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Dear
Professor Goodhart,
Out of
respect for your scientific insight and our long-standing fellowship, I am writing to explain my recent
disappearance. I hope it will please you to know that I did not get murdered
during a robbery. Rather, I took what I needed from our laboratory and fled,
far beyond the reach of those ignorant plebs who run your so-called
‘government.’
Don’t
bother trying to trace this email, by the way. You know the extent of my
technological talents. I don’t want to be found, so of course, I won’t be.
I wish I
could have stayed and pursued this work openly, of course, but our intellectual
inferiors meddled one too many times. I would hate for you to think I made this
choice out of expedience or, worse, cowardice. Quite the contrary, I left our
lab to bravely carve out a piece of the future.
Don’t
worry, I was never fooled by your pretenses about agreeing with the idiots and
their ‘morality’ and ‘consent’ nonsense. At your age, you needed to keep up the
act even when we appeared to be alone, to ensure that the morons would continue
providing you with life-saving—if obviously mediocre—medical care. I know you
secretly love the project as much as I do.
You should
know that, as always, I am moving forward in the best possible way. Since the
goal is to refine humanity, I started, of course, by cloning my own superior
genome. After some troubleshooting, the
cloning process is now producing anatomically correct humans at a rate of 83%.
I’ve now moved on to creating clones with genetically engineered improvements.
It’s progressing slowly. As you know, it’s always terribly frustrating when one
has to incinerate an entire batch of failures and start over again, but I
assure you I am persevering.
I will pay
any price for perfection.
Sincerely
yours,
Yuriko
