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WCDT Strips 3571 to 3575 (18th to 22nd 2017)

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Morituri:
First, I suspect repairs involving internal parts made visible would be a lot more common for AI than they are for humans, because while Robot bodies can be made more durable in the short run, the warranty on the parts expires a lot faster without the aforementioned self-repair capabilities of the human chassis.  No matter how good your mechanical elbow is, you're going to have to replace it once a decade or so if you use it a lot.

That said, Roko may be less than ten years old in her mechanical body; her simulated growing-up time as a disembodied AI in a software creche on some server didn't involve such physical issues, and they may not have been simulated.  So she may be dealing with parts starting to wear out for the first time. 

Speculation that maybe she is a copy of a human mind currently running as an AI in a robot chassis would be another possible reason for her to be unfamiliar with this kind of repair - but that brings up a host of additional issues, such as whether and where QC medical/AI science is that advanced and how she feels about the 'life left behind' of  her biological predecessor, and how the people from that life (parents, friends, lovers, children ... great-great-grandchildren?) feel (if they even know) about her.  Does she visit the gravesite of her biological 'parent' every so often when she needs to think about the 'meaning of life', or just to pay respects and leave flowers?

Whatever the shape of Roko's issues in detail though, I can see Bubbles taking advantage of Roko's momentary "Downtime" to explain to Faye that they're going to be giving her a deep discount and an apology, and in the future please show more respect for the sensibilities and sensitivities of our customers, both because we don't really want to be known as assholes and because showing the same respect for people's issues about their mechanical bodies that you'd show for their issues about their biological bodies is the right thing to do.

OldGoat:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Sep 2017, 07:49 ---Police are exposed to hazards all the time, traffic accidents being the most common.

Officer Basilisk is handicapped in her job if she can't stay conscious if parts fall off in a collision.

She shouldn't come to pieces over coming to pieces.

--- End quote ---
In my own personal experience, the sight of other people's blood and parts don't bother me in the least, but I learned long ago to look the other direction when I'm getting an injection or blood draw.  (The smell of an abruptly opened bowel is another matter.)  Roko can sort though a pile of body parts, human or AI, soaked with hydraulic fluid and/or blood like a trooper*, as long as she isn't the source.

*See what I did there?   :laugh:

swapna:
I think Faye isn't insensitive on purpose - she's just been "socialised" in this job by AIs like Bubbles or Punchbot or CW. CW popped open another AIs head to demonstrate before she even started, and nobody saw an issue. Punchbot and other fighters might have even inquired about the nature of the damage, and what she did to fix it; they'd need in-depth knowledge of everything to do with their bodies and others because they are fighters; I'm willing to bet that precise strikes can be even more devastating than between humans.

Bubbles might need to teach her, but not by scolding her; I think her behaviour isn't much different than what it was in CW's shop, so just asking her to be a little more patient with AI like Roko might be enough.

Also, how in hell does Roko use her feet without knowing how they work?

Is it cold in here?:
Most organic people can do just that.

swapna:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Sep 2017, 10:17 ---Most organic people can do just that.

--- End quote ---
Yep, but then again, we don't come with USB ports either. To receive data, an AI has to "speak" the USB protocol, just as they have to be able to consciously access and filter data that they access over library databases or the Internet. So, the idea you're proposing is that AI are  can use those protocols/their  bodies without consciously accessing them, like organics, or even without being _able_ to access them. Which would make less sense, since they get software upgrades (with bugs that they have to patch, that affect their bodies - Thumblord? The many-fingered Momo?) And Hardware upgrades that would come wither different software.

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