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WCDT Strips 3176 to 3180 (14 - 18 March 2016)

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comicalArchitect:

--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 14 Mar 2016, 07:56 ---Part of their friendship is probably proximity and a lack of other AI friends. With Dale and Marigold dating, they probably see each other fairly often. And also going to the same support group. But other than that... May doesn't have many friends in the first place, and Momo doesn't have many AI friends that we've seen. Pintsize really irritates her it seems, and Winslow for a lack of a better term seems to be of a more primitive generator of AI, or so he seems. I doubt Momo feels much in common with either of them.
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Momo hung out with Pintsize and Winslow before Marigold's introduction, and has explicitly referred to Pintsize as her friend.

Neko_Ali:
That was also before her chassis switch. Since then she hasn't been around them very much, spending more of her time with the library crew when she's not with Marigold. And now with May.

chaospersonified:

--- Quote from: Tova on 14 Mar 2016, 13:51 ---You might want to ask one of the not-insignificant number of people who refuse medication.

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Why ask one. I am one.

For years, I refused mood-stabilizing medication. I wasn't bipolar, I just feel things. Type II bipolar, as opposed to the stereotyped version, Type I, works with longer, less-intense levels of depression and mania, and I find it possible to handle the depression while harnessing the manic stretches. I still only take my mood stabilizers occasionally, but that's a matter of recognizing situations where I need the help. This is why I suggested that the patch could be programmed to a specific level of efficiency.

The argument I made about this being a matter of programs, not biological brain systems is that it would be a matter of allowing certain aspects of the system to still function as they did before while changing the malfunctioning bits. There could be as many exceptions applied to the patch as the AI wishes there to be, and the patch would only be applied to specific areas of the AI's personality. A common complaint with people who start taking psych medication is that it changes larger parts of the personality, but a world that has created artificial intelligence could likely find ways to stop that from happening INSIDE the artificial intelligence.

Neko_Ali:
So basically the AI would be trusting the content of the patch, that it would work properly with their system and not contain any undocumented features or outright malware. Even mismatched drivers can seriously alter an AIs function. In cases like that, the effects are obvious and can be fixed. How would an AI know if some sort of trigger code was planted into their programming via a patch. If it's something they volunteer for that's one thing. Though installing hidden code via a voluntary behavior alteration patch is still a scummy thing to do. It becomes unconscionable when it is a mandatory install because that's your sentence. Accepting punishment for committing crimes is one thing. Having your personality re-written by legal force, even if nothing hidden was added, is outright horrifying.

Saral:
I think Momo and May are friends because Momo is a kind person who likes looking after people, wheareas while crude, and impulsive May will push Momo beyond her comfort zonebut not her actual boundaries. Each gets something from another. THis is someone simplistic because there are other reasons.

As for software patches, Any suffeciently complex system has problems altering onlty one thing at a time, and even if altering the blocks is easy, then end result in an inteligent being may not be quite what is expected.

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