Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)
QuestionableIntentions:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 06 Apr 2016, 23:59 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 06 Apr 2016, 23:23 ---If Bubbles hurts Faye she may, like Alice, hate herself for it for five thousand years.
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Which brings us to something I have been wondering...
Are the AIs of QCverse immortal? And to what extent (if any) that explains the attitudes of meatbag teens and others?
I think The Bicentennial Man is close to the mark (I caught something in my eye at the end). Not entirely relevant here, because you don't need to treat robots as humans to grant them equal rights, but not irrelevant at an emotional level either.
Apologies if this has been discussed to death elsewhere in the forum.
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They are software. As long as there is hardware that can run them, they are immortal.
We don't know how human immortality comes along in the QC verse, but I doubt it's much of a problem considering the tech and minds they already have available.
Pilchard123:
Are they solely software, or is there some hardware part of them? If there isn't a hardware restriction, then what's to stop a single AI being copied/copying itself everywhere?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: QuestionableIntentions on 07 Apr 2016, 00:16 ---They are software. As long as there is hardware that can run them, they are immortal.
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I'm not sure that follows; it is possible that learning software becomes more and more messed up with time (even simple software like Windows does, after all), and this deterioration may not be reversible without losing the personality.
Storel:
I believe there was a fairly early strip where Marten explicitly says that Pintsize could effectively live forever by uploading himself into new hardware periodically. Can't find it, though, sorry. My archive-fu is weak tonight.
JimC:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 06 Apr 2016, 15:03 ---Who says there'd be riots?
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Historically enough inequality has always led to riots/revolution. I suppose if one is feeling sufficiently dystopic then a proposition could be made for industrial genocide of the mass population by slave AIs (jAInisarries?), leaving only the executive class alive. Not sure I'd want to read that web comic though.
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