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WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
Radium_Coyote:
The name "Corpse Witch" takes on some new meaning.
mvdwege:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 20 Dec 2016, 20:54 ---[Bubbles] has taken it on faith that a key even exists, and Corpse Witch does not inspire faith.
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See, I disagree with that assessment: Corpse Witch, like most of those in organised crime, is a businesswoman first and foremost. That her business is illegal does not mean that she shouldn't be trustworthy when it comes to her word; especially in a business that survives on word of mouth, being known to keep your word is an asset.
Her deals may come with a different sort of small print than regular ones, and you probably do not want to know how she deals with defaulters, but given her line of work I think we can assume that she will indeed have an encryption key for Bubbles' memories.
BenRG:
Yeah, this is pretty much the scenario that I imagined when Corpse Witch first mentioned the encryption key. Yes, it is effectively slavery through blackmail which, IRL, is disturbingly common, even in first world countries. There just seems to be some people who regard the amount of effort required to coerce unpaid service to be worth the feeling of superiority that comes from having slaves.
FWIW, I don't think that it is possible to attempt to forcibly extract the key from Corpse Witch in any way without her deleting. She might even have a 'dead man's switch' command set up to go at a moment's notice (based on her awareness of how volatile Bubbles can be sometimes). The only practical option would be to surprise and disable her and then access her memory in a useful way for as long as it takes to find the key without her regaining consciousness. It strikes me as that would be a difficult task, especially as a being like her has to have a few contingencies in place to protect herself and the information she wishes to keep secret.
No, my idea is that the point will come where Bubbles will take permanently losing those memories as the price she has to pay and pays it because the alternative just simply isn't tolerable anymore. Sometimes, to lose the chains, you have to lose other things too. Freedom always brings with it a price. I suspect that Corpse Witch would be furious at having misread to what lengths Bubbles was willing to go to and will bitterly blame Faye for this defeat.
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 20 Dec 2016, 18:55 ---Yes, but the question is, do you think she has any chance of being treated better by the "legitimate" authorities?
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Probably not although Bubbles might be allowed to walk without being prosecuted herself depending on how big a fish she helps them land.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Dec 2016, 20:11 ---Didn't Bubbles have therapy in the past? The "better minds than yours have tried" line made it sound that way.
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I suspect that she got a lot of very conditional 'help' from the self-righteous in the AI community. Basically, they encouraged her to publicly recant and repent, telling her that making a show of admitting that she was wrong and that no-one should follow her path would make her feel better.
MrNumbers:
Man, how embarassing would it be if it turned out the encryption key just turned out to be "Rot13"
Akima:
It's no surprise, but we finally have confirmation that Corpse Witch is a bad robot. Faye's response is the right immediate response, but what is the next step?
--- Quote from: BenRG on 20 Dec 2016, 23:38 ---FWIW, I don't think that it is possible to attempt to forcibly extract the key from Corpse Witch in any way without her deleting.
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That would depend what you mean by "forcibly". Some form of blackmail, or similar leverage, would work, I think.
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