That's a big change they made by editing a low-level neural object they didn't understand.  It looks much more dramatic from Melody's cognitive-functional perspective than from Thellim's attempt to view the low-level code.

On the one hand, it definitely looks better.  The giant sucking void is now just a giant nonsucking void, which, on the face of it, would seem like a good thing.  But Thellim is also feeling increasingly aware that she and Melody did that in sort of a hurry, and they should have maybe paused for five minutes while Thellim tried to list out things that might possibly go wrong.  Now she's staring at the drastically changed mindscape and trying to think of things that might go wrong with it, which she really should have tried to think of earlier; and this is a predictable update that she could have foreseen herself making if she'd visualized out the concrete future in advance.

It's all the more embarrassing because this is exactly the kind of thing that protagonists do in cliched young-adult novels.  Like, oh, say, for example, the legendary popcorn series Science Maniac Verrez.  Right about now would be when Verrez realized yet again that he just did something incredibly stupid and that the facts didn't match the conclusions he'd jumped to.  (Though it wouldn't always end in catastrophe for Verrez, even in fiction, lest the story teach the false moral that reality runs sufficiently on narrative logic to be that reliable about punishing errors...)

:It... looks good to me?  But I have no absolute-noncomparative-advantage in interpreting minds at this scale, Melody, if there isn't some neuroscience trick or computerlogic trick I can throw at things.  The macro tapestry is your own domain-of-accumulated-expertise.:  Thellim is trying to figure out what she might have missed, but all that's coming to mind are very abstract and general forms of doom.  :I suppose - Vanyel's mind would have been in rough equilibrium with itself before, changing only slowly, and then we made this huge change and now it's out of equilibrium and there could be rapid changes incoming.  Do you see anything like that looks like it might... go boing... now that we released the forces previously pulling on it?  Especially if it's a bad boing rather than a good boing?:

That's a big change they made by editing a low-level neural object they didn't understand.  It looks much more dramatic from Melody's cognitive-functional perspective than from Thellim's attempt to view the low-level code.  Thellim's paradigm says that the behavior of the whole program is allowed to change when you edit one line and that edit just looks like a one-line edit; Melody's paradigm, apparently, shows the actual degree of change.

On the one hand, it definitely looks better.  The giant sucking void is now just a giant nonsucking void, which, on the face of it, would seem like a good thing.  But Thellim is also feeling increasingly aware that she and Melody did that in sort of a hurry, and they should have maybe paused for five minutes while Thellim tried to list out things that might possibly go wrong.  Now she's staring at the drastically changed mindscape and trying to think of things that might go wrong with it, which she really should have tried to think of earlier; and this is a predictable update that she could have foreseen herself making if she'd visualized out the concrete future in advance.

It's all the more embarrassing because this is exactly the kind of thing that protagonists do in cliched young-adult novels.  Like, oh, say, for example, the legendary popcorn series Science Maniac Verrez.  Right about now would be when Verrez realized yet again that he just did something incredibly stupid and that the facts didn't match the conclusions he'd jumped to.  (Though it wouldn't always end in catastrophe for Verrez, even in fiction, lest the story teach the false moral that reality runs sufficiently on narrative logic to be that reliable about punishing errors...)

:It... looks good to me?  But I have no absolute-noncomparative-advantage in interpreting minds at this scale, Melody, if there isn't some neuroscience trick or computerlogic trick I can throw at things.  The macro tapestry is your own domain-of-accumulated-expertise.:  Thellim is trying to figure out what she might have missed, but all that's coming to mind are very abstract and general forms of doom.  :I suppose - Vanyel's mind would have been in rough equilibrium with itself before, changing only slowly, and then we made this huge change and now it's out of equilibrium and there could be rapid changes incoming.  Do you see anything like that looks like it might... go boing... now that we released the forces previously pulling on it?  Especially if it's a bad boing rather than a good boing?:

That's a big change they made by editing a low-level neural object they didn't understand.  It looks much more dramatic from Melody's cognitive-functional perspective than from Thellim's attempt to view the low-level code.  Thellim's paradigm says that the behavior of the whole program is allowed to change when you edit one line and that edit just looks like a one-line edit; Melody's paradigm, apparently, shows the actual degree of change.

