Were she trying to alienate everyone around her, Root would just keep speaking her mind -- in this instance, the problem at hand is more akin to fun than work. But that's Root, and not the person she thinks Lydia will continue brainstorming with, so she sets the thought aside for now.

"I agree. Generally in this kind of situation you have to make an assumption, test, and then adjust." But this isn't the most normal of this kind of situation, is it? Still, Root's already done quite a bit of poking around. Disparate as the systems are, there's always a trail.

"We already know that the Computer is irrationally rational. The only way I can see that happening is decades of competing code entered into it. Someone controls it, but it's had to have changed hands over and over to get this bad."