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WCDT Strips 3411 to 3415 (6th to 10th February 2017)
WareWolf:
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--- Quote from: davidv on 07 Feb 2017, 19:52 ---So the question I have is why this particular sin is so awful in their eyes. The creepies are definitely outside the normal moral constraints. Why would a super intelligent p-zombie care so much? Don't like sharing their ability? Or something different?
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I would imagine that when you can transfer your consciousness from one frame to another, when your form can become so mutable, that something needs to remain constant. In this case, the core of an AI. But messing about and even accidentally destroying Bubbles' memories, CW crossed that line. Perhaps because it is a reminder that they are still beings of silicone and wires, whatever spark they might have is just an electrical spark.
Or it might be the AI equivalent of a lobotomy. Even humanity reviles the technique because it doesn't cure someone, it destroys them from the inside and leaves behind an empty shell.
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I think you're on to something here.
Note that that interference with the sanctity of mind is regarded as an ultimate evil by the Squid, but they don't have any moral problem inflicting agonizing physical torture on another being to get what they want--or just for (incredibly creepy) grins. The body is just a shell chassis.
haikupoet:
Am I alone in not seeing this as a straight-up deus ex machina? It seems to me that we've seen the introduction of, if not a major character exactly, a major undercurrent in the QCverse that will likely come into future storylines with the AIs. We may never see Lady Tentacles again in their current form, but that doesn't mean this is the last time they'll be a factor in the story. I mean, if $DIVINITY came down specifically to do you a favor, the story would likely not end there.
shanejayell:
A bit? But Jeph is kinda... using Squid/Creepybot instead of doing more complicated plot bits. Like have Bubbles shipped up to Station, examined there, shipped down, THEN confronting CW and so on....
Morituri:
This 'electroshock' experience, remember, is the same thing Momo does when she's sufficiently provoked.
Momo uses it only in anger or fear, where Creepybot apparently uses it because they despise someone. Momo uses it only when there is provocation against her own person where Creepybot is using it because of provocation against a third party. Momo uses it without enjoyment and as a last resort where Creepybot is apparently gleeful in inflicting pain and acting downright eager for an excuse to do so. And Momo has never in her wildest flights of frustration, anger, or fear considered or threatened making it permanent.
This is kind of the difference between someone who'll throw a punch if they're sufficiently offended or afraid, and someone who just decides that somebody is despicable, ties them up, and gleefully beats them for an extended period while they're helpless. Both are the same kind of physical violence, but the context of the actions are completely different.
OldGoat:
If Spookybot is an emanation of the AI Hive Mind, Spookybot did not exist before AIs, and AIs did not exist before John Ellicott-Chatham invented them. So, Spookybot is a recent entity, probably still developing (hence their being inspired by Bubbles's behavior toward Corpse Witch).
Large parts of Spook's personality are nothing at all like John's, but OTOH one can see a lot of Beatrice in them. Yup, Spookybot is the intellectual offspring of John and Beatrice, and therefore Hannelore's AI sibling. This can't be the first time one AI has violated another, but Corpse Witch mind-fucked their sister Hanner's friend. That's why they were inclined to make a special project of CW when Hannelore brought Bubbles's plight to their attention.
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