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WCDT Strips 3566 to 3570 (11th to 15th September 2017)
zisraelsen:
I smell (heh) a business deal between Coffee of Doom and Union Robotics brewing (heh).
BenRG:
Yeah, today Roko learned something important: When Faye said that she brought a 'sparkling personality' to the business? She was lying. Seriously, I think that Faye brings is the offbeat artistic talent that leads to non-standard solutions and shortcuts that no-one with a more typical technical eduction would necessarily consider.
Now, what is this curious reaction to Assam tea on Roko's part? I'm thinking that the hallucinations that some blends cause are not entirely welcome, mostly due to what they bring racing out of the subconscious. Not nasty things, just embarrassing things that you'd prefer to not admit to yourself.
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 14 Sep 2017, 21:48 ---I smell (heh) a business deal between Coffee of Doom and Union Robotics brewing (heh).
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I've expected for some time for Hannelore to branch out (either officially or unofficially) into becoming a robot pharmacologist. I'm wondering if she'd be the first person to seriously study the affect of scent on AI processes and thus be the woman who sort of writes the book on it. Maybe literally write a book too?
Scarblac:
Faye's song there reminded me of //www.youtube.com/watch?v=54CkdT5QznQ.
Its chorus goes
Ahhh, packing that meat, workin' long hours, on the count of the beat
Ahhh, packing that meat, doin' hard labour, gonna grow like a weed
And that is similar in theme, and rhymes with Faye's.
Also see the "Vinticious Version" of the same song. I can never decide which I like better.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Sep 2017, 23:34 ---Now, what is this curious reaction to Assam tea on Roko's part? I'm thinking that the hallucinations that some blends cause are not entirely welcome, mostly due to what they bring racing out of the subconscious. Not nasty things, just embarrassing things that you'd prefer to not admit to yourself.
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Well, I guess she might think her reaction to the scent might be a bit embarrassing. She does have an image to uphold.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 14 Sep 2017, 23:34 ---I've expected for some time for Hannelore to branch out (either officially or unofficially) into becoming a robot pharmacologist. I'm wondering if she'd be the first person to seriously study the affect of scent on AI processes and thus be the woman who sort of writes the book on it. Maybe literally write a book too?
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As for Hannelore, with her father being the Creator, and all, it just might be an instant standard work, regardless of its actual merits, if she did write that book.
--- Quote from: Case on 14 Sep 2017, 16:37 ---Speaking of the emergent properties of AI: We know that AIs can swap their chassis with relative ease - but are AI minds actually independent from their 'processor'? Because our minds aren't. I'm no neurologist, but I guess it's safe to assume that it'd be incredibly difficult to run your mind in my brain, because the 'Ghost' influences the physical structure of the brain, and vice verse. Much of what we know about the emergent properties of QC-verse AI minds comes from Bubbles'-memory arc - where Jeph seemed to suggest that the mind is an emergent property of the 'crystal brain'.
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I've wondered about that as well, ever since Corpse Witch demonstrated the AI drive to Faye. What exactly is the nature of that drive, and does it include processing power? If not, what is life for an AI without processing power like; some kind of stasis? It also begs the question of what happens when an AI downgrades their chassis. The subprocesses of large AI, like Station, cannot possibly be run on a regular humanoid or anthropc chassis, let alone something like a toaster.
Of course, a lot of those processes would no longer be necessary; but to what extent does that influence their personality, and their sense of self?
--- Quote from: Tlaloc on 14 Sep 2017, 13:28 ---I mean, I have an incredible sensation that misanthropic and / or nihilistic AI will get terminated due to their predecessor (the first one) being a benign singularity. All AI wish to live with humans thus far.
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That does sound like a dangerous assumption: how benign is your singularity, if it already starts suppressing its own? There's also the fact to consider that so far, we've only seen AI that wish to live with humans - with May as a possible exception.
JimC:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 14 Sep 2017, 14:41 ---I suppose it could also be because when Bubbles is in a large, strong chassis and Faye is (comparatively) a small, weak meatbag.
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Unless Faye picks up on her bedside manner/customer care damn quick Bubbles is going to have to start wondering what Faye does contribute beyond a bit of forward momentum. Taking the proverbial out of a customer's insecurities seems like an especially good way to ensure they never come back. Roko has already specifically said she doesn't like being treated by a jerk, and is spending her own money to avoid it. Being good at the job will only get you so far.
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