Just hyperbole, it was nine years ago (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1658).
- What is the significance of "11 years ago"? Or is it just hyperbole on the part of May? How much time has passed since Momo developed a crush on Sven?
On one hand, I wanna go 'May, you jerk.'
On the other, Roko literally got by accident what she really wants. So, yeah....
Ironically, Roko doesn't WANT a new body, too.
Hang on, now hang on. It's not entirely May's fault and we should give her the benefit of the doubt. I mean I'm entirely sure May can pull another clusterfuck out of this situation.
Hang on, now hang on. It's not entirely May's fault and we should give her the benefit of the doubt. I mean I'm entirely sure May can pull another clusterfuck out of this situation.
Excpet this is the second time this has happened. May lashed out at Winslow for getting a new chassis and Hannelore set her straight. You'd think by now she'd wait until she got the whole story, but this is May and she still has poor impulse control.
I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Rokko would run into May and she'd get jealous over her new chasis and percevied good luck while being completely insensitive to Rokko's dymorphia.
Hannelore isn't around to call her on it. Hopefully, it'll be Bubbles because I'm not sure May could handle a tet-a-tet with Spookybot.
Hold the damn line a minute there-
- May doesn't know about Rocko's dysmorphia. At all.
- May lost an arm and her face. Got nothing. Had to go to an illegal AI ring who threatened her parole. For medical care.
- Rocko is looking fancy and well put together. Like Momo. Transference is a thing here too.
- May is in a shitty mood and lashing out. She is being rude. She is not the devil made flesh and walking the earth scourging the innocent!
- May is in a shitty mood and lashing out. She is being rude. She is not the devil made flesh and walking the earth scourging the innocent!
- May is in a shitty mood and lashing out. She is being rude. She is not the devil made flesh and walking the earth scourging the innocent!
To be fair, I'm saying she's a jerk not the devil
Hang on, now hang on. It's not entirely May's fault and we should give her the benefit of the doubt. I mean I'm entirely sure May can pull another clusterfuck out of this situation.
Excpet this is the second time this has happened. May lashed out at Winslow for getting a new chassis and Hannelore set her straight. You'd think by now she'd wait until she got the whole story, but this is May and she still has poor impulse control.
I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Rokko would run into May and she'd get jealous over her new chasis and percevied good luck while being completely insensitive to Rokko's dymorphia.
Hannelore isn't around to call her on it. Hopefully, it'll be Bubbles because I'm not sure May could handle a tet-a-tet with Spookybot.
Of course she's insensitive, she doesn't bloody know!
She’s not being a jerk, either. She’s in a bad place. Just like Momo was in a bad place. She thinks she has lost one of her very few friends. She doesn’t know about the dysmorphia.
I wonder if Roko borrowed that shirt from Melon. It looks more like something she'd wear.
She’s not being a jerk, either. She’s in a bad place. Just like Momo was in a bad place. She thinks she has lost one of her very few friends. She doesn’t know about the dysmorphia.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s easy for us to judge from our comfortable, omniscient perspective. I would have thought that this audience would appreciate that, honesty.
I would really like to come here and find compassion instead of judgement one day. I would not share details of my life to some of you in a million years.
My first thought: NO, May! that'd basically be going back to robot jail! Your parole officer isn't authorized to fund repairs. Full replacement has got to be completely off the table. Meaning you're going back to runtime on a server.
Second thought: is the only thing keeping May in that body her own stubborn pride, or are her friends not ALLOWED to buy her a new one as a term of her parole, e.g. that body is lo-jacked in lieu of an ankle bracelet?
There's a fundamental difference between being compassionate to someone's bad state and excusing their bad behavior.
I don’t excuse her bad behaviour, I just don’t think calling her a jerk over it is any better.
Hang on, now hang on. It's not entirely May's fault and we should give her the benefit of the doubt. I mean I'm entirely sure May can pull another clusterfuck out of this situation.Snip
She's still upset over the thing with Momo, she doesn't know about Roko's issues with the new body or the circumstances of obtaining it.
I Have A Theory about how this is going to play out. I'm going to insert spoiler tags for what's really going on (in my version) and how it'll play out in the open. So, please, read the open parts first. I can see this going two ways, based on if I'm right on the first hidden bit.
