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WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
ZoeB:
Spookybot needs help. Peer review. How would she go about recruiting an ethics review panel?
traroth:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 22 Jan 2019, 21:39 ---Spookybot's existence has weird implications for the setting that I'm not sure I like being explicit and smacking into the coffeeshop AU vibe story.
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I couldn't agree more. Spookybot themselves is an interesting character, but I'm not sure (that's an understatement) they are actually suited for the QC universe. They look like a character who didn't find their way to the Alice Grove universe...
The fact that such a character exists, and the consequences that could (and should, if logic prevails) happen, would change the comic to the point it couldn't be recognized.
Case:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 23 Jan 2019, 00:19 ---Spookybot needs help. Peer review. How would she go about recruiting an ethics review panel?
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Fingersnapping it into existence? :-D
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 22 Jan 2019, 15:51 ---Now, SpookyBot doesn't just show up to say hi, they don't come up to make sure that Roko is settling in okay. They are a trickster mentor of a kind. But they're a bit of an ass doing it.
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Yup. If Spooky is a demigod, they're more like Loki than other more conventional deities. However, they've shown no inclination to desire worship of any sort.
It occurs to me, only Bubble had an idea of what Spookybot is, but didn't know about the who in spite of there being at least, what, seven? apparently identical copies of the same chassis living somewhere in humanspace quarters, presumably near-by. Spooky does not regularly go among humans and 'bots. If they did rumors would have reached Roko by the nature of her work. The personality/intellect presumably existed running alongside other AIs' core programs across a world of systems before it ever felt the need to download into and animate a platoon of identical androgynous|asexual bodies. Were all of these activated in order to pull off the illusion of being in multiple places at once?
Meh - it's 1:00 AM here on the Left Coast of the US and I'm too sleepy to speculate on the intersection of theology and cybernetics. Maybe tomorrow.
oddtail:
As usual, I have nothing insightful or smart to say about the comic. Hi!
All I'm gonna say is, based on the comment under the comic. I *love* a world where a technology had to be developed for something called "blush panels" for artificial bodies.
This is the future world I want to live in.
That's all from me. Next time, I'll be back to my usual weaksauce bitching about something, probably.
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