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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
Celly:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 13 Jan 2017, 20:40 ---
--- Quote from: Celly on 13 Jan 2017, 17:30 ---I am calling them Legion and my theory is that they are Grey Goo.
They've been in hiding because people would freak out and probably blow an EMP, since they are literally (in this form at least) a walking end-of-the-world scenario - but they aren't motivated to wipe out the world, by whatever lucky happenstance.
I signed up for these forums because you all are terrible at theory crafting.
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Er.. a hivemind that clueful, one of the first things they do is to port onto EMP resistant hardware/wetware. Good idea anyway to have lithophile backups as well in case of gamma ray bursters, to reboot life in a reasonable time, millions not billions of years. Go Arrhenious ( see Arrhenius) too.
See Brin's Existence. Or Vinge's Fire on the Deep for a Rocco Basilisk.
I feel that talking about organised crime or even world wars when dealing with such entities is at best like toddlers discussing how to unwrap a chocolate bar during a meeting of nuclear physicists, and worrying that one might snatch their rattle away.
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It's a good point, to which I say "maybe." The AI don't seem as powerful as some of the real-life predictions we have for a post-singularity world. Why do AI's have human level intelligence and underground fight clubs, if we've passed the singularity?
There is also the assumption that EMP-resistant hardware is even possible and within the capabilities for Legion to invent it.
I think Legion is smarter than most AI by at least an order of magnitude, but the capabilities are by no means infinite for AI in this universe. Coupled with the assumption that Station is keeping Legion in check. In fact, Orbital Railgun Justice is probably a better rationale for good behavior than is an EMP.
de_la_Nae:
--- Quote from: Celly on 13 Jan 2017, 21:46 ---Why do AI's have ... underground fight clubs, if we've passed the singularity?
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There's no reason to think, in the expanse of the post-Singularity mind, that some of them wouldn't find fighting to be fun.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 13 Jan 2017, 22:34 ---
--- Quote from: Celly on 13 Jan 2017, 21:46 ---Why do AI's have ... underground fight clubs, if we've passed the singularity?
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There's no reason to think, in the expanse of the post-Singularity mind, that some of them wouldn't find fighting to be fun.
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Why do we humans have fight clubs? Because its fun for some people and for others, its a way to make a lot of money very quickly.
Despite the fact that the Singularity has occurred in the QC-verse, its quite obvious that the world is not in the best state. There's some degree of discrimination towards AI, both from within and without the community. Unless you're an AnthroPC and paired with a human, I would imagine that being an AI in the world is quite difficult. I mean, look at May and Bubbles. May couldn't even get basic healthcare from the government when her chassis began to fall apart and had to go to an illegal repair shop for help. Bubbles is ostracised by both the human and AI communities for choosing to serve in the military. Neither of them have many options.
The Singularity may have happened, but human nature isn't so easily changed. And we know that AI are made in humanity's image.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Celly on 13 Jan 2017, 21:46 ---Why do AI's have human level intelligence and underground fight clubs, if we've passed the singularity?
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You're thinking of "utopia."
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Akima on 13 Jan 2017, 14:11 ---Given that Bubbles was designed to be a member of a combat team
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I had come away with a different impression after her conversation with Momo about choosing the military as a career. It sounded like she was a run-of-the-mill AI who thought she should serve her country.
If someone in the QC world is designing people with personality traits to adapt them to being members of a combat team then the ethical issues are intense.
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