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WCDT Strips 3826-3830 (10-14 September 2018)
Case:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 15 Sep 2018, 13:18 ---Jeph said once years ago that AIs could install patches to change their personalities. I don't know whether that's still canon. It raises the question of why Robot Jail exists if AIs could download impulse control and honesty. Last time this came up Neo-Ali pointed out the ethics minefield of personality modification.
Thinking about May some more.
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I suppose the Eminence Grise would come down like a ton of distributed super-intelligences on any attempt to tamper with sentient beings' personalities.
They seriously disliked even messing with one AI's memories.
Y:
When May was about to say '...stupid gf', Dale thanked her for not saying it. Does that mean their relationship isn't going that well anymore?
Case:
--- Quote from: Y on 16 Sep 2018, 07:08 ---When May was about to say '...stupid gf', Dale thanked her for not saying it. Does that mean their relationship isn't going that well anymore?
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I think it means that he appreciates May restraining her notoriously foul mouth for his (& Marigold's) benefit - something she doesn't do lightly, or often.
IMO, It's as close as a gesture of respect and appreciation as she's capable of right now. (True, she's having a somewhat easier time showing affection to Momo - though I guess a part of that is her imp of the perverse delighting in Momo's imp of fastidiousness' horror at that. Kind of like cats infallibly pick the lap of people who dislike cats to fall asleep on)
No verdict on their relationship, far as I can see.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Y on 16 Sep 2018, 07:08 ---When May was about to say '...stupid gf', Dale thanked her for not saying it. Does that mean their relationship isn't going that well anymore?
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How do you get “Dale and Marigold are breaking up” from Dale thanking a third party for not insulting her?
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 15 Sep 2018, 21:41 ---The person would have to want to do it. How many criminals would volunteer to have thier personalities rewritten?
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It gets even more interesting. How could you trust that they were really volunteering? When the alternative is Robot Jail, it would inherently be a coerced choice.
Every now and then I drop in on real-life courtrooms. A few days ago I saw a judge mention that the defendant had an outstanding warrant. The judge said she would quash the warrant but only on condition that the defendant sign herself in for inpatient treatment. The paperwork will show "voluntary commitment" but it was not voluntary. That may have been a humane diversion of a mentally ill person from the prison system but I'm not at ease with it.
I'd volunteer to have my personality re-written. and it's already well suited for being law abiding. Fighting that goddamned shyness every social interaction every day is a burden I could do without. But that would be outside of the pressures of the legal system.
How is (freely!) downloading a patch different from practicing things from self-help books?
Next digression: since apparently nobody in the public knows what Robot Jail is like, apparently nobody has written a Robot Jail memoir. There could be a market. The first person to write one could make money. May could use money. I sure get that she doesn't want to talk about it and I wouldn't nag her about writing if I knew her in "real life".
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