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auroraexpress2019-08-13 10:48 pm
catcophonous) wrote in auroraexpress2019-08-13 10:48 pm
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The Seventeeth Trial
Who: trialgoers
When: Day 39, evening
Where: The Cat's Zone
[Have you enjoyed your day playing in your new train cars? Great! Because now it's Trial Time.
With the usual alert, the Cat's bar appears in the clearing. There's no "come hither" -- instead, just the pounding of bass from the speakers as the door cracks open. Inside there's flashing party lights, upbeat club music, and high-top tables surrounding a wide dance floor. The stage in the corner is empty except for a single microphone.
At the bar you can get free drinks, but you'll have to contend with the bartender -- a black cat curled up on the shelf between the bottles.
On the bar, and on every table, is a sign showing the rules of this game, titled:
Kiss or Dare
If you want to dress up for the club, or want costumes for daring purposes, there's a dressing room behind the stage with a magic closet. You'll find whatever you like in it, but when the trial ends you can only take home what you're wearing!
Good luck!]
RULES | TURN-IN | THE CAT / DISQUALIFICATION
When: Day 39, evening
Where: The Cat's Zone
[Have you enjoyed your day playing in your new train cars? Great! Because now it's Trial Time.
With the usual alert, the Cat's bar appears in the clearing. There's no "come hither" -- instead, just the pounding of bass from the speakers as the door cracks open. Inside there's flashing party lights, upbeat club music, and high-top tables surrounding a wide dance floor. The stage in the corner is empty except for a single microphone.
At the bar you can get free drinks, but you'll have to contend with the bartender -- a black cat curled up on the shelf between the bottles.
On the bar, and on every table, is a sign showing the rules of this game, titled:
If you want to dress up for the club, or want costumes for daring purposes, there's a dressing room behind the stage with a magic closet. You'll find whatever you like in it, but when the trial ends you can only take home what you're wearing!
Good luck!]
RULES | TURN-IN | THE CAT / DISQUALIFICATION
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Weird ... things? With machines? [ Ghost? ]
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Dumb AI's are ones that are programmed. They can be programmed really well, they can seem like a person almost. But they're always going to have limitations. They can't really grow, they can't break their programming, they will always have walls they can't overcome like a smart AI.
Except....Lopez is a smarky asshole and if he was a smart AI, you wouldn't throw him in the trash. And Freckles was apparently 'malfunctioning' according to the guy we were fighting and I felt it was important to get his programming back and he was just a battle droid.
They should both be dumb AI's. But they were acting out of any programming they should have had. And the fact two were being odd starts to sound like a pattern.
So weird.
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[ HmmmMMMMMMM. ]
I don't know if that's really weird, anyway. I mean, it makes sense, doesn't it? Even if you call them "dumb" AI, they're still extraordinarily complex; they still have the capacity to make judgements and decide on the correct response. Going from that to having opinions and self-awareness isn't too huge of a leap.
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That's the thing, they don't 'make judgements.' They go through a check list of never self changing priorities. Even then, there's a difference between getting self awareness and being a sarcastic, insulting asshole whose also still sticking around.
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[ Rubs her chin. ]
Still ... [ How to put this into words?? ] It still doesn't seem surprising to me. I mean, yeah, machine learning is machine learning, not true intelligence, and it's got limitations. It just ... doesn't seem unreasonable that someday, some computers will overcome that, even if the people who built them didn't intend for it to happen.
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Whether or not that's true, its not a recognized possibility. Its not something that should be happening. Something that's still seen as a malfunction. Which makes it weird when it does, especially around the weird group of soldiers who had someone who was probably a ghost in their number.
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[ She's not sure how much she likes the idea of the possible development of sentience being considered a malfunction, BUT, ]
Well, all I can say is, it's a good thing they've got you as a friend.
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I'm trying, at least. Was not happy at how Locus was treating them.
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Also I dare you to tell me what obaasan means.
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Did the semi-incompetent army rescue you from him, or something?
[ Her lips twitch. ]
Obaa-san means grandma.
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It sounds like a war where no side is really right.
....ah. Definitely need to bully him.