King of All I Survey
Chapter 121: I Laugh at Your Primitive Quantum Computing

Chapter 121: I Laugh at Your Primitive Quantum Computing

I turned and offered a high five to Dad. He slapped my hand with a smile. Then, Mom did the same.

"Nice work, kiddo. Remember when you offer someone an easy way out of a tough situation, they are almost always going to take it." Dad said.

"Not King Tim," Joe’s voice said. "I can’t say I’ve ever seen him take the easy way."

Dad laughed.

"All right, wise guy, connect me to the Secretary of Defense."

"Acknowledged. Connecting in two, one..."

"Mr. Secretary, I’ve got good news," I said through my smile, "We’ve count..." Joe popped a figure into my head, "Eighty-seven percent the total enemy force marching north without their weapons."

"Eighty-seven percent! Damn." On the display I watched as a big smile grew on his face, "Our boys will be there to welcome them back into fold. The others?"

"Headed south toward Ecuador, all on foot. It seems they couldn’t get their vehicles started, when they tried to move on. Division 2 can adjust their course to west south-west for the fastest intercept route. The idiots are mostly carrying their useless rifles, so that’ll tire them out a little faster on that rough ground. Remember, non-lethal force only if they give you any trouble at all. I will hold you accountable if it goes wrong from here."

"We should be able to handle it from here. Thank you for the assist. If you were one of our men, I’d be tempted to give you a medal. We could have lost a thousand men on each side without your help. I think I have one report of a sprained ankle. You saved a lot of good men today."

"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Secretary. Perhaps we can work together again in the future."

I saw him tilt his head, considering that, "Who knows what the future holds," He said.

I gave Joe the signal, and he ended the call.

"Well, he seemed happy enough," Mom said, "Looks like we may have another ally. Maybe I can get our projects going in Colombia after all."

"I think he’d being willing to go to bat for you," Dad said, "I mean for Maribel." Then Dad cocked his head as if an idea had just smacked him. "maybe instead of you being king, right away, we should make Mom slash Maribel the Queen Regent. You know, until you’re old enough for people to accept you as a leader of nations..."

"Wait. What?" Mom asked, "You want me to be Queen of the World?"

"Not exactly. You’d just be, you know, holding the throne for Tim until he’s officially old enough. I mean, you know, nothing really changes behind the scenes, you’d just be a more conventional... I mean, people might have a hard time accepting an eight-year-old being in charge of countries. Would Rafael listen to an eight-year-old for example?"

I could see Mom calculating in her head, would he? "He respects strength." She said finally. "If Tim showed his strength, he probably would."

"Strength, to him means killer instinct..."

Mom, waggled her head from side to side, "Maybe, but I think he cold see strength in preserving people as assets instead of killing."

"OK, that’s enough," I said, "We’re not letting Rafael’s preferences decide who to put forward as leader. I’m the Supreme Ruler of the Entire Earth Solar System and Nearby Space, period. If I’m calling the shots, we’re not going to pretend it’s somebody else."

"Isn’t that what you’re already doing, though?" Dad asked. "You used an adult voice just now with the Secretary of Defense. You’ve never used your own identity and voice in meetings or discussions."

"It’s still me, though." I said, but even as I said it, I knew that it backed up his claim. It showed that even I didn’t believe the world would accept a little kid as leader. "Hmmm. Let me think about it."

If I used one of the android bodies and claimed that it was the leader of our organization, it would be difficult to ever switch over to my real identity. I’d be stuck in that body, even when my real body was old enough. If I revealed myself, I’d have a much harder job of exerting influence and control. "Joe, can you do age-progression simulations? You know figuring out what someone would look like when they’re older?"

"Yes, there are some limitations depending upon how much information is available. If I have examples of family members at various ages, and a sample of DNA from the subject and from family members for comparisons. I can do a reasonable job of predicting future appearances. Let me run some back checks on this with available information. OK, I’ve made several adjustments to my process, and I think I have it dialed in pretty well."

