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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)
Zebediah:
I’d argue that “bluff” is the wrong word for Spookybots’ multilocationism. They have multiple bodies, so they really can be in multiple places at once!
The background details of how this is implemented are not currently specified, though I would postulate multiple instances of the same personality running on separate hardware, with frequent synchronization of memories so that the different instances don’t diverge too much.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 13 Jun 2019, 10:39 ---I’d argue that “bluff” is the wrong word for Spookybots’ multilocationism. They have multiple bodies, so they really can be in multiple places at once!
The background details of how this is implemented are not currently specified, though I would postulate multiple instances of the same personality running on separate hardware, with frequent synchronization of memories so that the different instances don’t diverge too much.
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Read "Ancillary Justice" if you want to see what happens if you let multiple instances of the same consciousness deviate too far from each other.
JimC:
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Jun 2019, 03:44 ---So, uh... hmmm.. yeah. She's come across as having sociopathic tendencies to at least one person in the QC universe.
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Sociopathy is going to be a spectrum like anything else, surely. Folks might like to draw a line in the sand and say anywhere beyond that is a Sociopath and a danger to society and anyone within that is a perfectly normally functioning member of society, but I bet it ain't like that.
Oenone:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 13 Jun 2019, 12:39 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 13 Jun 2019, 10:39 ---I’d argue that “bluff” is the wrong word for Spookybots’ multilocationism. They have multiple bodies, so they really can be in multiple places at once!
The background details of how this is implemented are not currently specified, though I would postulate multiple instances of the same personality running on separate hardware, with frequent synchronization of memories so that the different instances don’t diverge too much.
--- End quote ---
Read "Ancillary Justice" if you want to see what happens if you let multiple instances of the same consciousness deviate too far from each other.
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Ancillary Justice is SO GOOD.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: JimC on 13 Jun 2019, 13:08 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 12 Jun 2019, 03:44 ---So, uh... hmmm.. yeah. She's come across as having sociopathic tendencies to at least one person in the QC universe.
--- End quote ---
Sociopathy is going to be a spectrum like anything else, surely. Folks might like to draw a line in the sand and say anywhere beyond that is a Sociopath and a danger to society and anyone within that is a perfectly normally functioning member of society, but I bet it ain't like that.
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And IMHO, only when literally everyone is on one kind of spectrum, or another, they will think about what actually is "normal", and how much that actually matters.
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