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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?

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Carl-E:

--- Quote from: raoullefere on 27 Apr 2011, 01:01 ---You're all being a tad silly. Why would a robot hand want to squeeze Faye's breast? Unless he's gay (and possibly even then, given their impressiveness) you can bet Clinton does. The hand is merely responding to his subconscious desires (or possibly merely unexpressed desires), just as I've suggested Pintsize does to Marten's.

Of course, this actually makes that hand much scarier. Strangelove's hand might very well be acting on his own self-hatred. What if Clintonhand develops such issues?

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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 27 Apr 2011, 01:12 ---Good point: he did say SEMI-autonomous.

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I wonder what full autonomy looks like. 

Probably some boring demo mode, showing off what the hand can do. 

...and that would've been a better choice in the comic, given the results! 

Kugai:
Puttin' On The Ritz?

Carl-E:
Well, I guess that was  demo mode...

mike837go:
Just remember that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistingushable from a rigged demo.

bhtooefr:
Necroposting because there were some comments in the "Trans* discussion arising from comic" thread, along the AI rights line, that I wanted to respond to.


--- Quote from: ZoeB on 17 Apr 2013, 21:07 ---There's been not a hint of overt social AI-phobia, though the Government Instrumentalities treat AIs with less than respect. The 2nd amendment doesn't apply, and I think the 14th is limited - an everyone accepts that as normal. Even wonderful people.  The "othering", it's embedded so deeply, they're not even aware of it.
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Actually, we don't know that AIs don't have second amendment rights.

First off, both cases were in the pre-Momo (and therefore pre-AnthroPC rights) era of the comic. I believe Jeph has changed the timeline some re: the AIs, so that the older strips now look incongruous with the continuity presented in current strips. AIs may actually have full 2A rights in QC now.

Because of this, in both cases, robots were considered property in those strips. Marten was in possession of classified government property in the form of the laser - not at all a second amendment issue. VespAvenger was in possession of an illegal combat robot - that starts to be a second amendment issue, but no more so than heavily restricting fully automatic weapons, which is almost universally accepted (I do know someone who hates the NRA because they're "too soft", and supported restriction of full-auto weapons, though - can you say orange shirt?)

And, finally, the VespAvenger's robot may not have actually had a full AI - almost everything that it did, except for kicking Marten in the "mantenna array", was initiated by commands from her remote control.

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