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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 20 Aug 2017, 14:29 ---Edit; someone please tell me to start proof reading before I hit post.
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Start prufreeding befour you hit poste.
;)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote ---There's also toaster and trashbot to consider.
Though I agree with the fit for purpose idea; Jeremy is a prime example there.
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When Momo was getting her new chassis, the saleswoman had previously been a forklift, then served as the AI for a nuclear submarine. So its obvious that AI aren't necessarily constrained by their choices, so its not like they're banned from changing chassis.
--- Quote ---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?
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I see May's chassis as part ankle monitor, part halfway house and part sentence. She's not getting a free ride, nor is she getting a free chassis. She's working as part of the agreement of her parole. Its crap, its falling apart and I would not be surprised if there was some sort of lock preventing her from uploading to a new chassis until her sentence was completed. Its living with Dale that is allowing her to integrate with society and to hopefully become a productive member of society.
--- Quote ---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.
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I would not be surprised in the slightest if the government got the chassis for next to nothing because they were the first generation or the test batch or even just a defective batch.
--- Quote ---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.
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Let's stop a moment and consider this - Humans are essentially a species intrinsically connected to our bodies. For all we think ourselves a reasonable intelligent species, we're still one that relies 100% on our bodies, to the point we're the slightest change to that body completely changes our quality of life. Now consider this, AIs are not human...in the sense that we understand. We might have modelled themselves on us, they are completely and utterly a species of the mind.
The loss of the body for an AI is a inconvenience at best and just plain annoying at worse. With that in mind, we can't have the exact same type of punishment for an AI that we do for a human even if the essence is still the same. We imprison people to show the consequences of their criminal action being the loss of freedom. AI are imprisoned and uploaded from their chassis to show them that their criminal actions reduces them to a lone AI in a server, unable to interact with the world. A human prisoner can still feel the breeze on their skin, so what does an AI feel?
--- Quote ---To what degree would their chassis be considered property? There might also be the question of it being seized, to pay for reparations.
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Presumably the chassis would be treated as something like a car in that there's someone's name on the paperwork, probably the human companion's.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph said AIs are the legal owners of their bodies though the nuclear submarine must have been an exception.
During May's work release Momo made it sound like Robot Jail inmates were stuck on a hard drive in a server rack. That could be why May said it was horrible.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Aug 2017, 16:38 ---During May's work release Momo made it sound like Robot Jail inmates were stuck on a hard drive in a server rack. That could be why May said it was horrible.
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Well if your wish was to fly, you'd certainly find it horrible if your wings were permanently clipped.
snufflebottoms:
I hope Winslow runs into new robots/people while volunteering and the whole May story-line is mostly dropped. I'd like to see Momo and Winslow interact more. Doesn't have to be a shippy thing though I'd be okay with that too. Just any kind of interaction. Momo is a fun character. She kind of reminds me of Hannelore in some ways.
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