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

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Tlaloc:
I had the impression that RoKo underestimated Bubbles because she did not expect the AI in a Human-AI partnership to take the lead, look at most examples we have and you have a fair argument that while AI have agency they're somewhat dependant to some degree on their people. They are all companions in some aspect, even Pintsize.

Bubbles breaks this trend, being quite autonomous and choosing the union with Faye because she wishes to.

Tova:
This is a bit of a sidetrack, but has anyone yet brought up the idea that Roko's name is most likely a reference to Roko's Basilisk? I feel as though someone must have mentioned it and I've just missed it, but a search bore no fruit. This idea was mentioned on the QC wiki.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Narrow Century on 13 Sep 2017, 23:08 ---The whole "insurance" thing raises an interesting question about the setting. Is chassis insurance provided by your job, like health insurance, or do AI's need to cover it themselves, like car insurance? On the one hand, for many working AI's, their chassis is much more important to their ability to function than a car is to a human, but on the other hand, a chassis malfunctioning isn't likely to be an existential threat in the same way that a health crisis is.

So, two questions for the crowd.

1. How SHOULD this work, if you were in a position to dictate it?
2. How DOES it work in the setting, by your estimation/cynicism?

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Welcome, new person with thoughtful questions!

1. I haven't even figured out how health insurance for humans should work. It should be universal enough that there will never again be a case like May's.
2. Everything related to synthetics in the QC universe is a work in progress. I expect that chassis insurance is a set of hasty improvisations being changed and fixed rapidly.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Sep 2017, 11:28 ---
More seriously, is this telling us something about how AIs interpret their bodies? If dismemberment is that disturbing to them then they must have a more human-like attachment to their bodies, as opposed to treating them as a change of clothes.

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There are those people who are overly attached to their automobiles.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Sep 2017, 01:29 ---I haven't even figured out how health insurance for humans should work. It should be universal enough that there will never again be a case like May's.
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{political digression}
Framing your question in terms of "insurance" is already implicitly limiting it to a commercial transaction and thus subtly sidelining the possibility of fully social healthcare.
{/political digression}

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