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WCDT 4181-4185 (20th - 24th, January 2020)
Tyr:
While I agree, if I had such a feature I'd keep my phone at my hip as I do currently unless it was critically low on charge (so it doesn't act as an extra drain and because my last phone ended up with a swollen battery because it overheated while I left it on a WCP while sleeping), or integrate it with my body entirely (you can't steal my phone! I am my phone!
On that note, it was implied that Momo's old body had built in Wi-Fi, as she downloaded a patch wirelessly, so I'd bet that most non-military AI have a SIM card and an antenna built in, or tether to a box that's little more than a beefy power supply, a Mobile Data antenna, a Wi-Fi antenna, and a slot for a SIM card.
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Tyr on 19 Jan 2020, 21:03 ---While I agree, if I had such a feature I'd keep my phone at my hip as I do currently unless it was critically low on charge (so it doesn't act as an extra drain and because my last phone ended up with a swollen battery because it overheated while I left it on a WCP while sleeping), or integrate it with my body entirely (you can't steal my phone! I am my phone!
On that note, it was implied that Momo's old body had built in Wi-Fi, as she downloaded a patch wirelessly, so I'd bet that most non-military AI have a SIM card and an antenna built in, or tether to a box that's little more than a beefy power supply, a Mobile Data antenna, a Wi-Fi antenna, and a slot for a SIM card.
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SIM card slot? I guess we know what's in the right nipple!
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Dngrsone on 19 Jan 2020, 10:38 ---My favorite restaurant has the best wet burritos... and their table salsa is actually good, not spicy tomato sauce or hot marinara...
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I had no idea what a wet burrito is but did a Google search...now I want a meat, cheese, bean, and rice wet burrito.
BenRG:
Jeph actually answers the question from last week's WCDT here. "Why does May need a body?" Because she cannot understand how Roko had a dissociative episode. To me, that means that she's basically content and at ease in a corporeal body; perhaps in a way that she never was as an disembodied AI. So, I think that the argument can be made that this is necessary for her mental health and that, for the sake of her rehabilitation, one that works properly to a reasonable degree is also a requirement.
I'm glad that Roko is taking her mental health seriously but I really think that she should be getting professional help. Muddling through by your own best judgement can sometimes not be as effective as you hoped.
andrybak:
May, I also did not follow. Apparently, "at a remove" is a very archaic phrase, rarely used in regular speech.
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