Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 4081-4085 (2nd-6th September 2019)
Tova:
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Sep 2019, 09:15 ---Those system alerts had better be high priority.
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"High Priority" is what the sysadmin (in this case, the AI in question) says it is. I'd hope that they had the capacity to ignore, or at least lower the priority of such alerts in order to say, have surgery (no need for anesthetic) or to function without alerts causing a potentially dangerous distraction.
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What you're talking about is essentially an AI analog of anesthetic.
You seem to be advocating for an AI to be able to turn off pain response at will. I don't think that you've really thought through the inevitable consequences of people having the capacity to simply turn off the pain response to injury without trained medical intervention.
Pain isn't just an alert system. It motivates a response.
Inconsequential:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 04 Sep 2019, 11:16 ---*Meekly raises hand*
I made up the name 'Chimevera'. As Jeph hasn't given her a canon name, most posters just started using it!
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Thanks for the clarification. Seems more polite than calling her "Greenie".
And in today's strip... AI surgery. Looks like AIs can definitely turn off their "pain" or "discomfort" or "damage reports" or whatever as needed.
I really like how the AI bodies in these strips have so many analogues to human muscles and systems with myomers for muscles, lubrication lines, coolant pumps, carbon fiber bones, etc. There's a lot of good engineering in humans. It'd be a shame to let it go to waste.
There's a lot of WTF engineering in humans, too... hopefully they left a lot of that out. The ability to shut off pain when you need to would be pretty sweet.
DSL:
This day's strip needs a soundtrack.
EDITED for a better arrangement.
Somebody:
Let's be honest here - Dr Greenie should probably have just turned herself off for the duration.
brasca:
I know Faye is operating on her leg, but it looks and sounds like she’s got her hands some place else.
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