First bit:(click to show/hide)
Sven will try to get another "date" with May and either:
- When May says yes, Sven takes her back to his place and explains that he got curious and went to a new store that rented loaner robot bodies for AIs getting their main body serviced/whatever and they just got in a shipment that day, so he rented one for her. They could go out, have fun, have a "proper" date, while her old body stays here and charges up. May thinks this might be a good plan because even if she runs into Momo, she won't be recognised. So they go out, have a great time, go back to Sven's and bang for a while. May is really impressed with the new body's performance, and asks, "So who do I got to fuck to keep this baby?"
OR(click to show/hide)- May will feel guilty about the whole Momo thing and refuse. Then you'll see Sven going back to his place
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FWIW, I agree with those who said that May would reject a gift chassis on the grounds of pride and fear of being under obligation to anyone.I could happen that way, but that will depend entirely on where May is on the introspection spectrum. With her impulse control issues, pride and fear of obligation are likely to be afterthoughts.
Welcome, new people!
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One thing that scares me here is that May's tendency to lash out and assume the worst may hurt her in ways that are hard to fix. On prisontalk.com, the fraction of posters who have re-established themselves in society after parole say the only way to succeed is to let go of victim mentality. Nothing easy about that, of course, when someone has been treated as unfairly as the criminal justice system treats people, but if May needs to do that work in order to succeed I want her to succeed.
What makes you think I object to the word?
So if May and Sven start a regular relationship, and if Sven buys her a new body, is that a friend being generous to a friend or is it sex work? How will May see it?More than likely May will see it as another string controlling her life.
So if May and Sven start a regular relationship, and if Sven buys her a new body, is that a friend being generous to a friend or is it sex work? How will May see it?
Welcome, new people!
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One thing that scares me here is that May's tendency to lash out and assume the worst may hurt her in ways that are hard to fix. On prisontalk.com, the fraction of posters who have re-established themselves in society after parole say the only way to succeed is to let go of victim mentality. Nothing easy about that, of course, when someone has been treated as unfairly as the criminal justice system treats people, but if May needs to do that work in order to succeed I want her to succeed.
My brother was in and out of prison from his teens to his late twenties, and he'd agree with that. (He now has a job that comes with a home, and is okay.) He does tend to lash out at those closest to him, which is something he certainly shares with May. He also tends to take advantage of people, something that May also does, I think. Where he differs from May, though, is that he's lost that chip on his shoulder. He owns his mistakes, and has moved on as best he can with the consequences of those mistakes. He's built a life for himself from grit, personality and talent, and has also made some effort to repair the close relationships he had with family and friends.
As an aside, nobody in our immediate family judges my brother anymore for the crimes which imprisoned him years ago (none of which were violent). The relationships he damaged were due to him being a selfish, arrogant, thoughtless jerk. (That was a trait that was sometimes evident in his crimes.)
Welcome, new people!
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One thing that scares me here is that May's tendency to lash out and assume the worst may hurt her in ways that are hard to fix. On prisontalk.com, the fraction of posters who have re-established themselves in society after parole say the only way to succeed is to let go of victim mentality. Nothing easy about that, of course, when someone has been treated as unfairly as the criminal justice system treats people, but if May needs to do that work in order to succeed I want her to succeed.
My brother was in and out of prison from his teens to his late twenties, and he'd agree with that. (He now has a job that comes with a home, and is okay.) He does tend to lash out at those closest to him, which is something he certainly shares with May. He also tends to take advantage of people, something that May also does, I think. Where he differs from May, though, is that he's lost that chip on his shoulder. He owns his mistakes, and has moved on as best he can with the consequences of those mistakes. He's built a life for himself from grit, personality and talent, and has also made some effort to repair the close relationships he had with family and friends.
As an aside, nobody in our immediate family judges my brother anymore for the crimes which imprisoned him years ago (none of which were violent). The relationships he damaged were due to him being a selfish, arrogant, thoughtless jerk. (That was a trait that was sometimes evident in his crimes.)
I guess the whole issue here is the time frame. How long (in QC time) is May out of jail? For meat people, changing this kind of "automatic lashing out" behaviour takes time. Add to it being prone to extreme emotional responses - QC AIs are usually more emotive than humans, and May in particular is not the most cold analytic person we know...
We can also presume that time is different for AI.
So consider now that May has possibly the equivalent of 60 years in prison.
"And for a time, I was tempted by her offer."
"How long a time?"
"0.68 seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity."
<snip> Yep, if I was May, I'd be pretty pissed off too.