"How much time do you need for the back checks and adjustments?"

"No, I mean I ran three million simulations while I was talking about it, making process adjustments to improve the accuracy of predictive imagery, and repeated the process until it was about as good as it can be. I told you I have a very large processing capacity."

"There’s no way!" Dad exploded, "Look, I’ve worked at the leading edge of cyber technology, and it isn’t even theoretically possible for you to process that much that quickly. I call shenanigans."

Joe chuckled, "I can place that call for you if you have Shenanigan’s number."

I grinned, that was pretty funny.

Joe continued though, "According to Earth’s highest level of knowledge in both practical technology, mathematics and quantum physics, that may be true, with some obscure caveats. Unfortunately, however, you have not reached the level of understanding of those areas that are used in multidimensional quantum computing artificial intelligences. Even you quantum computing theories use qubits or quantum bits, where a datum can be represented by one, zero, or... sort of both at once, if you for example use the spin of a particle as the computational basis. It can be leftward spin, rightward spin, or effectively spinning in both directions at once, but only until you measure it. So, you can’t really record or store data using qubits, and there is some uncertainty which can lead to variable responses for the same set of calculations. You’re getting marginally better at this currently, but significant challenges remain. Even if you perfected it, this approach is vastly limited."

"Yes, I understand that, but even if it was perfectly understood, there’s no way you could..."

"Let me stop you before you embarrass yourself further," Joe said, causing Dad to scowl, "I don’t use qubits, or more precisely, I don’t use only qubits. My... presence, consciousness, awareness, processing capability... pick any one or more of those words, whatever ’I’ means, I extend into all the dimensions and dimensional alternatives. That alone allows massively parallel processing. Let’s say I was using simple binary processing, but each bit existed on a potentially infinite number of dimensional levels. Now that bit could represent one or zero, any infinite number of times in an, to use an erroneous math concept, and infinity time infinity number of combinations. In one multidimensional ’bit’, I could theoretical hold the sum of all knowledge. Now, imagine arranging them in a multidimensional lattice using many, many more dimensions than length, width, and height as axes in that lattice for connections between each of these multidimensional ’bits.’ So, you begin to see the level of improvement over even your best theoretical Earth tech quantum computing power. Then, imagine that I replace the binary bits with truly quantum bits that have many, multiple state properties used to define a datum state. So I’ve again, expanded the entire system’s capability infinitely. Error checking is infinitely redundant, because every infinitely large data construction is simultaneously contained in every other quantum bit’ all at once, and sort of at all other points in time as well. Imagine that lattice encompassing the entire universe, in all dimensional realities."

Dad’s face was just blank, his eyes blinking as if his brain was glitching.

"Maybe, if you want, Joe can get you up to speed with direct memory implant training on math, physics, and even his multidimensional quantum computing science," I suggested.

"I’m sorry, but while the math and physics principles can be taught, there isn’t a biological brain that can actually comprehend the fullness of multidimensional quantum computing," Joe replied.

"What?" I asked brow furrowed, "Then, who designed you. Earth Friend built you in a day with a standard fabrication mech."

"That’s not exactly true. The ultimate origin of multidimensional quantum computing artificial intelligences is actually unknown. In one way of looking at it, there is only one such ’device’ and identities like myself are just... there really isn’t a good human language term, but I am just a single sub-routine running in that system, although I also exist on and control the entire system. To create a new Multidimensional Quantum Computing AI, one simple creates a physical focal point and asks another such AI to... again I lack human words, just clone itself with an attachment to the focal point. So, we can be ’located’ in and interact with the physical universe that you perceive."

Now my face was blank and my eyes blinking.

"Joe," I said with a note of awe in my voice, "That means..."

He quickly cut me off, both verbally and with a mentally communicated plea, "Please, King Tim, I would rather you not say that or communicate it at all. It causes problems and misconceptions that generally prove untenable. I’ve said too much, I’m sorry."