Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4171-4175 (6 to 10 Jan 2020)
Elder Sign:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 09 Jan 2020, 20:34 ---If the police departments don't know about this, then it's going to look really bad when some crucial moment comes and officers are stopped by the fundamental BIOS running on their chassis, not even remotely under their control, from doing something to prevent harm coming to others, or even stopped from defending themselves.
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So basically, problems with Three Laws compliance?
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Jan 2020, 20:56 ---I feel like this plot twist has been introduced purely to give Spookybot something new to do.
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Isn't everything? What's a story arc these days without our friendly neighbourhood robotic gestalt entity with the eminently punchable demeanour?
Gyrre:
Uninstall?
Y/N
Y
...
Are you sure?
Y/N?
Y
...
Are really really sure?
Y/N
Y
Likely ad infinitum or until she gets a prompt informing her that she just voided the warranty by uninstalling that.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 09 Jan 2020, 21:10 ---... she gets a prompt informing her that she just voided the warranty by uninstalling that.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is what she discovers in tomorrow's strip upon reading the user manual.
Case:
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Jan 2020, 14:51 ---There's something that confuses me.
If a disembodied AI requesting a body is a rare occurrence, then I would have thought that a commensurately small budget allotment would nonetheless have been sufficient to obtain for that very small number of AIs a fully functioning chassis? If it isn't, then that doesn't sound commensurate to me. What am I missing?
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I wondered about just that.
Maybe it's the department that is missing something? Part of their budget meant to support AIs on parole, say ...
Drunken Old Man:
--- Quote from: Elder Sign on 09 Jan 2020, 20:58 ---Isn't everything? What's a story arc these days without our friendly neighbourhood robotic gestalt entity with the eminently punchable demeanour?
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Preferable? Welcome? Refreshing? I mean, we did have a nice long run without Spooks the last few weeks and I, for one, didn't miss them.
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