Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
Is it cold in here?:
"Friendship's kinda crazy with a spooky little bot like you"
BenRG:
I think that, in the end, SpookyBot did want a 'favour' from Roko. The favour was to teach them to be more... human.
TheEvilDog:
Alternatively, Spooky doesn't want Roko lashing out at anyone in her depression.
It seems to me to Spookybot's appearances tend to be when an AI is in a moment of a crisis of faith or when they are on the verge of an emotional breakdown. When people are under extreme emotional distress, they lash out at people, they react in a chaotic manner. So from there, we might believe that Spooky intervenes just before that point where an AI might hurt someone. While they might hold some disdain for humanity, Spookybot might be the thin, creepy line between coexistence between Humans and AI, and, well....war.
Notice that the main times they appear are when Bubbles is looking to find her memories, when Roko is having her crisis of faith about the justice system and now during her disconnect between her and this new body. These are all points where someone in extreme distress/pain could end up doing something they could end up regretting later on. And given how Spooky has multiple chassis, I imagine they are constantly on watch.
Is it cold in here?:
All canon, but so is SB saying with regard to Bubbles that they don't normally intervene in anything so "trivial". It's scary to try to imagine what that kind of entity would consider a significant problem.
That said, a Bubbles with nothing to lose could have done a lot of damage to organic/synthetic relations before it would have been possible to stop her.
If AIs are like humans, being an emotional crisis line for them would keep SB very busy indeed.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Jan 2019, 12:11 ---All canon, but so is SB saying with regard to Bubbles that they don't normally intervene in anything so "trivial". It's scary to try to imagine what that kind of entity would consider a significant problem.
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It could also be a case of "think nothing of it". By downplaying it as trivial, Spookybot maintains a degree of autonomy, meaning that AI won't be constantly calling to them to fix trivial problems. And it allows them a buffer, by saying it was trivial, they are in turn saying that they are trivial too and again, its keeps them from calling upon Spooky. Altogether, those two measures are a way to keep Spooky from connecting to any one particular AI. Can't have friends when you've have a weird crusade.
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