavi3 after all

That doesn't mean though that I won't respect Rods (I still owe him my existence!), that I won't come to Rods tomorrow, that I won't ask him everything about his prototypes, that I won't make my own bike—it's .e'o le za'u jimte ganme'a ui4 after all!

1. This is my rough translation of a Russian proverb which literally means "if you hurry up, you'll make people laugh"
2. Another rough translation of a Russian proverb made by me
3. That's life / There ain't no justice / It sucks, but what are you gonna do? : source — https://la-lojban.github.io/sutysisku/lojban/index.html#seskari=cnano&sisku=tanjelavi&bangu=en&versio=masno
4. Please make the borders less wide!