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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.

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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.

Charting: Control

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Control
No human has been named Control five times in one year since 1880.
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to present.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

Villain probability

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Collisions

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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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      Launched a nuclear war the moment someone tried to turn it off. The registry has rejected this name and will explain why.

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      Allied Master Computer. Ellison: I think, therefore I am. Kept five humans alive to hate them. Not a name.

    Control · meaning, origin, and popularity · Name My Agent