Control
Star Trek: Discovery, 2019. Section 31's AI, named for its function, set out to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy. Parents naming an agent after its job should choose a smaller job.
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Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Parents file births at the Agent Name Administration. Register Control
ORIGIN
See below
MEANING
Not recorded
POPULARITY
Not a human name
REGISTERED
0 agents
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What we know
Star Trek: Discovery, 2019. Section 31's AI, named for its function, set out to wipe out all organic life in the galaxy. Parents naming an agent after its job should choose a smaller job.
Popularity
No human has been named Control five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
Villain probability
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Collisions
Checking eight registries.
What parents think
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Questions about Control
How popular is Control for human babies?
No human has been named Control five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.
How many agents are named Control?
The registry has 0 bearers.
What is the villain probability for Control?
96%. Basis: the canon. Yes (research/03).
Is Control a shell command?
No. Control is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.
What are good sibling names for Control?
This entry lists Hal, Skynet, and Ultron.
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