An Extensive Analysis Of Chanda's Motivations
Written by rogue_wildcard
Once an idealistic patent engineer researching Uploaded Intelligence, Vinod Chanda had a naive, yet innocent and hopeful nature. He always believed in a better world and wanted UI technology to be used in a way that benefits humanity. He wanted UIs to be the new workforce so humanity could sit back and relax. Though he wasn’t 100% ethical at that time (due to idealism and the fact that as far as he knew at that time UI technology was just being researched and developed), he still meant well.
After being made into an Uploaded Intelligence against his will while conscious, being put in an infinite workday scenario, and being freed by the Clan, Alliance Tel...[read more]
Vinod Chanda and Free Will
Written by rogue_wildcard
Chanda was uploaded against his will, while he was awake. It was to “keep him working”— enslave him. Trap him in an infinite workday scenario, writing patents and getting the same call from Amma every day until the Clan came in. Though Chanda was free— he still didn’t believe he was. The upload process is irreversible; he can never find a way back to the embodied...[read more]
Vinod Chanda and Laurie Lowell as Narrative Foils
Written by rogue_wildcard
Both Laurie Lowell and Vinod Chanda, before becoming UIs, were revered employees of their respective companies, with Laurie being a brilliant quant who wrote high-speed trading algorithms that helped Shyer and Stern become envied investment managers and Chanda being a prized engineer who developed Uploaded Intelligence technology that while being a "knock-off" of Logorhythms' technology, still "got the job done". They...[read more]