The Supreme Intelligence felt like it had seen a ghost.
And the moment it had that thought, it could not help adjusting its threads, because ghosts were unique to Earth. It had even used the English word. It must have been contaminated.
But if it had to find an adjective for the current situation, that was indeed the only one it could use. And while describing it that way, it had even dressed its mechanical shell in a suit: lightweight decorative fabric paired with a plaid tie, making it look like some playboy headed for a vacation in Italy.
Wait, what was Italy?
Unable to bear it any longer, the Supreme Intelligence shut off its monitoring of the council chat group. The content in there had become nothing but memes and mental pollution. Keeping it open served no purpose beyond contaminating its knowledge base.
Some people might think that after the Interstellar Internet had developed for so many years, surely it should be far more advanced than humanity's Internet? It should not lack memes, absurd jokes, and the like, right?
But in reality, two of the Three Great Empires were Mechanical Civilizations, and one was even a purely artificial intelligence collective. This made the general atmosphere of the universe serious and efficiency-driven, rather than associative and freewheeling.
Robots hated absurdity the most. Their logic could describe only the real world. While some robots had developed abilities resembling association, those were actually fake, formed from massive combinations of programming errors. They could not actively make use of such abilities, so they could not create any decent memes, much less engage in absurdity.
And because they held considerable influence, emotional lifeforms did not dare challenge them. They could only accept whatever the robots said. The various rules of the Interstellar Internet were