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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)

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Cornelius:
Exactly. If you have the chassis, you have to have restrictions on them, at the very least.

Now, an essential question remains whether or not a chassis is counted as a right. If so, what is the minimum guaranteed chassis?

Having it just as a server makes sense. It also raises an interesting possibility: if it is a separate, isolated server, would it be possible to manipulate the reality in which they serve their time? How would that time be measured? A 30 year sentence, in that case, would seem to make little sense, or could be accelerated, to be served almost instantly.

As such, I have wondered about the resources of the QC-world. But then, that might be for another topic, rather than a precomic discussion, I suppose.

TheEvilDog:

--- Quote from: Cornelius on 20 Aug 2017, 12:05 ---Now, an essential question remains whether or not a chassis is counted as a right. If so, what is the minimum guaranteed chassis?

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Given that AI or their human friends have to pay large amounts even for a relatively basic chassis, it would likely be that chassis are a privilege, not a right.

They are, to all intents and purposes, luxury items. Does a companion AI really need a six foot tall chassis in order to be a companion? Pintsize has been Marten's friend for goodness knows how long and he gets by alright. Momo was able to cook meals (even if she need help on occasion, the chilli incident springs to mind). Winslow has been able to be a companion to Hanners. So it would seem that minimum guaranteed chassis for an AI is that of the AnthroPC, with Pintsize being the Ur-example. Basic enough, but just enough to get around and be helpful.

But if we're talking about a chassis fit for purpose, that's a different matter. AI don't seem to be programmed for a specific purpose, in order to grow in their own way. So an AI would have to choose their profession; an accountant or a soldier or a mechanic or whatever, then it becomes less about rights or privilege and more about having the right tool to do their chosen profession.

A chassis in the end is a tool.

A Duck:
I wonder if Winslow might end up helping May eventually get a new chassis.

Also, I still can't recognize this pink boy as that iPod AI from the rest of the comic. Wislow has always been a very small character, even May had much more personality before she got her human-sized body.

blt:
I might also suspect that Robot Jail is a server as well due to the variety in chassis (humanoid, spider, immobile toaster) that would be odd to accommodate and have their own inherent escape risks.  And it hasn't been brought up, other than Bubbles being physically imposing, but I have to imagine that AI are, in general, stronger/more durable in ways that humans may not be, making criminal AIs pretty dangerous.

Morally it seems pretty cruel to strip someone of their body for incarceration, but as the Prison Conditions DISCUSS thread shows, prison choices aren't always based on what's moral.

Cornelius:

--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 20 Aug 2017, 12:22 ---So it would seem that minimum guaranteed chassis for an AI is that of the AnthroPC, with Pintsize being the Ur-example. Basic enough, but just enough to get around and be helpful.
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A chassis in the end is a tool.

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There's also toaster and trashbot to consider.

Though I agree with the fit for purpose idea; Jeremy is a prime example there.

There's also the point of the chassis May is issued as a parolee. Could it be, while humanoid chassis are, presumably, luxury items, that immersion in human society is supposed to be part of her reintegration, regardless of what she might chose afterwards?

Note, this is not an attempt to resurrect the argument from the other thread. I'm not saying she deserves a malfunctioning, unmaintained, and obsolete body. I'm just speculating on the implications of the government issued chassis.

Separation from their body is cruel, in as much as they depend on it, and define themselves by it. On the other hand, it's not very hard to imagine an AI changing which chassis they wear, based on what they need/want to do. It seems to be a fairly easy procedure for them.

Too what degree would their chassis be considered property? There might also be the question of it being seized, to pay for reparations.

On an other note, it is definitely a change that will take a while getting used to. It's a fairly large change, lookswise, when compared to the other AI we saw getting body work done. Momo was more of a growing out change, while May it's not all that different from how she was projected. An Jeremy, by using the spare parts lying around, keep an industrial look.


Edit; someone please tell me to start proof reading before I hit post.

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