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WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)
Is it cold in here?:
For all who need it:
katsmeat:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 07 Apr 2016, 00:23 ---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?
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Presumably for somebody else to copy an AI, it goes without saying their consent would be required. How often this is given, and if there are AIs who actively want to be copied is something unexplored.
Saying that, when AI's move between chassies, they are effectively being copied. We're well into the realm of the Transporter Paradox with this one. Was the original Momo effectively just copied and erased when she got a new chassis?
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: katsmeat on 09 Apr 2016, 06:24 ---
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 07 Apr 2016, 00:23 ---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?
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Presumably for somebody else to copy an AI, it goes without saying their consent would be required. How often this is given, and if there are AIs who actively want to be copied is something unexplored.
Saying that, when AI's move between chassies, they are effectively being copied. We're well into the realm of the Transporter Paradox with this one. Was the original Momo effectively just copied and erased when she got a new chassis?
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Interesting question...and what if the original decided she didn't want to be erased?
There's an SF short story called "Think Like a Dinosaur" in which emotionless reptilian aliens are abut to give us access to the universe by way of their version of "transporter" technology in which someone steps into the booth on one end, the button is pushed, and an exact duplicate is created on the other end light years away--after which another button is pushed and the original is vaporized. In one instance, however, the human operator doesn't receive confirmation of the reception on the other end and lets the original out of the booth. After some time passes, they finally do get confirmation and he's ordered to kill the original by the reptiles...but he's fallen in love with her in the meantime.
mad hands murphy:
really good comic, jeph jaques
katsmeat:
--- Quote from: WareWolf on 09 Apr 2016, 08:44 ---Interesting question...and what if the original decided she didn't want to be erased?
There's an SF short story called "Think Like a Dinosaur" in which emotionless reptilian aliens are abut to give us access to the universe by way of their version of "transporter" technology in which someone steps into the booth on one end, the button is pushed, and an exact duplicate is created on the other end light years away--after which another button is pushed and the original is vaporized. In one instance, however, the human operator doesn't receive confirmation of the reception on the other end and lets the original out of the booth. After some time passes, they finally do get confirmation and he's ordered to kill the original by the reptiles...but he's fallen in love with her in the meantime.
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It's not a new idea - CGP Gray covered it in the usual amazing manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI&nohtml5=False
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