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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Aug 2017, 07:07 ---Speaking of Corpse Witch, can people in Robot Jail have visitors? There might be some people she hasn't alienated and there's also a thing where faith-based groups visit prisons. It could be interesting but perhaps it's better writing to leave Robot Jail to our imagination.
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The question is, is Robot Jail a physical location with cells and the like, or is it closer to a server where the offending AIs are ported?
Method of Madness:
...maybe both? Getting uploaded to the server could be their version of solitary.
Gyrre:
Hmmm... What if Corpsewitch is there as a "volunteer" as part of a mandatory community service thing as part of her punishment?
zisraelsen:
As cynical as it sounds, I imagine it's a server because that would be way cheaper than supplying electricity, repair, and replacement for a bunch of chassis (chassises?) And supplying chassis for convicted AI that dont have one. Also, I got the impression may only received a chassis AFTER her release, though I don't think she ever explicitly says as much.
TheEvilDog:
Pretty much what Zisraelsen said.
It would come down to cost, even for this post-Singularity QC world.
It would be cheaper to have an off the grid server somewhere secure, port the offending AI to the server and let them serve out their sentence there, than to provide services for their chassis (singular and plural) and to imprison them. Plus how could you contain a chassis that would have above-human strength in a physical manner? How cash intensive would that be? The simplest solution would just be deprive an offending AI of their freedom to move, to take away their bodies and reduce them to a program. That would be the deterrent of Robot Jail.
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