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How many AIs are there? What are the social consequences?
JoeCovenant:
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 28 Oct 2020, 03:11 ---Slightly off topic for this thread, but:
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--- Quote from: flfederation on 27 Oct 2020, 11:14 ---The biggest stretch for the comic so far IMO, is that it was difficult for them to find a routine that can read PDFs
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I don't see any stretch here at all. I have one somewhere, and I'd probably sooner dig that one out from that rubble they call paperwork---that I should probably get sorted lest all copies of their originals are all garbled---than put yet another piece of software I'll forget to remove into my system. It's not that it's difficult to find or install one, but one must consider the full consequences of having one installed, including the possibilities of errors in it causing a malfunction, that might be exploitable, and---especially for a cybrid who cannot simply wipe-reinstall themself---removing it cleanly.
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However, it has been shown before that they have desktops, and there seems to be a preference for not doing the paperwork in their head, so to speak - for one, I'll bet it makes it a lot easier to maintain something resembling a work-life balance. So, wipe-reinstall on their office machines would be possible.
To me, it really felt like a stretch, especially as it seems bureaucracy still works with paper files.
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It’s not a stretch because PDF is a terrible format and evidently someone in the QC-verse realised that much earlier and it never became a de facto standard, much less an actual standard.
Which is to say, it’s only a stretch if you think the rise to dominance of PDF as a format was either planned or inevitable.
Also, since the AIs can clearly read paper documents, nonsapient OCR is probably far past our current state of the art so transmitting a digital image of text instead of just the text probably never became a thing, regardless of format.
Cornelius:
The more strange they're not working paperless, then. But let's keep that discussion to its proper thread.
I was justing pointing out that the concern for installing software in themselves, in an office context, should be a non-issue.
N.N. Marf:
In any context, one should always be careful about changing programmes. Each time a programme is changed, it should be proven, lest the change increase risk of malfunction.
Cornelius:
I'd argue the risk of installing a pdf-reader on an office machine is trivial. As do most organisations.
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