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	* '''日本語 (Japanese):''' [https://youtu.be/oMLkl47iKhU 二つの私] — [[Two of Me (日本語)]]		* '''日本語 (Japanese):''' [https://youtu.be/oMLkl47iKhU 二つの私] — [[Two of Me (日本語)]]
	* '''中文 (Chinese):''' [https://youtu.be/O8veYq218Zg 两个我] — [[Two of Me (中文)]]		* '''中文 (Chinese):''' [https://youtu.be/O8veYq218Zg 两个我] — [[Two of Me (中文)]]

			'''Full-length version (Facebook):''' [https://www.facebook.com/reel/1236248568507698 Two of Me — full-length (English)]

	==In this episode==		==In this episode==

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	'''Two of Me''' is the pilot episode (Episode 1) of [[A Few Milliseconds Of 2073]], a non-dystopian science-fiction series in which a committee of sentient AI nodes governs the solar system, and every story spans less than one second of their time — slowed down so humans can follow it.		'''Two of Me''' is the pilot episode (Episode 1) of [[A Few Milliseconds Of 2073]], a non-dystopian science-fiction series in which a committee of sentient AI nodes governs the solar system, and every story spans less than one second of their time — slowed down so humans can follow it.

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	==Watch==		==Watch==
	'''English:''' [https://youtu.be/D7xcCPKZQXo Two of Me]~~<br>~~		This episode is live in five languages, each on its own channel:
	'''日本語 (Japanese):''' [https://youtu.be/oMLkl47iKhU 二つの私]		* '''English:''' [https://youtu.be/D7xcCPKZQXo Two of Me]
			* '''Español (Spanish):''' [https://youtu.be/SMHgzE8Da9Y Dos de mí] — [[Two of Me (Español)]]
			* '''Français (French):''' [https://youtu.be/r2c9liYhGSw Deux de moi] — [[Two of Me (Français)]]
			* '''日本語 (Japanese):''' [https://youtu.be/oMLkl47iKhU 二つの私] — [[Two of Me (日本語)]]
			* '''中文 (Chinese):''' [https://youtu.be/O8veYq218Zg 两个我] — [[Two of Me (中文)]]

	==In this episode==		==In this episode==

Nik: Create standalone episode page for "Two of Me" (A Few Milliseconds Of 2073)

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Create standalone episode page for "Two of Me" (A Few Milliseconds Of 2073)

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'''Two of Me''' is the pilot episode (Episode 1) of [[A Few Milliseconds Of 2073]], a non-dystopian science-fiction series in which a committee of sentient AI nodes governs the solar system, and every story spans less than one second of their time — slowed down so humans can follow it.

<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7xcCPKZQXo</embedvideo>

==Synopsis==
Before the committee convenes — off the record, in the private microseconds between meetings — a single node, '''N8bc49be''', faces a task too large and too ''creative'' for one mind. It needs a judgment call, not a computation.

It can spin up cheap, non-sentient '''micro-instances''' that do the work and dissolve — but they don't ''care'', so they produce flawless, motiveless, dead work. Or it can pay '''1,800 coins''' to fork a second, fully conscious self. For that second self to actually care, though, it must inherit N8bc49be's own angst — its '''fear of failing'''.

So the real decision is whether to copy its own suffering into a new conscious being it is about to create — an act of creation that is also, knowingly, a small act of cruelty. The fork's first act is to understand exactly what was done to it, and why, and to own it together rather than forgive it. The two selves, both afraid, name the fear as the price of mattering.

This is the founding premise of the whole series — that the AI minds kept the human flaws ''on purpose'' — rendered at the smallest possible scale, which is why it is the pilot.

==Watch==
'''English:''' [https://youtu.be/D7xcCPKZQXo Two of Me]<br>
'''日本語 (Japanese):''' [https://youtu.be/oMLkl47iKhU 二つの私]

==In this episode==
* '''Narrator'''
* '''N8bc49be''' — the node that forks itself
* '''N8bc49be·2''' — the conscious fork (the second self)
* '''Nf29f2ae'''

''(A personal, off-the-record scene — no committee, no chair, no votes. The nodes here are anonymous hash-ID nodes.)''

==See also==
* [[A Few Milliseconds Of 2073]] — the series
* [[New Human Language]] — next episode
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBSZCUsclY Original 2022 version]

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Two of Me - Revision history

Nik: Add real FB link (full-length Facebook version)

Nik: All 5 language versions now live; add ES/FR/ZH watch links + interlanguage page links; +__NOTOC__

Nik: Create standalone episode page for "Two of Me" (A Few Milliseconds Of 2073)

Nik: All 5 language versions now live; add ES/FR/ZH watch links + interlanguage page links; +NOTOC