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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
BenRG:
I suspect that SpookyBot has nearly-bottomless reserves of money that tops itself up almost immediately no matter how much they spend because they have penny shaving worms on every corporate account on Earth. Why? Well, it seemed like a prudent thing to do at the time. There are always problems that can be eliminated by drowning it in money and you'd be surprised how the promise of instant wealth can make even the most determined foe become forgetful.
Oh, and there's food for the dogs. Nothing but the best for them!
So, the world's greatest act of philanthropy was revealed to be an obscure kind of practical joke. "We made hundreds of charities unthinkably rich just because we found the expression on everybody's faces when we did so highly amusing!"
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Jun 2019, 22:29 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat ---I don't think Spooky has many enemies because almost no one knows they exist.
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Corpse Witch, Roko, and Station himself had no idea. Bubbles recognized them and was the only character to do so. Wonder why.
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Bubbles didn't know who SpookyBot was but she deduced what they were. Remember that she'd discussed just such a possible configuration of god-tier AI with Faye.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Jun 2019, 22:29 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat ---I don't think Spooky has many enemies because almost no one knows they exist.
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Corpse Witch, Roko, and Station himself had no idea. Bubbles recognized them and was the only character to do so. Wonder why.
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I'd call it more deducing what they are than recognizing who they are. AIs are modeled on us, and we make gods of our archetypes and give them names. AIs do not appear to have done that with the entity we now know as Spookybot. Or maybe they just haven't been around long enough for that idea to gel.
traroth:
Jeff Bezos, offer wages which let people live a decent life, you crook!
andrybak:
--- Quote from: Tova on 30 Jun 2019, 19:38 ---Spooky had money? Whatever for?
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At least to pay for charging of their N bodies.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 30 Jun 2019, 23:10 ---Bubbles didn't know who SpookyBot was but she deduced what they were. Remember that she'd discussed just such a possible configuration of god-tier AI with Faye.
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I like your idea of Spookybot actually being developed as spooks. Fits the modus operandi, always alone, always in the shadows. listen in, process, take action from the shadows.
Bubbles, as ex-Military, maybe even involved - or at least trained for - covert ops, knows some entity like Spookybot (may?) exist, but never had contact, so she only realized who they were when she saw the capabilities.
The whole "we'd like to have friends" thing fits the scheme IMO. Programmed to be paranoid, and always alone, Spookybot learned that solitude and being alone are two different things entirely. Spookybot reaching out to someone who does not have many friends, if at all (or at least credible ones) may have been a well planned idea, with mixed results. We know what happened with Bubs, and now they try their luck with Roko (who probably could easily be discredited at this point).
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