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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Akima on 10 Jan 2017, 04:11 ---One of the reasons I've always found the Terminator movies a little unsatisfying is the idea that a truly super-intelligent AI would need to resort to anything as crude as nuclear war.
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Why so? Crude methods have the advantage of being simple solutions. They have fewer moving parts, and fewer things can go wrong as a consequence. And when T1 and T2 movies were out, there was no omnipresent connection of everything up to and including individual light bulbs to computer systems. Nuclear arsenals would be, at the time, one of the major ways an AI with limited access to meatspace could do a lot of damage, without an intricate plan that might fail at several stages.
brasca:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 09 Jan 2017, 20:21 ---
--- Quote from: killien on 09 Jan 2017, 20:19 ---I really hope that Bubbles doesn't make a deal with Mr/Ms Morden
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What *do* you want?
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I think we know what they want, Bubbles memories, but why? This may go beyond post traumatic stress from losing her comrades. She may have learned something about AIs and humanity that shook her to the core.
Bubbles next question should be who are you because seriously we're just coming up with all kinds of names for Proto Gavia until we do.
JJCalem:
Puissant? Don't think I have heard that word before...
--- Quote ---puissant
adjective
archaic, literary
Having great power or influence
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Cool, learned a new word today!
USS Martenclaire:
A faustian pact to escape a previous faustian pact? How could it possibly go wrong?
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: Shjade on 10 Jan 2017, 03:47 ---
A couple of people have brought this up. I don't see it: the kind of entity they were talking about there is so far removed from interactions as petty as one individual blackmailing another with memory access that I can't fathom a motive for one to get involved, much less for its involvement to be this directly provocative and, well, human in form. (Right down to claiming a "sentimental streak." How often has that not been a thin excuse for ulterior motives?)
None of this reads like "transcendent tech hivemind" behavior to me.
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it's not just one individual blackmailing another---it's another AI's brain being interfered with to an unacceptable (to them) degree ("the whole 'sanctity of mind' thing"). They may consider that the equivalent of child abuse. And vigilante action against that particular crime can be pretty extreme.
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