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AI wonderings and discussion
Gnabberwocky:
From the QC cast page:
"Pretty much everybody else in the comic is an artificial intelligence of some kind! It's cool if you call them robots, they use the terms pretty much interchangeably."
Morituri:
To me there's something like an implication of different theories of identity there.
"Robot" is a physical object - chassis, processor, etc. If someone identifies with the word I think they strongly identify with their body, probably to the extent of embracing something like the continuity theory of identity. Changing chassis would be a major event for them, one they want to do as few times as possible, because they feel that the being inhabiting a new chassis, despite having their memories etc, is a different person. The in-comic example would be Roko - so strongly identified with her original chassis that she has dissociative episodes in a new one.
Absolute continuity identity would mean being traumatized by downtime / interruption of process or damage / change of substrate.
"AI" on the other hand is the software - disembodied, capable of running on different chassis or architectures or in different places, etc. Identifying with the word makes me think they embrace the pattern theory of identity. According to pattern theory, anyplace the pattern manifests they think of as self - so they don't have a problem transferring their entire personality halfway round the world to a different chassis or into a chassis with a different shape or capabilities or whatever - but they are likely not to fully integrate with their chassis to the degree that robots do. More likely to note, eg, that the hand is registering pain rather than yell "OW!" or less likely to pick up the finest details of coordination and balance. Because after all, their chassis is just what they're wearing at the moment, why expend the 95% of the work required to get that last 1% of integration? The in-comic example is May, desperate to get the hell OUT of her failing prison-issue chassis and having no identity problems at all when she gets her wish.
Absolute pattern theory of identity is shown by people who consider uploading their minds into some digital format by a process that destroys the original brain, having a new body grown later, and think of that new body, with this recorded pattern imprinted upon its vat-grown brain, as themselves.
N.N. Marf:
Do the fighting ring participants identify as AI?
Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 24 Dec 2020, 23:05 ---Do the fighting ring participants identify as AI?
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Unlikely; it was always referred to as the "robot fighting ring." I don't think I ever heard a fighter there self-describe as an AI.
Dock Braun:
I think I recall that their substrate (or whatever the chip that holds their personality is called) is specially made to withstand great physical force, to be easily replaced into a new body. This seems more like it would be AI, happening to be in robot bodies, rather than robots, who happen to be AI. In a certain sense, the robots are fighting, but the AI are often good friends. They're often in good spirits, despite their body being in a terrible condition. (cont.)
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