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WCDT 2116-2120 (6-10 Feburary 2012) QC in SPAAAAAAACE! Week 3
jwhouk:
I utilized the TSA list out of convenience, not because it exactly fit the situation.
From what I've gathered from Jeph's newsposts, AI's without an APC body and/or a physical form (i.e., intelligent toaster, forklift, submarine, space station, etc.) reside in a central AI "mind" located at some undisclosed central location. It's entirely possible that said location does get "backed up", but it's more likely that the AI's residing therein simply move elsewhere if there's a power issue or other problem.
There's a whole unexplored possibility for hacker/Anonymous terror issues with something like that. Imagine a cyber-terrorist who cuts the links to the outside world from an AI "holding tank" and then cuts the power to the tank... it'd have the same effect as blowing up a building or a suicide bomber. Could you imagine a whole AI/terrorist Cyberwar - and not a single human knows about it?
Skewbrow:
May be not entirely unexplored. The Starways Congress tried to kill Jane in Ender's saga in a similar way in Xenocide. I have not read "Children of the Mind" yet, so no spoilers, please.
Method of Madness:
Neither have I. In fact, I could never finish Xenocide, it was such a disappointment compared to the first two.
RyanW1019:
I personally found the Ender's Shadow series far more interesting than the Ender's game continuations, although that could have been because I read Children of the Mind/Xenocide/the others around age 13/14.
Milesb:
Ian M Banks' book Excession deals with the very interesting idea of AI Minds (Caps intentional, it's the term the book uses) being backed up due to the destruction of the original, only for the original to survive. It's well worth a read if you like the idea of a Spaaace Opeeraaa with conspiracy themes.
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