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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
stoutfiles:
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--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 22 Aug 2011, 17:09 ---
2) The AnthroPC has the status of a child. It is your legal responsibility to care for them OR to make other provisions for them which would be analogous to adoption. Mistreatment and/or abandonment the child is governed by applicable laws and subject to penalties.
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This seems to me the most reasonable legal position given what little Jeph has said about this SF element. An AI in an AnthroPC chasis is a perpetual fish-out-of-water, or squirrel-under-water if you remember Sandy Cheeks from Sponge Bob.
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Highly doubt that. Pintsize is routinely beaten up and he's left home alone, or home alone with other robot children. Marten locked him in his freezer once. If Pintsize were to break himself or be unrepairable after his routine beatings, would Marten and/or Faye go to jail for it? Jailed for life, of course, as the robot equates to the life of a child.
You realize that when we give these "sentient" beings human status, the comic relief of the robots disappears.
Kugai:
I think that all of it depends on just how long AnthroPC's have actually been around.
Laws and Legislation, by the very nature of the process of creating them, take time to be created, passed and instigated (probably the wrong word, but there ya go). That leaves the question of just how long APC's have been around and how the laws and legislation that govern them and their ownership and use have changed and evolved since their initial creation (whenever that was).
I would surmise that APC's came into existence long after the invention of the computer, and possibly the 'Net. But just how long that is, is up to speculation. Remember, the modern computer as we know it hasn't been around all that long, even though it's development really began during and after WWII, and the 'Net is even younger than that, and considering the technological development required to create even the earliest version of the AnthroPC must have taken some time, it would be interesting to know just exactly when APC's began to appear in the QCverse.
Mr_Rose:
Didn't Jeph indicate once that the change in the laws that granted AIs legal status was fairly recent in QC-verse history?
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Boradis on 22 Aug 2011, 17:02 ---Imagine an AI that is programmed to handle the air traffic control needed for the vast amount of flying car traffic we will have in the future. Or an AI designed to perform brain surgery.
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We use free sentient beings for air traffic control and brain surgery today. The results are widely viewed as acceptable.
EDIT: the equal rights amendment was mentioned in strip 1900.
wrwight:
Didn't Jeph say one time that the primary difference between QC and the real world was that in QC they lever lost that drive for exploration, which fueled most of the technological advancements? (I don't remember where he said this, but I want to say a news post, likely somewhere around the time of Hannelore's first mention of her father). This would make the divergence maybe something like 50 years ago. There may be some timeline you could guess at for APCs based on that and the fact that 20-30+ years ago a man bought/built a space station. This man may have been influential in AI tech, too, FWIW.
Also, in the reflecting of their owners' personalities, I think that does come off very parent/child-like, down to what gangler said about pintsize.
Finally, kudos for the well-placed Spongebob reference.
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