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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)
Marco:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 12 Jun 2019, 11:28 ---It occurs to me - We know May's chassis is failing. There's at least a 50/50 chance her mental processing module was sourced from the same place. If it has similar quality issues, some of May's behavior and impulse difficulties may be directly analogous to an organic brain problem in one of us squishies.
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Yeah, I had a PC once who was like that. But it ran on Windows Vista, so...
traroth:
Roko gets a bit carried away...
sitnspin:
Forcing a personality patch would be like forcefully brainwashing someone or slicing up their brains. There is a reason we don't do icepick lobotomies anymore.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Jun 2019, 06:54 ---If there's been enough experience with chassis damage over the years to give insurance companies the numbers to make it profitable, they will certainly be offering policies.
If May could even get one she probably couldn't afford it.
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And since we're talking 'murrica: pre-existing conditions.
To me, AI drives/cores seem more and more like "stacks"/DHFs from Altered Carbon. You can transfer the contents, you can spin them up in a virtual environment, and you can transfer them between bodies.
I wonder how much Jeph jas borrowed, and how much is just parallel evolution (well, it's "just" some kind of storage device for consciousness).
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Jun 2019, 06:54 ---If there's been enough experience with chassis damage over the years to give insurance companies the numbers to make it profitable, they will certainly be offering policies.
If May could even get one she probably couldn't afford it.
"Decreased sociopathic tendencies" started a line of thought. Jeph said years ago that AIs could change their personalities with a software patch. Assuming he hasn't changed his mind on this, it's a question why the criminal system didn't install one on May or "encourage" her to "volunteer" for one. A likely answer is that Spookybot is offended by any such idea and has put a stop to any attempts to implement it.
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I see the insurance industry using their automobile coverage model for AI's chassis. From the figures that have squeaked out, product lines and price ranges closely mirror those of passengers cars. Aside from the occasional outlier like Crushbot though, AIs don't have the potential to create liability that motor vehicles do, so the coverage is probably somewhat less expensive. Poor May could have been issued a Taurus but instead got a used Yugo. Comprehensive coverage may not even be available.
I wonder about the limits of Spookybots' power. We know that their perceived ability to be in multiple places at once is a bluff. I suspect Jeph will every now and then slip another hint that Spookybot is technology but not deity.
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