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WCDT: 2500-2504 (29 July- August 2, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 29 Jul 2013, 21:40 ---No need to quote big images like that, Lee.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 29 Jul 2013, 21:29 ---Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?
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Makes sense, because the alternative (government-enforced brainwashing of supposedly "equal" citizens) is rather.. unpleasant.
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Heinlein explored the question of what to do if you can reliably change people's psychology. Criminals in that world had a free choice of reprogramming or exile.
T:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 29 Jul 2013, 21:40 ---No need to quote big images like that, Lee.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 29 Jul 2013, 21:29 ---Jeph said, I believe on Tumblr, that AIs can modify their personalities with software patches. That would seem like a more reliable kind of rehabilitation than community service. Apparently AIs can choose jail instead?
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Makes sense, because the alternative (government-enforced brainwashing of supposedly "equal" citizens) is rather.. unpleasant.
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What about grave errors? Like a defective AI that is a real danger to anyone around it? Fix a bug seems much more reasonable than have to destroy it since unlike humans you could made a psychopath AI stop being a psychopath.
GarandMarine:
Heh. Poor Dale, this is shaping up to be interesting. Running theory is that Dale and May are gonna be teamed up on the regular for the foreseeable future.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Jul 2013, 17:52 ---Can't think of any "ism"s that I've liked.
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You dislike all organisms?
Method of Madness:
I suppose I didn't try very hard.
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