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WCDT 4171-4175 (6 to 10 Jan 2020)

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TheEvilDog:
Yeah but the problem is that May's chassis is failing apart. Even the mechanic who took a look at it said she would be better off scrapping it rather than throwing good money after bad.

If anything, a chassis swap would likely exacerbate Roko's problems. Imagine being in a body that is literally falling apart and imagine the horror combined with Roko's trauma.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Y on 10 Jan 2020, 18:02 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 10 Jan 2020, 16:16 ---Some years ago, I bought a laptop.  I found the damn thing locked.  I had to call the manufacturer and get a password, just so I could access the BIOS to install an operating system!

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I would likely just short the little battery so it resets.


--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Jan 2020, 16:27 ---It's less polite, too. Pain reflexes are powerful things.

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It looked like she's missing out on the whole dimension of pain receptors. The feature would be better if it simulated the pain it would bring. As otherwise you have that feeling of never having to feel responsible for your actions, also imagine Pintsize unable to do 'pap pap pap...'

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I asked Jeph once in a Q&A years ago whether QC synthetics perceived damage as pain, and he said something close to "No. They're computers."

That may be their largest difference from us on a day to day basis.

cybersmurf:

--- Quote from: MrGone on 10 Jan 2020, 07:09 ---Maybe that firmware is part of the reason she's having a hard time integrating in the first place. With how integrated she was with the last one, it's possible she did with the new body enough to have some sense that she didn't have 100% control, but couldn't place it exactly.

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Yes. The added/enabled abstraction layer, making it feel remote controlled, like almost unperceivable input lag. "drive by wire" instead of direct control. Whether the OopsieGuard was disabled for the Police package, or may just be a newer addition, or maybe just the fancier models, we can't say. But I can really understand what made Roko feel being misplaced in a foreign chassis.



--- Quote from: TV4Fun on 10 Jan 2020, 01:51 ---
--- Quote from: rtmq0227 on 09 Jan 2020, 18:47 ---Of course, you would have thought this pop-up would have occurred during her self-destructive face-washing episode.

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There might have been a new update released since then.

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Personally, I think the OopsieGuard would only sprung into action right before she would have cut into her dermal covering. Nothing before that would've left (lasting) damage.




--- Quote from: SeattleCrochetWoman on 09 Jan 2020, 21:58 ---
--- 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.

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Didn't the Crushbot incident happen right after she went to Union Robotics and told them she was no longer police?

Is it cold in here?:
Just so

EDIT:

The display did close by urging her to consult her user manual. Maybe it says something helpful like "hold down the shift key to override". If there's no override, then false alarms are crippling.

traroth:
Let's be optimistic, here. Maybe it's precisely that firmware that made her feel so foreign to her new body, and removing it will improve things?

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