Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4171-4175 (6 to 10 Jan 2020)
Scarlet Manuka:
--- 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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Perhaps most of the AIs who request embodiment are willing to put up -- or at least start out -- with the cheaper miniature models (Pintsize type, original Momo type, spider type, etc.) and May's request for a full scale humanoid chassis has taken a disproportionate amount of the available budget already. There's no way they can possibly afford to get her another (and probably more expensive) one on top.
I can easily imagine there being an upper limit per parolee for the amount the agency is allowed to spend on embodiment, and it probably only just covers the cheapest available humanoid chassis models so they can say they are providing a humanoid option. May's probably used up her allowance already, or near enough.
Edit: I don't think the comparisons to Roko are germane. Roko had her previous body her whole life. May didn't have a body before this so she could not have built up a psychological dependence on a specific kind of body in the same way that Roko had. And it's been mentioned in-comic that Roko's level of integration with her old body was unusually high.
Edit 2: The real question is, when it tells me there were a whole bunch of new posts while I was typing, how did the post I'm replying to (and the one before it) manage to get included in the list?
SeattleCrochetWoman:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 09 Jan 2020, 20:34 ---This seems like the sort of feature that would have to be disabled before the body were ever issued to a serving police officer. Which Roko was, at the time she got it.
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I believe she’d already quit the police force when her accident happened.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Scarlet Manuka on 09 Jan 2020, 21:37 ---Roko had her previous body her whole life.
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That's another thing I'm not 100% clear on. How does an AI first come to occupy a chassis? Are they entirely dependant on a companion buying one? If they don't get a companion, do they just go into massive debt?
BenRG:
This is fascinating in a way and it shows that the engineers who built the Philomena-G were thinking ahead about possible equipment abuse. In it's own way, this isn't that different from the reflex responses that stop us from engaging in destructive actions and make us respond far more quickly than our conscious minds can process data to remove ourselves from a source of harm.
I'm pretty sure that Roko can probably turn off OopsieGuardTM on her settings page by using her admin password (which the hallucination of her body's 'spirit' gave to her).
That said, yeah, she's going to go into a deep dissociative episode here and may even be damaged by it.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Potato Farmer on 09 Jan 2020, 01:16 ---I hope Roko finds a more successful approach but it's probably better to just leave this guy alone. As a rule I don't believe people should be rewarded for poor behaviour (and this guy sounds like being left alone is exactly what he wants) but it doesn't seem like forcing him to take his job more seriously is going to be beneficial for anyone.
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Welcome, new person!
Agreed, he seems like the type who is best bypassed rather than confronted.
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