Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3176 to 3180 (14 - 18 March 2016)
osaka:
--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 15 Mar 2016, 07:10 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 15 Mar 2016, 06:28 ---the Fubbles repair charity.
--- End quote ---
I think I'd prefer "Fayebles"....
--- End quote ---
But that's liable to get cancelled not long before opening.
Mr. Doctor:
--- Quote from: Akima on 14 Mar 2016, 23:28 ---I suppose it's not entirely surprising that the person (yes, AIs are people), who runs an illegal operation turns out to be not very nice.
--- End quote ---
I was really rooting for her to be a cool boss who understood the tight spots others with lesser opportunities are in. But nope.
Random832:
If I were Faye (or Bubbles), I would wait to see exactly how much she takes off Faye's pay, and then turn around and file an expense report for exactly that amount in "training materials", since Bubbles' stated purpose for allowing the favor was that Faye needs training in facial myomer repair.
Morituri:
I think I agree that CW is not actually wrong in terms of what she's doing. Her resources were used without her consent, and she's entitled to recoup the cost. She's also entitled, if she decides to, to dock Faye (& Bubbles) a half-day's wages for work time spent on personal agendas. "Uncharitable" may be unkind, but it's not wrong for a business owner to be looking out for the bottom line.
That said? Intimidation and threats as an opener, as opposed to "you didn't ask permission here and I have an issue with that..." is disrespectful, aside from being uncharitable, and an employer who is disrespectful of her workforce will experience high employee turnover, as employees get fed up with her behavior and leave. It happens a lot in minimum-wage type jobs where the employees are readily replaceable with walk-ins off the street who are just a little more desperate for a paycheck. But when you treat skilled labor like that, it's an even bigger insult.
On American Law, like German, had this been a legal enterprise CW would be within her legal rights firing Faye (and Bubbles). But you'll notice she's canny enough to NOT pick on both of them at the same time, because losing both of them would jeopardize her business. It was purely her bad luck that Bubbles overheard that exchange, and now she's at risk for having *both* of them quit.
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 14 Mar 2016, 15:23 ---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.
--- End quote ---
I understand your desire, even your wish that such a thing were possible, but I strongly suspect that any consciousness - even an inorganic one - is going to be sufficiently complex that you can't simply go in and switch particular traits off and on without affecting the whole. It's a nice thought, particularly if one has experience with real medication and its raft of side effects, but I just don't think there's a completely clean and precise solution.
People are complicated. This can be a bother at times, even (especially?) when the person is us... but attempts to change that essential truth have given us some of the great horrors of society and/or the medical and psychiatric profession, and will probably continue to do so.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version