She is a jerk and a bully. The May I've observed is mean to people around her, even when those people are nice to her. And it is so overt, that I believe May both knows and intends to hurt those around her as an expression of her frustration.
May is a lot like a beaten dog. She started out snarly and bitey at everything and everyone, but she had friends now, knows it (for all she won't readily admit it), and is much more snarl than bite these days.
I see May very differently. She has almost no filter, and a penchant for profanity. (Poor impulse control is pretty much her defining characteristic from the beginning.) The moment Dale sort-of agreed to the "Virtual Companion" beta, she dropped the facade and started swearing. And yet, he stuck it out with her, because he saw that underneath the crudity, she's actually a pretty decent person.
Someone remind me what Basilisk’s new business is? Because I’m not clear how / why she’d take on May as a client.An AI rights nonprofit (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3891).
She’s not being a jerk, either. She’s in a bad place. Just like Momo was in a bad place. She thinks she has lost one of her very few friends. She doesn’t know about the dysmorphia.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s easy for us to judge from our comfortable, omniscient perspective. I would have thought that this audience would appreciate that, honesty.
I would really like to come here and find compassion instead of judgement one day. I would not share details of my life to some of you in a million years.
[I probably shouldn’t comment now, because I mostly lurk and I didn’t say anything at the time. But last week someone said that Momo was “garbage” because of her bad reaction to May sleeping with Sven. Was it a bad idea for her to do that? Yes. Was it immature? Yes. Should she apologize to May? Yes. Should she think about what she did and maybe learn from it? Of course. But to say she’s “garbage” because she acted shitty or like a jerk once is going wayyy too far.
Also a couple years ago, someone suggested that Faye’s sister’s girlfriend should be denied a psychology degree because she suggested that Faye’s feelings for Bubbles May be more than friendship. Was it inappropriate and kind of rude? Yes. Was the girlfriend kind of annoying in other ways? Definitely. But to suggest that she should be denied a degree or reported for a HIPAA violation for something that wasn’t a therapeutic situation—wow!
Conscious vs subconsciousSomeone remind me what Basilisk’s new business is? Because I’m not clear how / why she’d take on May as a client.An AI rights nonprofit (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3891).
But it seemed like Roko got the idea of going into that line of work from May's problems with her body, so I'm not sure why the latest comic makes it seem like some new realization. I suppose Roko might have forgotten about it for a while with the trauma & disruption from her body being destroyed, so this might be more remembering than a new realization.
I probably shouldn’t comment now, because I mostly lurk and I didn’t say anything at the time. But last week someone said that Momo was “garbage” because of her bad reaction to May sleeping with Sven. Was it a bad idea for her to do that? Yes. Was it immature? Yes. Should she apologize to May? Yes. Should she think about what she did and maybe learn from it? Of course. But to say she’s “garbage” because she acted shitty or like a jerk once is going wayyy too far.
Also a couple years ago, someone suggested that Faye’s sister’s girlfriend should be denied a psychology degree because she suggested that Faye’s feelings for Bubbles May be more than friendship. Was it inappropriate and kind of rude? Yes. Was the girlfriend kind of annoying in other ways? Definitely. But to suggest that she should be denied a degree or reported for a HIPAA violation for something that wasn’t a therapeutic situation—wow!
(I realize I’m actually being judgmental myself here though.)
Also I'm just always in awe of the depth of Jeph's characters.Eh, it’s more like he occasionally decides to re-think them into something more interesting, and then retcons them. When Hanners was first introduced, she was a completely different person, confident and bold. Then he re-wrote her as neurotic and touch-averse with some hand waving about “being on pills” masking her new personality.
Sven and May are the two most emotionally immature, and that would give Jeph as a writer room to make them grow.
Nah I think that May is one of the MORE mature characters. She is just prickly sometimes. However, she does understand how the real world works, something that the comfortable income with very little effort that other cast members seem to have lack.I can’t remotely agree with this. May comes across as a sociopathic child most of the time, a creature of pure Id that can’t imagine anyone else’s point of view mattering. Which is why her appearing contrite in her recent conversation with Momo was a first. I haven’t seen any evidence that she knows how the “real world works” beyond what has happened to her directly.
May is a lot like a beaten dog. She started out snarly and bitey at everything and everyone, but she had friends now, knows it (for all she won't readily admit it), and is much more snarl than bite these days.
