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WCDT: 2500-2504 (29 July- August 2, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 31 Jul 2013, 18:36 ---Where's the facepalm poster when you need it?
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J:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 31 Jul 2013, 04:03 ---Swears constantly, impulse control issues, wants to be a jet fighter. That seals it. May is clearly my spirit animal.
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can we share? i love adorably belligerent characters
rschill:
--- Quote from: LTK on 31 Jul 2013, 16:29 ---
--- 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.
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The Singularity happened a year or less ago in the QC universe. Besides, we don't quite know what kind of processing power they have access to and how much of that is just going to be used up maintaining a persistent and conscious personality.
Method of Madness:
I wonder what makes robot jail so awful.
Loki:
There was something about processing power and speed relative to a human in the long conversation between Emily and Momo, but I cannot find it right now.
Warning: someone posted while you were typing. They are probably a speedy AI.
Re robot jail awfulness: Dale is bluffing on having heard about how awful it is to coax more out of her, right?
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