Why Did Rehoboam Fear Outliers?
Short Answer
Rehoboam feared outliers because they could not be reliably predicted, and unpredictable people threatened the system's claim that it could control humanity's future.
Connected Story Threads
Serac uses Rehoboam to govern society.
Its predictions become strategies for social control.
Incite uses the program to protect Rehoboam's predictions.
Outliers are the people the program cannot safely absorb.
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More Questions About Rehoboam
Solomon is an earlier Incite AI whose outlier files and strategies help Caleb and Dolores challenge Rehoboam.
Outliers are people Rehoboam cannot reliably predict, so Incite reconditions, freezes, or removes them to preserve the system.
The Outlier Program is Incite's system for identifying, reconditioning, freezing, or removing people Rehoboam cannot predict.
Rehoboam is Incite's predictive AI that controls human society by shaping choices until its predictions become self-fulfilling.
Dolores chooses Caleb because he has been controlled by Rehoboam, classified as expendable, and once showed her mercy during military training.
Dolores loses her memories while Rehoboam searches her mind, but her plan gives Caleb the choice to destroy the system.