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WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
HoneyBadger:
But it does change your central point, Tova, because confidence, assumptions, and knowledge are all different. Knowledge, true knowledge, cannot be so easily shaken. Confidence and assumption can relatively easily be shaken by contradictory data. That is why, when I was making my earlier argument I specifically said that Bubbles only needed to "create a sufficient level of uncertainty" in Corpse Witch. It is also why I took particular issue with your use of the term 'knowledge'. If it is genuine knowledge then it precludes uncertainty, but neither confidence nor an assumption can preclude uncertainty. Therefore, the point that Corpse Witch would not know is crucially important, because it is that exact point which allows the necessary space for Bubbles to create the required uncertainty by the process of wholesale destruction of Corpse Witch's chassis.
jheartney:
One other possibility is that CW could have set up other sorts of posthumous revenge. Perhaps another enforcer AI to come kill people Bubbles cares about (Faye, the COD gang) in the event that CW does not check in at agreed intervals.
That would be pretty dark.
theMarc:
--- Quote from: HoneyBadger on 23 Dec 2016, 05:43 ---But it does change your central point, Tova, because confidence, assumptions, and knowledge are all different. Knowledge, true knowledge, cannot be so easily shaken. Confidence and assumption can relatively easily be shaken by contradictory data. That is why, when I was making my earlier argument I specifically said that Bubbles only needed to "create a sufficient level of uncertainty" in Corpse Witch. It is also why I took particular issue with your use of the term 'knowledge'. If it is genuine knowledge then it precludes uncertainty, but neither confidence nor an assumption can preclude uncertainty. Therefore, the point that Corpse Witch would not know is crucially important, because it is that exact point which allows the necessary space for Bubbles to create the required uncertainty by the process of wholesale destruction of Corpse Witch's chassis.
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Again, you're assuming that Corpse Witch is acting with a minimum amount of rationality. As I said before, that's a flawed assumption. Yes, CW doesn't know how Bubbles will act. But CW thinks she knows.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: brasca on 22 Dec 2016, 22:07 ---That's still too easy and it also means dealing with someone who in my opinion is worse than Corpse Witch. It may also put Hannelore in a spot where her mother will help in this matter, but then she'll want something from her. Perhaps she thinks it's time for her to stop wasting her life working in a coffee shop and take her place within her empire. Removing Corpse Witch from the picture is not worth it if they owe Beatrice Chatham a favor.
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Well, a deal with the proverbial devil would most certainly remove this from the "too easy", but I share your doubts. Summoning Cthulhu to deal with a mere ghoul (something that Hanners, along with Emily is probably capable of) would create more problems than it'd solve. Probably why Faye didn't mention that option (although it *would* be satisfying to see the greater evil squash the lesser one like a bug).
themacnut:
--- Quote from: brasca on 22 Dec 2016, 22:07 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 22 Dec 2016, 16:55 ---Hannerdad is not the parent they should be thinking of in the first place. Now, the Bond-villain mother probably has ways of making even an AI comply with her whims. That is, of course, assuming that Faye can remain on the wagon whilst feeding Ms. Chatham the required martinis.
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That's still too easy and it also means dealing with someone who in my opinion is worse than Corpse Witch. It may also put Hannelore in a spot where her mother will help in this matter, but then she'll want something from her. Perhaps she thinks it's time for her to stop wasting her life working in a coffee shop and take her place within her empire. Removing Corpse Witch from the picture is not worth it if they owe Beatrice Chatham a favor.
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Worse, Ms Chatham may decide she likes having her own military AI on call for any "wetwork". Bubbles may end up recalling her years under Corpse Witch's thumb with fondness after a few of those "errands".
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