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WCDT Strips 3366-3370 (5th-9th December 2016)
USS Martenclaire:
Hmmmm. We know that a difficult memory is locked away in Bubbles head....but while it might be a traumatic memory, it might also be a memory of something shameful she did. Maybe she abandoned her comrades to die or something like that?
bhtooefr:
Also, quite frankly, Bubbles has leverage over Corpse Witch, now, by having demonstrated the ability and willingness to kill her.
The tactic that CW has been using is, essentially, "stay with me or you won't get the encryption key". The thing with that, there's no way to win that by playing by CW's game - stay, CW will never give it to her because it's leverage. Leave, CW won't give it to her. Bubbles cannot win (clearly Bubbles wants the key).
Threaten to kill CW, on the other hand, and then Bubbles has an in - "give me the key, or you die". It's an ugly, ugly route, but she's already gone down it now - she literally just threatened CW's life. And, the thing is, if CW doesn't give up the key under that kind of threat? Bubbles isn't getting it under any circumstances anyway.
JimC:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 09 Dec 2016, 02:04 ---anthrophobic
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[pedant]It would be anthropophobic. Anthrophobic doesn't really work. Anthophobic would be fear/dislike of the colour yellow and anthraphobic fear/dislike of coal.[/pedant]
But yes, I agree with you, CW now clearly very anthropophobic which sheds some light on past attitudes I think.
brasca:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 09 Dec 2016, 03:45 ---Also, quite frankly, Bubbles has leverage over Corpse Witch, now, by having demonstrated the ability and willingness to kill her.
The tactic that CW has been using is, essentially, "stay with me or you won't get the encryption key". The thing with that, there's no way to win that by playing by CW's game - stay, CW will never give it to her because it's leverage. Leave, CW won't give it to her. Bubbles cannot win (clearly Bubbles wants the key).
Threaten to kill CW, on the other hand, and then Bubbles has an in - "give me the key, or you die". It's an ugly, ugly route, but she's already gone down it now - she literally just threatened CW's life. And, the thing is, if CW doesn't give up the key under that kind of threat? Bubbles isn't getting it under any circumstances anyway.
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Perhaps, but if Corpse Witch suspects that Bubbles might go so far as to kill her she could warn that she has plenty of associates who could unlock those memories if she met an untimely end. Moreover, unless Bubbles had a justifiable reason for killing her she'd be sent to robot prison for murder so she'd be both incarcerated and tormented by memories that are so bad she wants them locked away.
blt:
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--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 09 Dec 2016, 01:49 ---Those last two panels - is that a yes or a no, do you reckon?
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Whatever it is, that smug smile is gone from CW's face. She's no longer confident that she's in control, no longer sure how things will go.
This makes me happy.
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I don't know... that final panel looks like a tiny smug smile to me. She definitely thinks she's still winning.
The idea that you can forcibly encrypt away AI memories is strange though. Maybe it can only be done by the AI themselves and then the key given away, but if not it's only a short hop from that to memory stealing/modifying AI personalities which seems off given how we understand how AI works in this universe.
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