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WCDT Strips 3696 - 3700 (12-16 March 2018)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 13 Mar 2018, 05:41 ---Random thought spurred by the last two comics; I wonder if there's some radical group of robots/AI's who would view Clinton's robotic hand as a form of "cultural appropriation", or perhaps even as a form of slavery?
I'm not saying Roko would be like that, just that the circumstances made me think of that.
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Alternatively, they could view as something akin to an organ transplant.
Stoutfellow:
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 13 Mar 2018, 05:41 ---Random thought spurred by the last two comics; I wonder if there's some radical group of robots/AI's who would view Clinton's robotic hand as a form of "cultural appropriation", or perhaps even as a form of slavery?
I'm not saying Roko would be like that, just that the circumstances made me think of that.
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Given that the hand has an autonomous mode, the slavery option seems a bit more plausible to me.
shanejayell:
Poor Roko. :D
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 13 Mar 2018, 05:41 ---Random thought spurred by the last two comics; I wonder if there's some radical group of robots/AI's who would view Clinton's robotic hand as a form of "cultural appropriation", or perhaps even as a form of slavery?
I'm not saying Roko would be like that, just that the circumstances made me think of that.
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Or they might view it the opposite way, and accept Clinton as being one of them. Or at least closer to them than the average human.
Given the diversity of AI thought and behavior, there's room for both extremes in the QCverse.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 13 Mar 2018, 06:50 ---
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 13 Mar 2018, 05:41 ---Random thought spurred by the last two comics; I wonder if there's some radical group of robots/AI's who would view Clinton's robotic hand as a form of "cultural appropriation", or perhaps even as a form of slavery?
I'm not saying Roko would be like that, just that the circumstances made me think of that.
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Given that the hand has an autonomous mode, the slavery option seems a bit more plausible to me.
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Autonomous doesn't necessarily mean sentient. It's very unlikely that the designers of the prosthetic trapped a full AI inside that would only be utilised in rare cases at it's owners behest. That seems overcomplicated and expensive, along with being morally reprehensible. The autonomous mode seems to behave more like a pet.
So probably not robo-slavery, but he may want to watch out for robo-PETA. SETR maybe? Sentients for the Ethical Treatment of Robots?
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