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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: Akima on 10 Jan 2017, 04:11 ---Robo-persons-of-ambiguous-gender-presentation in Black? I certainly don't think I'd want to be anyone they'd decided was a "filthy little brainfucker". One gets the impression that the AI community polices itself fairly ruthlessly. 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.
But yes... this is in danger of introducing a Deus Ex Machina just as much as having Hanners or Station break the encryption etc.
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Is it a Deus ex Machina if the Deus creates as many problems as it solves? I see a DeM as a too-easy, glib resolution of all conflicts, not a takeoff point for new, possibly worse ones.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 10 Jan 2017, 03:46 ---They're young and powerful - station and colleagues are "less puissant elders".
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Station's a mainframe and the new ones are a cloud-connected cluster. Station doubts he can break the encryption, the new ones simply state that they will.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Jan 2017, 05:21 ---
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 10 Jan 2017, 03:46 ---They're young and powerful - station and colleagues are "less puissant elders".
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Station's a mainframe and the new ones are a cloud-connected cluster. Station doubts he can break the encryption, the new ones simply state that they will.
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Yeah, we've become accustomed to thinking of Station as the Last Word in AI, because Hanners says he is. The New AI Gods may consider him a doddering old coot who they humor.
Neko_Ali:
It's possible that it's an old school vs new school hacker kind of divide here. Just because Station and his contemporaries don't know of any of their ways to break this encryption safely doesn't mean the New Kids don't. Given that Creepy here seems certain that it's doable, it may be they already have broken that kind of encryption before. Of course, doing so may involve serious risks that Creepy isn't bothering to tell Bubbles about. Given how seriously they consider sanctity of mind though, it seems unlikely that they would not tell Bubbles about the risks. Of course, they wouldn't be the first people to use the same techniques as the people they despise without even realizing the hypocrisy. Wasn't what happened to Bubble's unit some sort of secret? Creepy certainly implies they know all about what happened... And seemed to be mocking Bubbles in a 'Oh, how sad about your poor friends dying horribly' *evil chuckle* kind of way.
Zebediah:
Let's not make the mistake of taking this person at their word. They may very well be lying about who they are, what their intentions are, and what they are capable of.
An alternative explanation: This is someone sent by Corpse Witch to tempt Bubbles into doing something rash, to see how far Bubbles will really go. If Bubbles takes the bait, Corpse Witch can then feel justified into activating the other controls she installed in Bubbles' mind while she was in there. Agent Creepypasta is simply an agent for hire who has a taste for expensive and androgynous chassis - an ordinary AI who likes to pretend to be more than they are.
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