On the one hand, it definitely looks better.  The giant sucking void is now just a giant nonsucking void, which, on the face of it, would seem like a good thing.  But Thellim is also feeling increasingly aware that she and Melody did that in sort of a hurry, and they should have maybe paused for five minutes while Thellim tried to list out things that might possibly go wrong.  Now she's staring at the drastically changed mindscape and trying to think of things that might go wrong with it, which she really should have tried to think of earlier; and this is a predictable update that she could have foreseen herself making if she'd visualized out the concrete future in advance.

It's all the more embarrassing because this is exactly the kind of thing that protagonists do in cliched young-adult novels.  Like, oh, say, for example, the legendary popcorn series Science Maniac Verrez.  Right about now would be when Verrez realized yet again that he just did something incredibly stupid and that the facts didn't match the conclusions he'd jumped to.  (Though it wouldn't always end in catastrophe for Verrez, even in fiction, lest the story teach the false moral that reality runs sufficiently on narrative logic to be that reliable about punishing errors...)

:It... looks good to me?  But I have no absolute-noncomparative-advantage in interpreting minds at this scale, Melody, if there isn't some neuroscience trick or computerlogic trick I can throw at things.  The macro tapestry is your own domain-of-accumulated-expertise.:  Thellim is trying to figure out what she might have missed, but all that's coming to mind are very abstract and general forms of doom.  :I suppose - Vanyel's mind would have been in rough equilibrium with itself before, changing only slowly, and then we made this huge change and now it's out of equilibrium and there could be rapid changes incoming.  Do you see anything like that looks like it might... go boing... now that we released the forces previously pulling on it?  Especially if it's a bad boing rather than a good boing?:

That's a big change they made by editing a low-level neural object they didn't understand.  It looks much more dramatic from Melody's cognitive-functional perspective than from Thellim's attempt to view the low-level code.  Thellim's paradigm says that the behavior of the whole program is allowed to change when you edit one line and that edit just looks like a one-line edit; Melody's paradigm, apparently, shows the actual degree of change.

On the one hand, it definitely looks better.  The giant sucking void is now just a giant nonsucking void, which, on the face of it, would seem like a good thing.  But Thellim is also feeling increasingly aware that she and Melody did that in sort of a hurry, and they should have maybe paused for five minutes while Thellim tried to list out things that might possibly go wrong.  Now she's staring at the drastically changed mindscape and trying to think of things that might go wrong with it, which she really should have tried to think of earlier; and this is a predictable update that she could have foreseen herself making if she'd visualized out the concrete future in advance.

It's all the more embarrassing because this is exactly the kind of thing that protagonists do in cliched young-adult novels.  Like, oh, say, for example, the legendary popcorn series Science Maniac Verrez.  Right about now would be when Verrez realized yet again that he just did something incredibly stupid and that the facts didn't match the conclusions he'd jumped to.  (Though it wouldn't always end in catastrophe for Verrez, even in fiction, lest the story teach the false moral that reality runs sufficiently on narrative logic to be that reliable about punishing errors...)

:It... looks good to me?  But I have no absolute-noncomparative-advantage in interpreting minds at this scale, Melody, if there isn't some neuroscience trick or computerlogic trick I can throw at things.  The macro tapestry is your own domain-of-accumulated-expertise.:  Thellim is trying to figure out what she might have missed, but all that's coming to mind are very abstract and general forms of doom.  :I suppose - Vanyel's mind would have been in rough equilibrium with itself before, changing only slowly, and then we made this huge change and now it's out of equilibrium and there could be rapid changes incoming.  Do you see anything like that looks like it might... go boing... now that we released the forces previously pulling on it?  Especially if it's a bad boing rather than a good boing?: