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WCDT Strips 3571 to 3575 (18th to 22nd 2017)
tustin2121:
--- Quote from: swapna on 19 Sep 2017, 13:48 ---The idea to mask the functions under layers makes sense to me, what doesn't is that the AI wouldn't have access to them even when they needed to. Wouldn't they need to have a very detailed interface with their chassis? Run diagnostics? Read error logs? How would you know if an update worked? Is "it feels weird" really the most accurate diagnostic you can get from a sophisticated mechanical device with highly sensitive and diverse sensors?
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I'm reminded of how hard drives work these days. Did you know that, with common hard drive sizes these days being up in the terrabytes, a hard drive has its data so densely packed that the hard drive is guessing at the data more often than it's reading it? The HD has advanced error correction routines that are running constantly when reading data, to try and correct for all of the errors it gets from noise of the surrounding data, defects in the surface its written on, drift from the heads, etc. Even non-spinning drives have these problems, as the cells the data is stored in leak charge and lose integrity over time and writes. But once it gets to the OS level, any troubles the HD may have had in reading the data have been quietly swept under the rug, and oftentimes the only way you can tell when a hard drive is failing is when its taking much longer than usual to boot or open a program or file. Or the computer just outright fails to boot one day. It's a feeling that the hard drive may be struggling at that point.
There are programs out there to read "SMART" data from the drive, which should be able to tell you things like error rates and the like, but often times the numbers returned from a HD's SMART data can't be compared to anything other than itself, generally making it useless to use in the short term, and only mildly useful to a vigilant user over the long term. And some drive manufacturers even refuse to report SMART data, because it might make their hard drives "look bad".
I expect a similar thing could well happen to chassis and their manufacturers. Though I imagine it becomes an AI Rights issue at that point, and government regulation is bound to get involved...
Tova:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Sep 2017, 01:53 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 18 Sep 2017, 23:54 ---I guess in her case extreme stress causes a disruption to her autonomic processes, thus she loses consciousness?
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No; Bubbles hit the nail on the head. It's psychosomatic: Roko really doesn't want to see her detached and flayed foot, so her subconscious systems shut down her higher processes (she 'faints') so she doesn't have to do so.
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My interpretation is just as psychosomatic as yours. :-P
Thrudd:
My own personal twist on this is that Faye is demonstrating similar tunnel vision to Clinto, Brun and Emily.
Each have their own social issues unique to them but they all have a deep abiding passion for something.
Come to think of it most of the rest of the cast has show similar passion for a subject.
Claire as a Bibliophile, Marigold and Dale as Otaku, Steve and Cereal.
The only main character that has not as yet displayed passion for a subject as far as I can remember is our erstwhile lead, Marten.
Kugai:
I wonder what the Blend was
Payback Faye?
Suuuuurrrely not :-D
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 19 Sep 2017, 16:35 ---The only main character that has not as yet displayed passion for a subject as far as I can remember is our erstwhile lead, Marten.
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Guitars.
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