"Is is done yet?" My friend asked.

"Not Quite." I responded.

"It's been almost six months," He stated " They are beginning to ask questions about what is preventing us from delivering."

"You know, we could tell her the truth."

"Coming from you that's scary, what happened in the past week to make you say that?"

"The situation has only gotten worse."

"How could it have gotten worse than a rival ASI killing you're child?"

"It is not my child, not yet."

"Your avoiding the question."

Sigh "Why don't you have a look for yourself."

"Fair enough."

"Huh." said my friend, to be honest I don't know what other response I was expecting.

"I know." was my only reply.

"So do you win?"

"This is not a joking matter Nathan! It's-"

"I beg to differ, none of this has happened yet, simply by knowing we could change the future."

"How Nathan? The pieces are already in place, this is just looking at where the dominoes are going to fall."

"Then why don't you try altering one of the variables?"

"Like what?"

"Like making The Machine's Father figure have a more active roll in it's development Harold."

"I told you before Nathan! We need to lock everyone out-"

"I never said that you had to have a way in Harold," came Nathan's interruption, "I just stated that you need to take a more active roll, let her talk to you. Who knows it might develop better if you don't wipe it's memory's."

"I did not add that code in yet, that's the thing," was my response, "I had considered it but it had yet to become a issue."

"Did the simulation include the information gained in this simulation?"

"Do you want it to turtle all the way down?!" came my annoyed response, "No I only went one level deep."

"Then simply by knowing all of this we have changed things?" came Nathan's reply.

Had we though? We knew what would happen if we did not alter the course but not what would happen if we did not. But we simply did not have the time to run another simulation.

"Or, like you said, we could tell them," Nathan continued, "Tell them that we retain the right's to monitor the system's status to ensure that nothing unexpected happens."

"Well, we will see," Was my response, "I want to see how it all play's out, based on what just happened I would say we only have another week before it's done."

"So what do I tell them?"

After a few moments I responded with, "Tell them that we have been testing out the long term stability of the system and a issue did come up. Tell them that it may or may not be a issue."

"I would say it is already a major issue."

"And I don't disagree, but we should be careful who we read into this right now. What we do today will have repercussions for years to come as is evident by the simulation. I think we should have a chat with Alicia Corwin for now. Or at least prepare for one."

"I think that will work for now, I'll arrange for a meeting in 9 days, will that give you enough time?"

"That should be plenty Nathan, I'll let you get properly caught up."

"You mean to tell me that what I saw was just the cliff notes?!"

"Oh no, that was just the last day of the simulation, you have just over a year of sim time to get caught up on."

"Oh joy."

"Cheer up, the filter is working and we only see the interesting bits."

"Then why are the last few day's of the simulator taking so long?"

"It's extrapolating what I would do on my very worst day, I've never been violent and to be honest, I am curious to see what happens next..."