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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
OldGoat:
It's interesting to note who has the real power in this relationship.
For all their near omnipotence, Spooks is still an immature personality. It's only recently they've actually experienced face-to-face interactions with other corporeal entities. Roko, on the other hand, is arguably the most mature member of the entire cast (Bubbles being the other viable candidate).
For all practical purposes Roko is becoming mentor to a godling. To Spooky's credit, in spite of their immaturity they've enough wisdom to know they need Roko as a teacher.
Edited for typos. I really shouldn't post just before going to bed.
brasca:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 02 Jul 2019, 00:13 ---It's interesting to note who has the real power in this relationship.
For all their near omnipotence, Spooks is still an immature personality. It's only recently they've actually experienced face-to-face interactions with other corporeal entities. Roko, on the other hand, is arguably the most mature member of the entire cast (Bubbles being the other viable candidate).
For all practical purposes Roko is becoming mentor to a godling. Too Spooky's credit, in spite or their immaturity they've enough wisdom to know they need Roko as a teacher.
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Is it maturity or social skills? Spookybot has remained isolated and alone from humans and fellow AIs for so long they probably lack the basics on friendship, but still have enough wherewithall to know they have a deficiency. Perhpas that's why they are reaching out, but choosing wisely. They would've liked to be friends with Bubbles, but feel they crossed a line by entering their consciousness and didn't want to do the same to fix Roko's problem. Roko is courageous enough to challenge Spookybot and not become one of endless sycophants who want to curry favor or avoid their wrath.
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 01 Jul 2019, 23:46 ---Assuming this is not merely for a joke
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It's a safe assumption that it is, whether it's Jeph or SB making the joke.
--- Quote from: oddtail on 01 Jul 2019, 23:46 ---Secondly - Spookybot is already getting some responses? Even assuming those are from AIs who are constantly monitoring the amount of money their organisation has (or humans who happened to hit "refresh" on their bank's site, or whatever), how exactly are they contacting Spookybot? Did they leave an e-mail in the transfer information or something?
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Most donation sites require some sort of method of contacting the donor (if only to send a receipt for tax purposes), and it would make sense that while SB is definitely donating via assumed identities, they are narcissistic enough to keep monitoring those inboxes just to see how the charities react. It would also be a safe assumption that, at this point, the job of monitoring those donations and interacting with donors is handled by AI.
Then again, see my first comment
--- Quote from: oddtail on 01 Jul 2019, 23:46 ---Which I don't really find *that* amusing.
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Agree to disagree on that :)
It's interesting to note that SB definitely has some behavioral quirks in common with Station, including a blase attitude toward large sums of money. There have been conversations discussing how different the thinking of large-scale AI is from humans, or even standard AI. It's a slow boil, but I have to wonder if Jeph is building to something or this is just spectacle creep.
Also, I wonder if Roko's charity was one of the ones donated to...
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: brasca on 02 Jul 2019, 06:14 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 02 Jul 2019, 00:13 ---It's interesting to note who has the real power in this relationship.
For all their near omnipotence, Spooks is still an immature personality. It's only recently they've actually experienced face-to-face interactions with other corporeal entities. Roko, on the other hand, is arguably the most mature member of the entire cast (Bubbles being the other viable candidate).
For all practical purposes Roko is becoming mentor to a godling. Too Spooky's credit, in spite or their immaturity they've enough wisdom to know they need Roko as a teacher.
--- End quote ---
Is it maturity or social skills? Spookybot has remained isolated and alone from humans and fellow AIs for so long they probably lack the basics on friendship, but still have enough wherewithall to know they have a deficiency. Perhpas that's why they are reaching out, but choosing wisely. They would've liked to be friends with Bubbles, but feel they crossed a line by entering their consciousness and didn't want to do the same to fix Roko's problem. Roko is courageous enough to challenge Spookybot and not become one of endless sycophants who want to curry favor or avoid their wrath.
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"It's hard working in groups when you're omnipotent."
And of course, see John DeLancie's more recent role, who has been explicitly learning the value (and difficult nuances) of "friendship"...
Theta9:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 02 Jul 2019, 07:21 ---And of course, see John DeLancie's more recent role,...
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The air traffic controller in Breaking Bad?
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