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WCDT strips 4021-4025 (10th to 14th June 2019)

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Tova:
I would imagine that one AI right (among many) being fought for would be to have AI charging facilities in all buildings.

It's not too hard to imagine why. A more obvious significant goal of AI rights groups would be equal employment opportunities. Lack of AI facilities would be a barrier to employment.

AIs would also need to visit companies for meetings, to make inquiries, and various other purposes. AIs would visit people's homes as well, for all kinds of reasons. Such visitors should be catered for.

Charging facilities would be an AI analogue of restrooms, and as we've already seen, AIs can get caught short. Thus, in a world with equal rights for all, all buildings would have facilities for AIs.

Now flip that around, and it's not hard to see why all buildings should also have human facilities. Humans can work at, and visit, AI organisations. Since the QC world is already skewed towards humans, it's easy to imagine that legislation around that already exists.

One real-world example that I have encountered. Girls' schools with male restrooms. Does that surprise you as well? It really shouldn't, for precisely the same reasons outlined above - visitors and (potentially) male staff.*

* I was surprised in my specific example that they weren't unisex bathrooms, but that's another (albeit related) topic.

Kairi:
I am in awe of the art here. Really liking the primary color thing happening. I would very much like to imagine this has been set up since they were introduced.

With grey backgrounds too? This is just extremely visually pleasing

OldGoat:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Jun 2019, 13:52 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 13 Jun 2019, 08:17 ---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.

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And as long as May is under correctional control, I would not believe any claim she had consented to a patch.

Neither would Arrogant Architeuthis, I imagine.

The strip has shown wetware-based intelligences seeking change through therapy. Would patches with informed free consent be the equivalent for silicon-based people? Why have we never seen it happen? Do they prefer talk therapy?

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Analogous to meds for us squishies.  Some embrace it and bless it for having given them their lives back, others think it's some kind of plot, and some who desperately need it have to have it forced upon them by court order.  I imagine that same range of behaviors in AIs.

(I acknowledge that there are less than excellent therapists who do inappropriately force medication upon patients.  I also know more that a couple seriously dysfunctional people who know they need their medication but resist treatment because of their personal policy of bowing their necks against any form of authority, including clinicians.  I don't think that kind of mindset would be as common among AIs who as a group would have a much better awareness of the electrochemical nature of their own brain media.)

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