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WCDT Strips 3426-3430 (27 February - 3 March 2017)
Case:
One Orbital Lawyer Strike for the officer with the broken social interaction module ... !
Y:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 27 Feb 2017, 06:21 ---Given that tea is legal for humans, the default assumption is that it'd be legal for AIs.
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Depends on what's in the tea. Suppose cats become more sentient, and one would serve catnip tea. It might be illegal to serve to cats as they would observe the effects, but would be fine to humans. Or at least it would mean that cats can't drive afterwards.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 27 Feb 2017, 06:21 ---Given that tea is legal for humans, the default assumption is that it'd be legal for AIs.
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The legality of teas and tisanes very much depends on what plants (or which fungi) they're made from.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 27 Feb 2017, 12:04 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 27 Feb 2017, 06:21 ---Given that tea is legal for humans, the default assumption is that it'd be legal for AIs.
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The legality of teas and tisanes very much depends on what plants (or which fungi) they're made from.
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Given the fact that Coffee of Doom is selling tea alongside its coffee, that tells me that, simply by applying Occam's Razor, the tea supplied is totally above board.
The problem here is that people are assuming that what Bubbles is seeing is the same as a human hallucination. However, with an AI its more like a mass spectrometer. Some sensor is detecting the particles from the tea, analysing it and interpreting that information in a unique manner. Bear in mind the man who invented AI, Hannerdad is not the most conventional of people and instead of some cold analytical printout, we see a whimsical interpretation of that information.
Case:
--- Quote from: Y on 27 Feb 2017, 09:40 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 27 Feb 2017, 06:21 ---Given that tea is legal for humans, the default assumption is that it'd be legal for AIs.
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Depends on what's in the tea. Suppose cats become more sentient, and one would serve catnip tea. It might be illegal to serve to cats as they would observe the effects, but would be fine to humans. Or at least it would mean that cats can't drive afterwards.
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Should cats ever gain sapience ('sentience' is "the ability to feel, perceive or experience subjectively" - as far as we know, cats already have that faculty), the intoxication level of our murderous sociopathic furry friends would be the least of our worries.
I like cats at least as much as the next guy (suggestive pointing @ avatar) - but methinks that one brand of weaponized self-replicating cognitive routines is more than enough for this little planet of ours, no?
(Not the least because it's pretty obvious what would happen once sapient cats inevitably arrive at the same conclusion ... "You provide-food, will-not-become food. Be good-human-friendlypliable, not plaything-preything. Petting will-commence-now. Purr! Purr!")
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