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WCDT: 2510-2514 (August 12-16, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
FuryoftheStars:
--- Quote from: Kisai on 14 Aug 2013, 20:52 ---I think this story line probably brought some new readers... if anything to learn more about the AI's. I actually read QC from beginning to end a week ago, and speculated what could happen to "May"
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It may have indeed, although personally I think it was just chance for myself. I followed a link from someone's comment on a different comic a couple weeks ago to find this one and read up through. Only found the forums last week and lurked a bit.
--- Quote from: Kisai on 14 Aug 2013, 20:52 ---What Momo suggested was ejecting the storage medium prematurely (so the hibernate image is no longer present) and destroying it. Therefor "May" would either be stuck permanently as the companion AI until another storage medium becomes available, or until "set free" and having to find a platform that "May" can afford.
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I agree with everything you say (and in fact, I think you conveyed the idea loads better than I ever could), but I think there is also a third possibility, here. More than likely, May's output is merely being streamed to Dale's glasses, and likewise anything that happens (input) is being streamed back to her. Thus, ejecting the HD would cut her off completely and ultimately result in death if destroyed (assuming the Robot Jail doesn't keep automated backups... which I'm sure they probably do).
The reason I suspect her "consciousness" is merely being streamed to Dale is because if she were actually uploaded to the glasses, it would be a security risk of her being able to find a way to download back off and onto something else. Also, these two strips:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2499
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2500
The impression I got from these two strips is that she was merely "cut off" from Dale, not actually shutdown or anything.
Loki:
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 14 Aug 2013, 23:52 ---Marigold, you should not be scared to talk to boys. You have touched a wiener--you know the male weakness!
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Nuhuh. That's a male weakness.
Welcome, new people!
cesium133:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 15 Aug 2013, 03:25 ---
--- Quote from: Luneward on 15 Aug 2013, 00:49 ---You essentially have a brain that only has short term memory, and as soon as it needs anything... boom. General Protection Fault.
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For what it's worth, a General Protection Fault occurs when a program accesses RAM in a way that it's not supposed to.
This would be a disk error.
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If there's an AI military in QC-world, would its commanding officers be General Protection Fault and Colonel Panic? :psyduck:
ankhtahr:
Dude I know about General Failure and Major Mistake, but Colonol Panic is so absolutely hilarious!
cesium133:
I just tried Googling it and it autocorrected it to "Kernel Panic." Google, you're no fun. :roll:
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