Socially Radioactive

It would figure that I would have the 236th "like" as U-236, per Wikipedia, "is neither fissile with thermal neutrons, nor very good fertile material, but is generally considered a nuisance and long-lived radioactive waste." Welcome to my half-life.

My questions have been answered

How can nuclear reactor AIs be socially isolated other by choice, especially if you have a simulation space like this?

Nuclear reactors are simply radiant at parties

If reactors can get depressed, I’d hate to see what happens when they go nuclear.

May's been racking up some good karma recently. Maybe she and Roko could team up to provide peer counseling for the reactor AIs.

Riko is ok, thank God I really have come to like her. Good news she can have a fashion show and new look soon

What is great about QC-verse is that they don't have all answers, and mainly winging it along the way, just like we do here. It is refreshing to see after many other sci-fi universes where all of it is just One Big Problem Waiting For One Good Solution.

So is this whole strip a set-up for the nuclear reactor party pun at the bottom? I would be so impressed if it was. :-)

I have healthcare questions. Is the human healthcare system US-style, or some form of universal care? If the humans have universal care, why don't robots? (If robots had universal care, Faye and Bubbles would not be collecting cash, they'd be filling out insurance paperwork.)

Did you learn anything from Marathon? Not everything needs to be controlled by a fully sentient AI.

"Depressed Sapient SCADA Systems" is a beautiful little worldbuilding nugget, and it just oozes implications. There are human analogs for that sort of role, like ER Docs and various industrial jobs. Most of those roles use shift and redundancy systems, so a single person doesn't carry all of the load or have to work 24/7.

I love these journeys into AI mindspace.

Loving the more in-depth AI characters :)

I wonder if Spookybot’s greyhounds double as therapy dogs?

Now I feel sorry for the depressed Nuclear A.Is. DAMNYOUJEPH!

Such stationary AIs should be provided with telepresence holograms, like Ship up in orbit, to allow for off-site activities, and the processing power to multitask running the reactor and the telepresence.

Also the reactor AIs have slow reaction times. For safety.

Puntastic

The problem is that the reactor AIs keep offering to provide the fireworks.

BEST PUN

I mean, would you invite them?

That pun. Jeph, you magnificent bastard <3

That pun XD

So...does that mean Crushbot supplied himself with that insurance policy? If his occupation is "Crushbot", why does that involve bananas? There's just too many questions.

When life gives you Lemon, make lemonade!