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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)
Stoutfellow:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 12 Jun 2019, 14:59 ---I suppose that one can say that AIs that are careful enough, and can afford to retain proper backups, and have a proper disaster-recovery plan are effectively immortal.
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Of course, that doesn't apply to the unfortunates Castlerook was talking about.
TheEvilDog:
It kind of does apply to them, if you think about it. Because the cores are near indestructible, imagine being an AI who has a crappy chassis that breaks down somewhere remote. The body can't move or its fallen apart, but the core is fine. And its not going anywhere.
Sweet dreams.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 12 Jun 2019, 13:28 ---Do we know that AI are actually immortal? I don’t think they’ve been around long enough in-story for even the eldest to be approaching “long lived human” age so unless someone has done some serious number crunching on average drive wear rates, read/write error rates, and general cruft accumulation, there’s no evidence either way and AFAIK, no word-of-author either.
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We have word of author, but it's from so long ago it's from a completely different conception of AIs.
Pintsize asked Marten how long an AnthroPC like him could be expected to live, and Marten guessed it was effective immortality.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 12 Jun 2019, 15:35 ---It kind of does apply to them, if you think about it. Because the cores are near indestructible, imagine being an AI who has a crappy chassis that breaks down somewhere remote. The body can't move or its fallen apart, but the core is fine. And its not going anywhere.
Sweet dreams.
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Kind of like Mr Church, no?
We meatfolk may be arriving that kind of potential immortality soon, too. Personally, I think after most individual's second hundred years or so the novelty will wear off and we'll elect to die the way we've been doing all along. And then there's all the rigamarole around who gets to be rejuvenated. It won't be cheap, and the technology will need a thriving economy to support it. We just might attain the potential for immortality then lose it again in another stupid-ass war. I have no faith at all in the notion that age will automatically confer wisdom.
brasca:
Immortality has its ups and downs. You get a cool soundtrack by Queen, but someone is literally out for your head.
Strip is up
Rokko might want to be careful about throwing her weight around. She’s not a cop anymore.
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