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WCDT Strips 3391-3395 (9th to 13th January 2017)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Jan 2017, 00:28 ---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.
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That's a good point I had forgotten. Perhaps I was thinking too much about the computers of today, rather than self-aware AI people.
JimC:
--- Quote from: Celly on 13 Jan 2017, 21:46 ---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?
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One shouldn't forget real life predictions are fiction too.
As for fight clubs and the like, slavemasters keep slaves and farm animals fed and watered if economically practical so long as they are assets, but often see no reason not to let free men and wild animals starve.
Celly:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 13 Jan 2017, 22:42 ---
--- 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.
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My point is that the Singularity did not confer the god status as predicted in the real world. It was limited somehow. There shouldn't be, for example, money, in the common conception of "post-Singularity" - even in the best case scenario where AI doesn't try to kill us, they've solved resource problems for us.
My point that AI is not godlike in the QC universe was specifically a counterpoint to one guy who thought out new friend Legion would be godlike (assuming my Grey Goo hypothesis is correct)
blt:
As much as I do also sort of subscribe to the Faye/Bubbles ship, I really see this more as the leadership I'd expect from Bubs. Identifying the least bad option in a bad situation, knowing when a fast choice is required, and still taking care of those around her. #fave.
Case:
--- Quote from: Celly on 13 Jan 2017, 17:30 ---I am calling them Legion and my theory is that they are Grey Goo.
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Nanotbots exist only in SF-lit, and there, Grey Goo is the nanotech equivalent of cancer ... Talked to a tumor lately?
(click to show/hide)Nanobots are a pet peeve of mine ... Mostly because, despite the claims of feverish- and well-sponsored research, it's so hard to meet anybody working on them even theoretically. I work as a postdoctoral research fellow in theoretical solid state physics - that'd be the physics part of what is popularly called 'nanotech'. Let's just say I cannot confirm that researching nanobots is a 'hot topic' :laugh:
If it were, it would show up in the condensed-matter section of the archive-server arXiv.org, where nearly all physicist upload the pre-print versions of their papers (mostly in order to document their claim to a specific result in a timely manner).
-> Google-search for "condmat, nanobots" gives 518 hits (and many aren't even on condmat). Google-search for "condmat, topological insulators" (one of the currently hot topics in solid state physics) gives 62.800 ...
And lastly, how would nanobots - structures whose dimensions are measured in a millionth of a millimetre: roughly a hundreth of the avg. diameter of a capillary - manage migrate from the contact point at Fayes forehead to every relevant motoneuronal pathway in a matter of seconds?
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