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Neko_Ali:
I really doubt it was a counter measure or anything. The talk between Bubbles and Momo implies that AIs joining the military is not that common, and a contested subject between AI-kind. On the other hand, Hanners says there are several AI customers who visit just to sniff the tea. It is entirely possible they experience something similar visions. So it may well be something common to all AI bodies with olfactory sensors. Also the visions didn't seem disabling.. if anything it was extremely easy for Faye to interrupt Bubbles enjoyment of Unicorn Grove.

Morituri:
Yeah, if it's a countermeasure, it's not very effective. Which, IMO, lends credence to the Programmer-got-stoned-and-thought-it-would-be-clever scenario. 

Of course that opens a whole different ethical can o' worms.  Given that your code directly affects someone else's perception of reality, it would be really scummy to put something like that in there without basic things like discussion and consent.  Thinking it would be cool, or even making it enjoyable, is not enough.

Thrudd:

--- Quote from: Morituri on 10 Feb 2016, 10:24 ---Yeah, if it's a countermeasure, it's not very effective. Which, IMO, lends credence to the Programmer-got-stoned-and-thought-it-would-be-clever scenario. 

Of course that opens a whole different ethical can o' worms.  Given that your code directly affects someone else's perception of reality, it would be really scummy to put something like that in there without basic things like discussion and consent.  Thinking it would be cool, or even making it enjoyable, is not enough.

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Well since the AI does not come with built in olfactory or other senses built in on its own to begin with I think that if you are even partially correct that whatever it is is part of either the sensor package itself or, more likely in my opinion, that the driver interface has a stack overflow error somewhere.

My idea is that since smell always calls up some sort of imagery from memory for use meat machines that the AI equivalent driver does the same thing but there is an inherent error in the memory pointer when dealing with highly complex scents, which herbal infusions and really good quality teas both qualify as.

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