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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
oddtail:
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--- Quote from: oddtail on 01 Jul 2019, 23:46 --- I wonder what transfer method is used here. Even express bank account transfers can take up to an hour and a half (from what I know),
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But how long do transfers take in a universe where there are AIs running the banking system?
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That's why I'm not saying it's "unrealistic" or whatever, I'm just wondering how it works.
Also, I gotta assume "like in real life unless otherwise specified", because even AIs have pretty typical, slice-of-life-y problems. It's fun to speculate, but incredible leaps in technology don't seem to have changed life all that much, orbital pizza delivery notwithstanding.
Case:
--- Quote from: JimC on 02 Jul 2019, 12:33 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 01 Jul 2019, 23:46 --- I wonder what transfer method is used here. Even express bank account transfers can take up to an hour and a half (from what I know),
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But how long do transfers take in a universe where there are AIs running the banking system?
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Hmmmh - I distinctly recall Momo (?) explaining that the cognitive performance of a run-of-the-mill AI like herself (or Roko, Bubbles, May etc) is roughly equivalent to that of an adult human.
Specifically, she denied having to slow down her perception of time in order to hold a conversation with a human being without dying of boredom. She went on to explain that most of her substrate's computing power was taken up running her personality.
Hence, if transfers are overseen by those standard class of AI, there appears to be no reason why the system should perform markedly faster than ours does. If overseen by a discorporated Station-class AI, OTOH ....
Aniroc:
I infinitely prefer this arc approach to deal with May's body falling apart than the idea of Sven doing anything about it (as in, the suggestion from these forums guessing about it). That doesn't seem in character for him to me. Maybe because I just don't think he'd get that attached that quickly to that degree (he and Faye were a long build up as acquaintances/antagonists and hooked up for awhile and then he cared about her), and he seems reasonably conservative with his money, even if he makes it easily (he cared about his Les Paul costing a lot and being not what he thought, his apartment isn't lavish, he isn't always taking vacations, we've never seen him buy anyone a gift really, etc). And he's somewhat less self centered now but that would be a big jump, maybe he could over-compensate from self-centered to overly-generous awkwardly as he tries to be better but it would be a completely new character trait to me.
I like the Roko parts the most of this arc, but I haven't minded where Spookybot arcs have gone before, it's just super different from the rest of the characters so I don't know what to hope for.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 02 Jul 2019, 12:42 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 02 Jul 2019, 12:33 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 01 Jul 2019, 23:46 --- I wonder what transfer method is used here. Even express bank account transfers can take up to an hour and a half (from what I know),
--- End quote ---
But how long do transfers take in a universe where there are AIs running the banking system?
--- End quote ---
That's why I'm not saying it's "unrealistic" or whatever, I'm just wondering how it works.
Also, I gotta assume "like in real life unless otherwise specified", because even AIs have pretty typical, slice-of-life-y problems. It's fun to speculate, but incredible leaps in technology don't seem to have changed life all that much, orbital pizza delivery notwithstanding.
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The actual transfer part of a bank transfer these days takes as long as a snap of the fingers. The reason it looks like it takes days to you is because someone has to check you are the account holder, check you have the funds to transfer, check the recipient account exists and isn’t suspended or otherwise unable to accept transfers in, type the transfer amount in, and finally push the button. Also, banks like to take the money from your account and put it into their own for a day or so so that they can collect their own interest* on it, before completing the transfer.
A long time ago, it took days because someone had to arrange for actual cash to be put into trucks and driven to the designated receiving bank, occasionally mediated by a third bank that had branches closer to both the sender and recipient and which could perform an internal transfer faster than sending the truck.
I expect spookytron here is simply skipping all that messy meat bag finger-fumbling and directly triggering the appropriate transfer codes (possibly while also back-filing all the matching paperwork so it looks like a normal transfer that was triggered last week).
*not precisely but that’s the overall effect.
OldGoat:
Things are moving fast. Remember, the Sven|May|Watermelon threesome was just last night in the story line.
In other news, maybe this should be Roko's new theme song.
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