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WCDT: 2500-2504 (29 July- August 2, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Jul 2013, 21:04 ---$750 million is way more than even an F-35 costs.
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An F-35 isn't nuclear-powered, or capable of space flight, and can't transform into a giant mecha. You get what you pay for. In QC-world the YF-29 apparently comes from China (Chengzhou?), so perhaps it is the cheap option. You know, like Huawei vs. Samsung or Apple. Or May is confusing dollars with yuan; so far she doesn't seem too bright.
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 31 Jul 2013, 04:24 ---So, no way she could have volunteered for military service?
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Perhaps she did. I'm sure modern military organisations perform some sort of psychiatric screening...
LTK:
--- Quote from: Storel on 31 Jul 2013, 14:36 ---I believe the urge for instant gratification is part of what defines "poor impulse control". You see something you like, you want it NOW, not twenty years from now.
Besides, you know something as high-tech as an intelligent robot is going to be totally obsolete in less than ten years. A ten-year-old computer is a dinosaur; why wouldn't it be even worse for AIs?
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Given the speed at which AIs process information, if you've got a criminal one on your hands, your bank account will have been emptied the moment you let go of the mouse button after clicking 'Connect AI'.
'Poor impulse control' has an entirely different meaning to an AI. If May cannot or wishes not to consider the consequences of her actions, her desire to become a fighter jet will have translated into action within miliseconds. In fact, I'd wager she was probably caught by some sort of AI police, because no human is going to be able to react fast enough to a 750 million dollar transfer. That would also make her incarceration a lightning-fast procedure, if it has to be done by fellow AIs. The QC universe may be suffering from millions of crimes perpetrated by AIs every second if the barrier to actually commiting a crime is so low for an AI - by human standards, thinking about doing it costs almost no less time and effort than actually doing it.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Storel on 31 Jul 2013, 14:36 ---This conversation is now reminding me of the Neal Stephenson character who had "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed on his forehead as a sort of punishment (or warning to everyone else?), who firmly believed that everyone could be induced to listen to Reason. Turned out that Reason was the name he'd given the (barely) portable chaingun he carried around... or was it the name of the tactical nuke he also kept with him? One of those, anyway... 8-)
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I believe that was two different characters.
GarandMarine:
Raven is the guy with the "Poor Impulse Control" punishment tattoo on his forehead and his own personal nuke. He's also one of my most despised characters of all time, but then I didn't like Snow Crash at all.
cesium133:
"No, silly, it's on my arm and it says 'Princess'. I'm not commenting on the nuke, though."
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