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WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
ZoeB:
Many ethical dilemmas here.
Also a Big Problem. One that should be kicked upstairs to the Great AIs.
CW is broken. What caused that? How do we prevent recurrence? How do we treat her as an experimental specimen, while respecting her personhood? The world and the future cannot afford the existence of CWs. Can she be rehabilitated? Testing to destruction would be just, and also the practical course, but those who fight monsters must beware they don't become monsters themselves thereby.
Robot Jail is for those who make mistakes, and can learn from it. It isn't appropriate for the AI equivalent of Charles Manson or Hannibal Lector.
CW stated that she knows worse things than Robot Jail, and has the caoacity to inflict them on others. I now believe her.
Truec:
A few people are suggesting going to Basilisk about Bubbles getting her head shrunk. You're making a big assumption that Corpse Witch's memory encryption is in any way illegal. Unethical, certainly, using it for blackmail would certainly be illegal, but the actual process? Regular humans can already legally do that do each other (well, less encryption and more screwing with the subconscious, but still). Blackmail isn't exactly the kind of thing you can prove without a paper trail, there might be very little that Roko could do here. Also, she hasn't exactly showed the greatest degree of competence so far.
--- Quote from: Scarblac on 21 Dec 2016, 01:53 ---Encrypted, so using Station is out.
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Station is, among other things, a supercomputer years, possibly decades, ahead of anything we currently have. A supercomputer years or decades ahead of anything we currently have is exactly what you'd want for trying to crack encryption. Asking Hannelore to get Station's help would be a perfectly logical thing to do.
But perfectly logical courses of action are very rarely interesting storytelling.
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 21 Dec 2016, 04:31 ---Robot Jail is for those who make mistakes, and can learn from it. It isn't appropriate for the AI equivalent of Charles Manson or Hannibal Lector.
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Corpse Witch is a creepy and manipulative gangster. We've seen nothing to indicate that she's any more of a sociopath than any other career criminal.
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Truec on 21 Dec 2016, 06:09 ---
--- Quote from: Scarblac on 21 Dec 2016, 01:53 ---Encrypted, so using Station is out.
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Station is, among other things, a supercomputer years, possibly decades, ahead of anything we currently have. A supercomputer years or decades ahead of anything we currently have is exactly what you'd want for trying to crack encryption. Asking Hannelore to get Station's help would be a perfectly logical thing to do.
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But by the same corollary the levels of encryption will be years, possibly decades, ahead of anything we currently have.
Brute forcing with orders of magnitude more power will reduce the time required by the same magnitude.
So instead of getting it solved some time past the heat death of the universe it will be only a few billion years. Add a bit more time to allow station to actually look after all the other parameters it has to as the station AI.
A viable answer for a neigh immortal intelligence but not so much so for the carbon based bags of mostly water.
Yeah, really big numbers are really big.
Mad Cat:
I know three things:
1) Faye is hugging Bubbles affectionately.
2) Bubbles' physiology is not prone to hypoxia.
3) That's just Bubbles' normal coloration.
But damn it looks like Faye is choking Bubbles out in that last panel.
gprimr1:
I see two different problems:
1.) The partition
2.) The encryption
To get the memories back, Bubbles would both need to break the encryption and repartition the drive. Station might be able to break the encryption, we don't know. There are encryption technologies today that with our current technology would take longer than the life of the sun to break, could be broken in minutes with Quantum computers.
but even if Station breaks the encryption, can it repartition the memories?
I think going to the police about this would be a horrible mistake for Faye. CW could just delete the key and done deal. I think this will be an interesting test of Faye's impulse control.
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