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What does Ivy know?

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g33k:
We know that she sees/knows/whatever everything that gets written down.

We have WoJ, IIRC, that this includes teh Interwebz.

What about non-text?  Drawings, paintings, etc?  Does she "know" all the labels on a technical drawing, but not see the image they are labeling?  She know all the praise heaped in print onto the Mona Lisa, but does she need to go see it in-person to know what all the hype is about?

She saw the script for Star Wars (and every other movie, including those that never got beyond the script) but does she "see" the movies that are made, as they are recorded onto film (and now digital)?

Speaking of digital (and teh Interwebz) -- that all comes down to 1's & 0's, which is textual (digits being text) in addition to being logical... so does that mean everything online, not just stuff that's obviously-text?


I mean, I can see all manner of grand strategic (and even close-tactical) advantages.

But... I'm being kind of skeeved-out here.  All that porn, all that hate-speech, private journals of the psychotic, etc etc etc...  In the head of little Ivy.
 
What about it, folks?  Ya got any sort of relief for me, from my creepy ideas?

Snark Knight:
I believe the WOJ about her getting the internet said it included the disturbing stuff. The archive construct was absolutely not meant to cope with the sheer amount of information online in the modern era, let alone the psychological effects of being flooded with all the nasty bits. It's a minor wonder she hasn't gone all Ultron already. But she is capable of deleting information for the oblivion beings that have been out-of-print for a thousand years. She may be adapting the same to, say, filter all YouTube comments directly to spam.

The catch-all of any knowledge meant to be recorded also includes pictures, oral traditions, etc though. Probably even include Maggie Sr.'s map of the Ways stored in the gemstone Harry got.

Mira:


Ivy doesn't know anymore than any other intelligent girl her age, she is merely a vessel... Now the Archive, that is a different story and I believe it was said it knows everything that has been written down and is currently written down..

pcpoet:
I think the archive and ivy are two distinct personalities.  I think the archive does its best to protect ivy but cant because at the same time they are the same entity.

Mira:

--- Quote from: pcpoet on July 31, 2019, 09:17:51 AM ---I think the archive and ivy are two distinct personalities.  I think the archive does its best to protect ivy but cant because at the same time they are the same entity.

--- End quote ---

I doubt that it does,  in fact it is the vessel that seems to give up everything to accommodate the Archive...   This was a huge factor as to why Ivy's mother suicided at a young age, remember Luccio got on Harry for even giving little Ivy a name.

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