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WCDT Strips 3891 - 3895 (10-14 December 2018)
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Pogopotamus on 10 Dec 2018, 14:48 ---So ...assuming AIs get to "choose" a body and Bubbles appears to be a MILspec super duty fighting/military chassis that (assumedly) she got when she became a solider do we further assume they get to keep whatever hardware they had from the last job they performed? You'd think the military might want that specialized hardware chassis back for re-use or just might not want it wandering around the civilian landscape. They did take back Pintsize's death ray.
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My head canon is that, for entirely reasonable reasons, Bubbles’s chassis was more or less built around her once she enlisted and that even if she can move into another body, no other AI would be able to safely operate hers. Further, it might be configured such that leaving is also impractical–she is probably pre-core at least (the protected AI drives seem to be a recent innovation) and may Not have the right connections.
As such, once the programme was shut down, it makes sense that “we can’t remove her easily, we can’t kill her, mothball storage is expensive, and we’ll be like five hardware generations more advanced next time we try anyway, might as well just let her walk out” won the argument.
Much like the phrase “never attribute to malice where stupidity will suffice” there is a lesser-known companion: “never attribute to generosity where laziness will suffice” that frequently applies to militaries everywhere.
Case:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 15 Dec 2018, 08:46 ---
--- Quote from: Pogopotamus on 10 Dec 2018, 14:48 ---So ...assuming AIs get to "choose" a body and Bubbles appears to be a MILspec super duty fighting/military chassis that (assumedly) she got when she became a solider do we further assume they get to keep whatever hardware they had from the last job they performed? You'd think the military might want that specialized hardware chassis back for re-use or just might not want it wandering around the civilian landscape. They did take back Pintsize's death ray.
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My head canon is that, for entirely reasonable reasons, Bubbles’s chassis was more or less built around her once she enlisted and that even if she can move into another body, no other AI would be able to safely operate hers. Further, it might be configured such that leaving is also impractical–she is probably pre-core at least (the protected AI drives seem to be a recent innovation) and may Not have the right connections.
As such, once the programme was shut down, it makes sense that “we can’t remove her easily, we can’t kill her, mothball storage is expensive, and we’ll be like five hardware generations more advanced next time we try anyway, might as well just let her walk out” won the argument.
Much like the phrase “never attribute to malice where stupidity will suffice” there is a lesser-known companion: “never attribute to generosity where laziness will suffice” that frequently applies to militaries everywhere.
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Or her chassis is intentionally designed to be hard to access once an AI has uploaded into it, in order to minimize vulnerabilities against enemy takeover, or intelligence gathering should she be captured.
Neko_Ali:
Or the more simple way... There was no reason not to let her keep the body. Since the AI soldier program was shut down they had no use for it. Giving her a new body would have been an additional expense. She apparently has no built in weapons, she's just stronger and tougher than most humans, but not beyond other AI bodies we've seen walking around. So she can punch hard enough to chip part of a brick wall. I've known humans who are strong enough to do that. She couldn't hurt anyone any worse than a trained martial artist could, yet there was no call for Bruce Lee to surrender his body or anything similar.
Case:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 15 Dec 2018, 14:02 ---Or the more simple way... There was no reason not to let her keep the body. Since the AI soldier program was shut down they had no use for it. Giving her a new body would have been an additional expense. She apparently has no built in weapons, she's just stronger and tougher than most humans, but not beyond other AI bodies we've seen walking around. So she can punch hard enough to chip part of a brick wall. I've known humans who are strong enough to do that. She couldn't hurt anyone any worse than a trained martial artist could, yet there was no call for Bruce Lee to surrender his body or anything similar.
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Simple, concise, well-reasoned ... what the Hell do you think you're doing posting this in the WCDT? :x
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: lemonglamour on 11 Dec 2018, 21:18 ---I KNEW BEEPATRICE WAS NONBINARY, YEAH BOI
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So does she use hexidecimal instead? :claireface:
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