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WCDT Strips 3006-3010 (20 to 24 July 2015)

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BenRG:
I wonder if the AI civil rights laws were hurriedly drafted in the aftermath of the AIs passing every known independent sapience test and were drafted without reference to the AIs themselves or even to the scientists and engineers who created them. Congress wanted legal protections in place immediately to stem destructive outbursts from xenophobic groups and, generally, they've worked well. However, issues with the definition of what classes an 'AI' in legal terms means that some laws fail to recognise just how difficult it is to kill them and the mind/body separation inherent in their nature.

Like all legislation, amending them to properly reflect reality is now bogged down in innumerable committees with poisonous whispers from pressure groups and lobbyists further muddying the waters.

It might be interesting if other parts of this necessarily hurried legislation may also be empowering criminal activity and criminalising otherwise-harmless activity.

Is it cold in here?:
That's a good point about the laws likely being in flux. The world works that way.

Another possibility is that it's one of those laws passed for no better reason than that the activity squicks people.

One of the richest people in the QC world is Station. He could run a charity for destitute AIs out of his own, uh, pocket even if nobody else was willing to help.

katsmeat:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 22 Jul 2015, 08:22 ---Laws are made by politicians. Politicians often aren't the most knowledgeable people about the subjects they legislate, and at times make laws based upon prejudice rather than reasoned thought. Thus we often wind up with laws that are contradictory or downright nonsensical.

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I suppose it's like Adultery and fornication being still illegal in South Carolina -  http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t16c015.php

Given how easy it was for Faye to find the place,  the police could easily do so if they wanted to.  Either they don't care or we'll be seeing Faye getting caught up in a bust, and Marten will be bailing her out of jail.

Tova:

--- Quote from: katsmeat on 22 Jul 2015, 02:52 ---Saying that, she called it fighting for sport, a misnomer I think. For the AIs doing it it's actually fighting as a job and that's a big difference.  Fighting as a job when you would rather not, but have few or no other options must be all kinds of a shitty situation to be in.

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There are professional sports, so I don't see the difference. Sport, job, whatever... fighting when you'd rather not sounds shitty.

GIven that it's illegal, there must presumably be some unsavory aspect to it... whether we get to see it remains to be seen.

Kugai:

--- Quote from: DonInKansas on 21 Jul 2015, 21:11 ---I was unaware Faye wanted to be the chick from Total Recall.

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I was thinking more along the lines of Eccentrica Galumbits


And I wonder if those Harddrives are MilSpec

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