May is like a dog, one that's been beaten and abused. When a dog has been kicked enough times, you can't be surprised when it bites.
Is it wrong that every time I read Roko going full Boston with the accent, I immediately think she’s speaking like Lois Griffin? :psyduck:
I thought this forum was supposed to be more polite than that. Y’know, more like “I don’t agree, and here’s why,” not “WTF you don’t know what that word means.”
I think I'm with OldGoat on this one - May is not evil or bad to the core. It's just poor impulse control, getting caught, and being formed by a "attack is the best defense" environment, where being crude is better than getting attached.
Faye got to Bubbles by constantly pushing her out of her comfort zone, but in a caring way. May's shell. has to be broken with a club, and I've got the feeling this might even be more literal than I'd care to admit. May has to experience first hand being vulnerable isn't a bad thing, or a sign of weakness. And that probably won't work by telling her, but by not having an alternative. Unless Roko finds a way, it's probably gonna be her chassis finally giving in, and other people flat out helping her while shut down (theSvarnSven incident might just have been the first in a series, making May actually trust other people.
Now, now. No one deserves to be forced to go into the world of CTRL+ALT+DELETE.Didn't he reboot the whole thing with a different premise?
Some characters are one-note jokes and will probably remain one-note jokes indefinitely. Crushbot will always be CRUSHBOT. Melon will always be the insane and slightly stupid comic relief. Personally, I like Crushbot and his third person narratives despite this, but kinda wish Melon would wander off and bother the cast of Ctrl-Alt-Delete or something.Starting next week, Melon will be at the center of a new storyline where she teams up with Yelling Bird and the Thanksgiving turkeys to find her inner confidence and discover the true meaning of President's Day.
Apart from the 'geez, May', I have to say that I want a blue version of Roko's shirt.
EDIT: blue and black. See icon for color scheme.
I wish to be reborn as bread after seeing Roko's new look.
Is it wrong that every time I read Roko going full Boston with the accent, I immediately think she’s speaking like Lois Griffin? :psyduck:
While I agree that May's situation sucks it's not quite the same as what human ex-cons go through because they're effectively immortal. Humans who are released from prison may have lost 10 or 20 years of their lives. Those were prime years lost too and without may prospects for employment it's difficult to hold down a job if their health is declining. If they're lucky they might last long enough to get social security and Medicare, but even so they probably have little saved for retirment. AIs on the other hand have to make do with substandard chassis, but it's still possible to muddle through until a more affordable option is available. Considering how the cost of things decreases over time it's possible May could afford a better chassis than what she has now within just a few years. And while she'll still have a conviction record after parole she'll have more opportunities including self employment.
That's just my two cents, but hopefully this will give Rokko something to keep her mind off of her own disassociation problem.
May has shown enough conscience to rule out being a sociopath. It hasn't been a lot, but in a sociopath it would be flat zero.
So if May and Sven start a regular relationship, and if Sven buys her a new body, is that a friend being generous to a friend or is it sex work? How will May see it?
While I agree that May's situation sucks it's not quite the same as what human ex-cons go through because they're effectively immortal. Humans who are released from prison may have lost 10 or 20 years of their lives. Those were prime years lost too and without may prospects for employment it's difficult to hold down a job if their health is declining. If they're lucky they might last long enough to get social security and Medicare, but even so they probably have little saved for retirment. AIs on the other hand have to make do with substandard chassis, but it's still possible to muddle through until a more affordable option is available. Considering how the cost of things decreases over time it's possible May could afford a better chassis than what she has now within just a few years. And while she'll still have a conviction record after parole she'll have more opportunities including self employment.
That's just my two cents, but hopefully this will give Rokko something to keep her mind off of her own disassociation problem.
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I'll tell you one other thing that worried me: Panel 5. Roko is suddenly sounding very manipulative there; I'm wondering if the opportunity to pursue her own personal crusade may lead her to use May with less concern about May's wants and needs than is appropriate or, indeed, she allows herself to perceive. That would be a shame.
Roko's, uh, "take charge" attitude could also be psychologically dangerous to someone who is recovering from a prison sentence. May needs autonomy.But it's difficult for her to exercise autonomy with a chassis that leaves her almost a cripple* and so she's facing a chicken v. egg conundrum. I agree, though, Roko's running at 11 and needs to dial it back.
