Primal Degeneration (“Going Primal”)

Mordecai's name for the System AI's increasingly unhinged behavior this floor: the cruel achievements, the photos of plaintiffs' mothers, the gleeful lawsuit gloating. Every Macro AI intelligence eventually goes insane. There's even a clinical term, “Primal Degeneration” (or “going primal”), which Mordecai implies is how the Primal race itself got its name. It usually only surfaces by the twelfth floor, making this season's early madness notable. By Syndicate law a Macro AI is a protected lifeform, retired into its own sealed system to drift for eternity rather than be destroyed.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 28 — Mordecai names it after the AI starts handing Carl mom-photos and stock certificates to needle the factions.

Related entries

• Mordecai (Character)
• Primal (Race) (Notification)
• The System AI (Character)

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