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WCDT Strips 3566 to 3570 (11th to 15th September 2017)

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JimC:
There are some interesting parallells in McCaffrey's Brain ship series, and the virtual debt slavery of the shell people.

OldGoat:
Roko is the only publicly employed AI we've really become acquainted with (it appears Station works for Ellicott-Chatham Enterprises rather than the Air Force), so she really doesn't give us much to go on as far as robots with surnames.  As for her having an immature personality, MSP would not have hired her - they'd be looking for someone uncommonly level-headed.

We don't know much either about AI's off-duty living arrangements although it stands to reason that their space requirements would be much smaller than a meatperson's, and dialog in several strips confirms this.  Those we've been introduced to all live with humans, but this may be a holdover from the days when AIs were all property rather than persons in their own right.  Roko however, as well as a last name, seems to have an apartment (although she may share it with a coworker, be they meat or metal).  Is she in the vanguard of AIs living autonomously, an early adopter of a totally independant AI lifestyle?  There's lots of fuel for speculation there.

SotFX:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Sep 2017, 06:41 --->I think we need to first solve the issue of who is the legal owner of the chassis in question.

Answering a question about Momo's expensive new chassis, Jeph said AIs are the legal owners of the bodies they inhabit.

Nuclear submarines and space stations are likely exceptions.

If an AI establishes ownership by downloading, that would rule out some possibly useful business models like chassis leasing.

--- End quote ---

I would assume that large vessels and the like would be treated as more akin to a residence/workplace combination. Some places might even have large numbers of AI coworkers there that handle their own jobs and are all running there on the same network in, comparatively close quarters with each having their duties and specialties.

On another note, Bubbles cannot be a sparkling vampire or fae now along with an AI it seems...so no potential real unicorns there since she doesn't sparkle.

Kugai:
I think Bubbles underestimates her sparkle.

Is it cold in here?:
"Never would've guessed" is emphatic phrasing.

Instead of the 50-50 chance a priori that Bubbles was the brains of the outfit, Officer Basilisk had not even considered it.

Something interesting is going on. If she's prejudiced against veterans then she's going to have a rough time in a police department. If she was just that impressed with Faye's brains, that would be a benign explanation(*). It's also conceivable that Officer Basilisk has internalized some anti-AI prejudices. That in turn could either be the surrounding toxic culture (Akima called endemic racist ideas "smog") or the result of her job constantly showing her AIs stupid enough to commit crimes and to get caught.

(*) Her sister did call Faye the brains of the family.

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