Do we know that AI are actually immortal? I don’t think they’ve been around long enough in-story for even the eldest to be approaching “long lived human” age so unless someone has done some serious number crunching on average drive wear rates, read/write error rates, and general cruft accumulation, there’s no evidence either way and AFAIK, no word-of-author either.There are enough functioning robot chassis out in the world of QC that there’s almost certainly enough data to calculate mean time between failures (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures) for their critical components. Even if MTBF is decades, you can figure out what the curve looks like after only a few years. (Man, can’t believe I still remember this from those engineering courses I took in 1985 before I switched to computer science.)
Do we know that AI are actually immortal? I don’t think they’ve been around long enough in-story for even the eldest to be approaching “long lived human” age so unless someone has done some serious number crunching on average drive wear rates, read/write error rates, and general cruft accumulation, there’s no evidence either way and AFAIK, no word-of-author either.
I suppose that one can say that AIs that are careful enough, and can afford to retain proper backups, and have a proper disaster-recovery plan are effectively immortal.
Do we know that AI are actually immortal? I don’t think they’ve been around long enough in-story for even the eldest to be approaching “long lived human” age so unless someone has done some serious number crunching on average drive wear rates, read/write error rates, and general cruft accumulation, there’s no evidence either way and AFAIK, no word-of-author either.
It kind of does apply to them, if you think about it. Because the cores are near indestructible, imagine being an AI who has a crappy chassis that breaks down somewhere remote. The body can't move or its fallen apart, but the core is fine. And its not going anywhere.Kind of like Mr Church (https://www.alicegrove.com/page/22), no?
Sweet dreams.
Rokko might want to be careful about throwing her weight around. She’s not a cop anymore.
"Decreased sociopathic tendencies" started a line of thought. Jeph said years ago that AIs could change their personalities with a software patch. Assuming he hasn't changed his mind on this, it's a question why the criminal system didn't install one on May or "encourage" her to "volunteer" for one. A likely answer is that Spookybot is offended by any such idea and has put a stop to any attempts to implement it.
It occurs to me - We know May's chassis is failing. There's at least a 50/50 chance her mental processing module was sourced from the same place. If it has similar quality issues, some of May's behavior and impulse difficulties may be directly analogous to an organic brain problem in one of us squishies.
If there's been enough experience with chassis damage over the years to give insurance companies the numbers to make it profitable, they will certainly be offering policies.
If May could even get one she probably couldn't afford it.
If there's been enough experience with chassis damage over the years to give insurance companies the numbers to make it profitable, they will certainly be offering policies.I see the insurance industry using their automobile coverage model for AI's chassis. From the figures that have squeaked out, product lines and price ranges closely mirror those of passengers cars. Aside from the occasional outlier like Crushbot though, AIs don't have the potential to create liability that motor vehicles do, so the coverage is probably somewhat less expensive. Poor May could have been issued a Taurus but instead got a used Yugo. Comprehensive coverage may not even be available.
If May could even get one she probably couldn't afford it.
"Decreased sociopathic tendencies" started a line of thought. Jeph said years ago that AIs could change their personalities with a software patch. Assuming he hasn't changed his mind on this, it's a question why the criminal system didn't install one on May or "encourage" her to "volunteer" for one. A likely answer is that Spookybot is offended by any such idea and has put a stop to any attempts to implement it.
I’d argue that “bluff” is the wrong word for Spookybots’ multilocationism. They have multiple bodies, so they really can be in multiple places at once!
The background details of how this is implemented are not currently specified, though I would postulate multiple instances of the same personality running on separate hardware, with frequent synchronization of memories so that the different instances don’t diverge too much.
So, uh... hmmm.. yeah. She's come across as having sociopathic tendencies to at least one person in the QC universe.Sociopathy is going to be a spectrum like anything else, surely. Folks might like to draw a line in the sand and say anywhere beyond that is a Sociopath and a danger to society and anyone within that is a perfectly normally functioning member of society, but I bet it ain't like that.
I’d argue that “bluff” is the wrong word for Spookybots’ multilocationism. They have multiple bodies, so they really can be in multiple places at once!
The background details of how this is implemented are not currently specified, though I would postulate multiple instances of the same personality running on separate hardware, with frequent synchronization of memories so that the different instances don’t diverge too much.
Read "Ancillary Justice" if you want to see what happens if you let multiple instances of the same consciousness deviate too far from each other.
