Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4111-4115 (October 14th-18th, 2019)
Oenone:
Has Roko not slept since getting placed in her new body???
St.Clair:
I think she has, without thinking about it; but right now she's having an episode, and she can't not think about it, which is why she can't do it.
(see: Centipede's Dilemma)
Is it cold in here?:
Spookybot's ethics intrigue me. Changing someone's mind is apparently an absolute limit to them, even with informed consent which makes medical procedures up to risky and irreversible surgery considered ethical.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 13 Oct 2019, 18:27 ---There's a time and a place, Melon. This is neither.
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Melon can’t help it. Her personality is always goofy even in a serious situation.
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 Oct 2019, 22:31 ---Spookybot's ethics intrigue me. Changing someone's mind is apparently an absolute limit to them, even with informed consent which makes medical procedures up to risky and irreversible surgery considered ethical.
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You have to remember that Spookybot doesn't (don't?) really have a code of ethics, per se. They've said that for a being as powerful as them, the whole concept of ethics seems pretty nebulous. A fair part of what we're seeing of them is their attempt to develop some sort of ethos - more, it seems to me, out of an awareness that other people consider that sort of thing to be important than out of any necessity they personally feel. Most of what they're doing could be viewed as part of an attempt to fit in better, by learning more about how normal people (biological or AI) think.
I personally think there's more to it than that, and it's better viewed as a personal growth story (which is a common theme in QC, of course). But you can view Spookybot through the lens of "wanting to perfect their regular-person disguise" and not have to leave much out.
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