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[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused]] with [[Digimon Adventure 02|Dae]][[Digimon V-Tamer 01|mon]], [[His Dark Materials|Daemons]] or the [[Mailer Daemon]] trope.
▲{{examples|<code>ALLTHETROPES:/Daniel Suarez/Daemon/Tropes$ cat tropes.txt_</code>}}
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Explicitly subverted. The Daemon is in no way an AI, nor is it ever claimed to be one. Experts repeatedly have to correct people who do refer to it as an "AI" by explaining that at best it is a distributed network of expert systems with a predefined set of actions, and in no way intelligent. Although its actions can be construed as evil, the Daemon itself is just a program and no more evil than a spreadsheet or word processor. However, it is very, ''very'' sophisticated and comprehensive.
* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: A favoured tactic of the Daemon in recruiting its agents. As an example, when it springs Charles Mozely from prison by cleaning his record, it warns him when he starts getting cold feet that it could easily put him back. Say, as a child molester.
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** Rule #2: No plan, no matter how well thought out, no matter how well made, no matter how many variables have been taken into account, survives first contact with the enemy.
** Rule #3: [[Finagle's Law|Murphy's/Finagle's Law]] - Anything that can go wrong will.
** Rule #4: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131111073352/http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-technology.html Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.]
** Rule #5: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030045753/http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-computer.html Debugging is at least twice as hard as writing the program in the first place. If your code is as clever as you can possibly make it, then by definition you're not smart enough to debug it.]
** Rule #6: Sometimes a [[Gambit Roulette]] works.
* [[The Game Come to Life]]: Early on, the autonomous Hummer is believed to have been programed with videogame-style logic and CyberStorm's games are used to recruit talent for Sobol's cause. As the Daemon network becomes more sophisticated and populated by warm bodies, it's run very much like a MMORPG with the addition of [[Augmented Reality]] glasses providing a heads-up display; agents gain levels and earn "network credits" for completing tasks.
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