So, uh... hmmm.. yeah. She's come across as having sociopathic tendencies to at least one person in the QC universe.Sociopathy is going to be a spectrum like anything else, surely. Folks might like to draw a line in the sand and say anywhere beyond that is a Sociopath and a danger to society and anyone within that is a perfectly normally functioning member of society, but I bet it ain't like that.
I’d argue that “bluff” is the wrong word for Spookybots’ multilocationism. They have multiple bodies, so they really can be in multiple places at once!
The background details of how this is implemented are not currently specified, though I would postulate multiple instances of the same personality running on separate hardware, with frequent synchronization of memories so that the different instances don’t diverge too much.
Read "Ancillary Justice" if you want to see what happens if you let multiple instances of the same consciousness deviate too far from each other.
So Roko actually has found dirt on May's manager...Well, maybe. Who knows? Maybe asking nicely was all it took.
Ya know, though....But it's the government.
If May were able to show that she has the ability to ask for something nicely, it would represent marked personal growth on her part, and might convince whoever's in charge of giving parolees new bodies that she's capable of rehabilitation and thus worth the cost of a new(er) model chassis.
Not that I expect that would happen, but then, I can't recall May ever asking nicely for anything, so...
So Roko actually has found dirt on May's manager...I doubt it. Roko's an old hand at bluffing, and if you run your bluff right, their guilty conscience will fills in the details.
Ya know, though....
If May were able to show that she has the ability to ask for something nicely, it would represent marked personal growth on her part, and might convince whoever's in charge of giving parolees new bodies that she's capable of rehabilitation and thus worth the cost of a new(er) model chassis.
Not that I expect that would happen, but then, I can't recall May ever asking nicely for anything, so...
Nelson has managed to be Employee of the Month so many times because he has held the record for the number of AIs he manages to disabuse of any notion that anyone will give them practical assistance and, instead, that they must learn to accept their lot in life. Maybe he'll be the one to explain it to Roko (much like how O'Malley was the voice of the cynical policeman). Roko is going to get in a lot of trouble for actually offering May practical assistance by bothering people in the Department of Corrections over something that no-one (in power) is even remotely concerned about.
In my (wildly speculative) headcanon, until it's disproven, Nelson has won Employee of the Month because he's the only one there with a license to practice law, so he's the only one who can actually get anything done. My only reason for thinking this is that it would be hilarious to picture Nelson, attorney-at-law arguing in court.
There's something about three robots standing in front of a door marked "Restroom" that makes me snicker.
No doubt it's a building not specifically designed for AIs, they may even have clients come in with meatfolk friends, and being a not-for-profit they take what space they can get. Still . . .
Not sure what the building requirements are in Northampton, but I'm pretty sure that all buildings providing a service must also have restrooms, even if the occupants of the building don't need them.Now that does sound like local government.
Forcing a personality patch would be like forcefully brainwashing someone or slicing up their brains. There is a reason we don't do icepick lobotomies anymore.
Nelson has managed to be Employee of the Month so many times because he has held the record for the number of AIs he manages to disabuse of any notion that anyone will give them practical assistance and, instead, that they must learn to accept their lot in life. Maybe he'll be the one to explain it to Roko (much like how O'Malley was the voice of the cynical policeman). Roko is going to get in a lot of trouble for actually offering May practical assistance by bothering people in the Department of Corrections over something that no-one (in power) is even remotely concerned about.
In my (wildly speculative) headcanon, until it's disproven, Nelson has won Employee of the Month because he's the only one there with a license to practice law, so he's the only one who can actually get anything done. My only reason for thinking this is that it would be hilarious to picture Nelson, attorney-at-law arguing in court.
The strip has shown wetware-based intelligences seeking change through therapy. Would patches with informed free consent be the equivalent for silicon-based people? Why have we never seen it happen? Do they prefer talk therapy?
Analogous to meds for us squishies. Some embrace it and bless it for having given them their lives back, others think it's some kind of plot, and some who desperately need it have to have it forced upon them by court order. I imagine that same range of behaviors in AIs.Forcing a personality patch would be like forcefully brainwashing someone or slicing up their brains. There is a reason we don't do icepick lobotomies anymore.
And as long as May is under correctional control, I would not believe any claim she had consented to a patch.
Neither would Arrogant Architeuthis, I imagine.
The strip has shown wetware-based intelligences seeking change through therapy. Would patches with informed free consent be the equivalent for silicon-based people? Why have we never seen it happen? Do they prefer talk therapy?