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WCDT strips 3666 to 3670 (29th January to 2nd February 2018)
maneyan:
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--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 30 Jan 2018, 21:01 ---Telling those men to their faces that they represented a threat to my way of life just as much as the terrorists did would *definately* be out of order.
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and utterly ludicrous. :roll:
When it comes to the possible destruction/enslavement of the human race, "am I being rude?" is the least of your worries.
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It is if you are talking to a sentient agent. If nothing else, if you are legitimately concerned that they are a risk to humanity (and for the record, I don't think Evie does think that), surely being polite would be basic self preservation...
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AKA "Let the wookiee win".
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Even, in a way, minorities feeling they need to be more respectful to white people because white people hold disproportionately much more power and could do way more things to the minorities than vice versa.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Tova on 30 Jan 2018, 22:09 ---
I've never been invited to tea and crumpets. :(
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I've you're ever in Dundee (Scotland) consider this an open invitation!
:)
WoaLG:
I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but it's still interesting and I feel it's relevant to the current conversation. Jeph wrote a speech for a fictional UN meeting about AI rights on his Tumblr.
http://jephjacques.com/post/14655843351/un-hearing-on-ai-rights
I understand Evie's curiosity, but you've still gotta be considerate of others. And comparing AIs to nuclear weapons seems like a bad idea, no matter how much May wants to be fighter jet.
Tova:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 30 Jan 2018, 22:09 ---
I've never been invited to tea and crumpets. :(
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I've you're ever in Dundee (Scotland) consider this an open invitation!
:)
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Why, thank you! How could I refuse such an offer? 8-)
I've been to Scotland only once, all too briefly, and never to Dundee. A future visit is certainly on the cards.
JoeCovenant:
I'm torn about this whole thing.
I love Bubbles.
I totally understood Evi's reason for looking into what she was looking into.
Was Evi pretty insensitive to Bubbles feelings?
Yes... and No...
As has been said above, with some AIs in this universe that comment could have led to a genuinely interesting and maybe enlightening discussion.
But Bubbles has (for want of a better phrase) a robo-variant of PTSD, and such a comparison was always going to be a bit touchy for her.
But Evi didn't know this.
And there's where the problem lies.
Should Evi, as an academic, NOT pursue avenues of conversation?
It could be argued that Bubbles, as an ex war-bot, might be touchy on this subject...
But then, Bubbles is 'probably' not the norm for such creatures.
After all, we've seen the *rage* side of Bubbles spill over into violence - and it's only through interaction with *the cast* that this has toned down and lessened.
For all we know, Bubbles was to all intents and purposes "illegal" - after all, why would an ex military, fully armed (or at least armoured and chassis-d ) ex-warbot be released into the wild?
So - maybe Evi acted out of sheer curiosity, taking it as read that there probably should not BE any PTSD war-bots "on the streets".
(Which again leads to a VERY interesting potential discussion and the parallels of Human War Vets and AI Warbots being left unprepared for Civvy life.)
Also...
People should maybe take their foot off the gas a bit when it comes to decrying Evi for being concerned about AIs (of the war variety) being as dangerous as a nuke... remember, it's pretty much all popular culture has been feeding us forever!
Sometimes literally...
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGwz1s1E1aw
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