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jhndflpp

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That's one rich AI
« on: 09 Feb 2012, 13:08 »
Station's net worth in EC-Tec stock alone is apparently worth over 600 million USD.  Assuming he's smart enough not to put all his eggs in one basket, this non-corporeal entity is a multi-billionaire. 

If Mark Zuckerberg wants to take my Facebook pics and show them off to everyone, he can feel free. 
...of course, he's already doing whatever he wants with all our info anyway.
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #1 on: 09 Feb 2012, 13:44 »
We have been beating this issue to death already since the strip went up over in the WCDT (Weekly Comic Discussion Thread).

Welcome to the forums, btw. Feel free to post a little "intro" to yourself over at the "Hi, I'm New" subforum.
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #2 on: 09 Feb 2012, 14:30 »
ah... i didn't know what "WCDT" meant (perhaps i should have looked around more).  i thought it odd there was no thread on the individual strips.

and thanks for the "welcome"
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #3 on: 09 Feb 2012, 15:24 »
You will learn young Padawan
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Re: That's one rich AI
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #5 on: 17 Feb 2012, 00:10 »
Jeph just said on Tumblr that AIs own the bodies they inhabit.

Unless there are exceptions, that means that Station is the owner of the space station.

In which case he's even richer than we thought.
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #6 on: 17 Feb 2012, 00:43 »
Unless his "body" is a plug-in control unit somewhere.
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #7 on: 17 Feb 2012, 01:03 »
Speculating groundlessly, the ECT stock might have been given to him to settle ownership claims on the station hardware.
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #8 on: 17 Feb 2012, 07:30 »
Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Feb 2012, 00:43
Unless his "body" is a plug-in control unit somewhere.

This might be the reason why Station is scared of Hannelore. She and (assumably) Dad are probably the only two who know exactly where his "control unit" is located.

And she may know how to reprogram him, too...  :-o
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Re: That's one rich AI
« Reply #9 on: 17 Feb 2012, 14:01 »
I've sometimes wondered if the rules on AI 'Ownership' might work similar to the rules regarding Shell Persons in Anne McCaffreys books - Especially for AI's like Spaceship and Station.
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