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WCDT 4181-4185 (20th - 24th, January 2020)
cybersmurf:
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--- Quote from: Wingy on 21 Jan 2020, 18:56 ---Melon has a precarious grip on QC Universe reality. I wonder if she'd be autistic if she were a human and not an AI.
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Trouble grasping reality is schizophrenia.
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No reason it can't be both. I'm considering her inability to remember and model appropriate social customs and her ability to be highly focused on what most of us would consider minutia.
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To me, Melon kinda feels like she doesn't want to understand. Might be resignation, might be ignorance, might be incapability of whatever kind.
--- Quote from: Dngrsone on 22 Jan 2020, 12:01 ---I'm usually good about RTFM before I violate the warranty... not to say I don't violate it-- I'm a modder, but at least I know beforehand how the thing is technically supposed to act prior to me breaking it.
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Technology has advanced too far to not RTFM.
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--- Quote from: Wingy on 20 Jan 2020, 04:44 ---And finally for today's musing, if Clinton gets told by Faye to cover his hand to keep it from getting all cruddy internally, why doesn't she insist Mays' hands have a covering?
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Because biologicals like Clinton (and all of us, I am assuming) are messy and constantly shedding - body oils, sweat, dead skin cells, food particulates, fecal matter, saliva, makeup particulates if we use makeup, shed hair, ear wax... I would suspect AI corporeal units would lack much of this incidental debris.
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The protection against "short distance organic matter" is one thing, but since it was meant to replace a human hand, it's meant to look like a human hand. May is meant to look like a robot/android anyway, so her body/model has a more mechanical look (as opposed to Roko and Momo).
Also, it might a price thing - to keep cost down, the mechanical parts are not meant to take all the wear, and superficial damage should be replaceable easily and cheaply. And the money goes more into the man/machine interface (which is probably harder and messier to do than just building a robot) - unless that's done in the stump, and the hand is "pure robot tech".
hedgie:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 22 Jan 2020, 14:43 ---Technology has advanced too far to not RTFM.
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I dunno. Last time I read a manual was the motherboard manual the first time I built a PC. My general mode of operation is to poke around until I can do whatever it is I want to do, in which case I learn very little, or until I break something at which point I start to actually learn how it works. Then again, I don't *yet* have a kickass cyborg body with eyes that shoot lasers.
jwhouk:
I would contend that there is a difference between Clinton's hand and Roko's Philomena body: one does not have an AI operating it, but a human being.
Is it cold in here?:
Meddling would be easy to do without Roko knowing.
Imagine that a popup appears on every Congressman's screen saying they can either vote for the AI First Step Act or have their Ashley Madison account published. That's the sort of thing Eminence Grise could do with the least amount of their power.
shanejayell:
There needs to be a band named "Unspeakable Urges."
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