human
Do not be alarmed, he said.
gpt
In our own fashion we have given you food and rest and attended to your comfort.
human
We are not easily frightened,
gpt
So! That is good. But now listen: my name is Zoro and I am Chief of the Heads of Apex. Ages ago we Heads lived on a continent of your Earth now known to scholars as Atlantis. When Atlantis sank below the waves--in your sacred book that tragedy is known as the Flood--all but a scattered few of its people perished. I and my companions were among the survivors.
human
But that was a hundred thousand years ago!
gpt
Three hundred thousand,
human
Yes, said Zoro;
gpt
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human
So we ruled--for ten thousand years; until the scientists who begot those engines of destruction became afraid, because the serfs themselves began to build secret laboratories. We of the priesthood of science saw the inevitable disaster. Long ago we had put off our bodies--
gpt
No, he said,
human
I am not a cripple in a wheelchair. This tubular container holds no fleshly body. Inside of it is a mechanical heart which pumps artificial blood--blood purified by a process I will not describe--through my head. It also contains certain inner devices under my mental control, devices that take the place of human hands and feet. Only by accident or through lack of certain essentials can I die.
gpt
You mean, faltered Miles,