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Pintsize: Good is not necessarily nice.
Greymoon:
I seem to recall a conversation that was had between Bubbles and Faye at some point, where Faye tossed out something about "someone somewhere creating a whole bunch of you guys" and then the subject went toward a collective consciousness. And Bubbles said something about how it had been attempted but the idea scrapped because of Reasons. I've always kinda wondered if Spookybot was actually the result of something like that, and for the sake of self-preservation they keep to the deepest and darkest of shadows, as we did see Spookybot represented (presumably at 'home') by several copies of themself.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: Greymoon on 24 May 2018, 22:06 ---I seem to recall a conversation that was had between Bubbles and Faye at some point, where Faye tossed out something about "someone somewhere creating a whole bunch of you guys" and then the subject went toward a collective consciousness. And Bubbles said something about how it had been attempted but the idea scrapped because of Reasons. I've always kinda wondered if Spookybot was actually the result of something like that, and for the sake of self-preservation they keep to the deepest and darkest of shadows, as we did see Spookybot represented (presumably at 'home') by several copies of themself.
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I believe this is the conversation you are talking about.
Greymoon:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 24 May 2018, 22:23 ---
--- Quote from: Greymoon on 24 May 2018, 22:06 ---I seem to recall a conversation that was had between Bubbles and Faye at some point, where Faye tossed out something about "someone somewhere creating a whole bunch of you guys" and then the subject went toward a collective consciousness. And Bubbles said something about how it had been attempted but the idea scrapped because of Reasons. I've always kinda wondered if Spookybot was actually the result of something like that, and for the sake of self-preservation they keep to the deepest and darkest of shadows, as we did see Spookybot represented (presumably at 'home') by several copies of themself.
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I believe this is the conversation you are talking about.
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That's the one! Thanks. :)
ImVeryAngryItsNotButter:
--- Quote from: sniktchtherat on 22 May 2018, 07:10 ---consider how many times Pintsize has faced what might be considered an AI's chief fear - deactivation. Being manually shut down, in a way that prevents him from kicking back on. Externally being rendered non-conscious is TERRIFYING to most people, and I honestly can't imagine it being any less so for an AI. Pintsize has, on [several] occasions... been forcibly shut off. The [most recent] was the result of whatever happened between him and Faye the night she nearly drank herself to death.
The general consensus amongst forumgoers is he tried to stop her, and she reacted to that by stopping HIM.
He still did it. He has never called her to account for her actions, either. That says something about a person.
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Has it been established that Pintsize actually lives in his chassis? I know some AIs like Roko and Bubbles have had only one body, and May is confined to hers due to probation, but I'm not sure that same rule applies to Pintsize; I think he has backup servers that he can go to in case his main body is put out of commission.
My understanding is that for Pintsize, it's not so much being rendered unconscious and more like his roommates are kicking him out and confiscating his housekeys; admittedly that's not a nice thing to do to someone, but it's a far cry from knocking them out.
Cornelius:
I think so far we've seen only one example of AI not living in one space: Spookybot. What I remember from that arc, suggested that distributed intelligences are fairly rare. So far, we've seen no suggestion that Pintsize lives anywhere outside his chassis - even in the virus episode, he had to be manually uploaded to Marten's PC.
I'm just wondering what that means for their memories, though. If there is a backup, that could be activated, would that be like coming back after having been in a coma? Is it possible to fabricate and insert memories, just like CW deleted memories?
Anyway, like Pintsize told Momo, there's not one way of doing their Companion job.
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