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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
They are separately administered and except for some voluntary accreditation programs there are no nationwide standards except for a body of Constitutional law.
The level of oversight by elected officials varies widely and can either make things worse or make them better. I brought a few worrisome signs of trouble from a clean professional police department to the attention of a City Council member who said that they wouldn't "micro-manage" the police force.
So Roko could be in a bad place even if there are good places all around, raising the question of why she didn't transfer to another department.
She does seem like the type who might have un-meetable high standards.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 28 Sep 2018, 04:02 ---You know what I'd like to see? May getting a Transformers-like body that is either as a surface-to-orbit shuttlecraft or an upright humanoid form (and maybe a giant bear-dog beast mode because Dr Ellitcott-Chatham likes good four-legged girls). After seeing the latest Bumblebee trailer, I like the idea of May in a Giant Mecha body trying to fit into her usual routine and places; naturally, she ends up knocking over lots of stuff.
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Welcome to the Decepticons! Just need to give you a name. Well you can fly and you’re annoying. That’s it we’ll call you Mayfly!
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 28 Sep 2018, 04:02 ---You know what I'd like to see? May getting a Transformers-like body that is either as a surface-to-orbit shuttlecraft or an upright humanoid form (and maybe a giant bear-dog beast mode because Dr Ellitcott-Chatham likes good four-legged girls). After seeing the latest Bumblebee trailer, I like the idea of May in a Giant Mecha body trying to fit into her usual routine and places; naturally, she ends up knocking over lots of stuff.
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To paraphrase Dr Ian Malcolm, that sounds like the worst idea in the long sad history of bad ideas.
May wouldn't be awkwardly trying to sit on a couch, she'd be the one trying to bodyslam it.
Emperor Norton:
And to add on how fractured police are with state/federal/county/city etc police in the US, our laws are just as bad. There are federal laws, state laws, county laws, city laws, sometimes something can be legal or not depending on where you are standing. (most major things are federal or state laws, and things like gun laws and self defense laws can vary wildly).
Case:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 28 Sep 2018, 00:19 ---We've speculated on how AIs acquire education, and since they are computers it's reasonable to assume they can simply download information. That Mr. Bartholomew Punchbot, CPA has never reminisced about his college days supports this theory. AIs, like humans, have differing levels of intellectual capacity, and Roko seems to be on the bright side, even among AIs.
Is Roko going to download a JD and sit the next Massachusetts bar exam? She has the smarts and practical knowledge of the criminal justice system. I can definitely see her as an attorney (and she'd have plenty of opportunities to user her "I am surrounded by idiots" face from panel 4).
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I'll defer to the forumites who have a CS grad and a specialization in machine learning/'artificial intelligence' - like e.g. Morituri (sorry for not remembering the others' names atm.) - but IIRC, Jeph established that an AI's intelligence is an 'emergent' property of their computing 'substrate', and that nobody truly understands the process - pretty much like our own (more squishy) computing substrate.
And our own computing substrate's learning involves altering its physical structure.
IMO, that would cast doubt on the possibility of acquiring non-trivial skills via a simple download - if the intelligence is an emergent property of the substrate, and all intelligences are similar, but distinctly different from each other, than my question would be how such a Matrix-like, downloadable skills-package could be simultaneously tailored to the individual substrate as well as universally applicable. Even if it could be tailored to all the configurations of all AI's computing substrates at initialization, those substrates would have significantly - and unknowably - changed since initialization, if AI's brains' learning process also involves irreversible alterations to their physical structure.
So personally, I'd regard it as "semi-established as canon, until further clarified by Jeph" that 'adult' QC-verse AI learn complex skills pretty much like we do - the slow and tedious way.
I also vaguely recall that we've had this discussion before? And that one of the learned ones disagreed with me? :psyduck:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 28 Sep 2018, 00:19 ---That Mr. Bartholomew Punchbot, CPA has never reminisced about his college days supports this theory.
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I'm sorry, but as far as I can see, all it does is not falsify your theory.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".
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