Exposition For Children
jail bad
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Robots being cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw&feature=emb_logo
"I'm not sure I like you hanging out with all those punk robots." "one of them said you were cool." "I was wrong!"
"oh, punishment! we like punishment!" is a weirdly elegant way of framing humanity's love for hierarchy and othering
Love is a bit inaccurate is more like the humans at the top of the hierarchy and the most inside push that system on the rest of humanity
really curious about the details of robot jail. is there robot prison?
The distinction between jail and prison doesn't really make sense to a large extent. - AIs sent to jail are separated from their bodies or servers, so there's no possibility of escape, and apart from the warehouse(s?) where the bodies are stored, the overall space required is tiny. - The environment that each AI CPU is subjected to can easily be tailored to whether they are pre or post conviction.
I love how someone here complained about "floating eyebrows" and Jeph doubled down on them ❤️
jail real bad
I am sure she would have been a cool fighter jet. Safe, not so much.
IT'S A FIGHTER JET. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
If you're interested in a very different narrative of AI/human relations, read "The Stories of Ibis" by Hiroshi Yamamoto. It had an English release about a decade ago, so should be findable used at a reasonable price. Without spoiling too much, lets just say that most of the issues between us and AI may be our responsibility. "Robopocalypse" by Daniel H. Wilson presents some similar ideas in a different setting.
When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One, by David Gerrold is good, too.
No customers in employee chat. I LIKE that one. :)
I’m sure there are lots of irritating arguments against AIs, like “They don’t have souls” and “they’ll take our jaerbs”, “Humans First!”. Lots of focus on how they are other, unknown, and thus fearful. As immortal, fast learning machines, there’s always an outside chance one or a few could become a bioterrorist and 3D print a mega pandemic virus. Tell me it’s never at least crossed Corpse Witch’s cynical mind. Often horror premises are “what if something that wasn’t human acted as cruelly and viscously as humans act to each other?” If Yay dedicated all their resources to wiping out humanity in a surprise attack, how would that go?
It's absolutely terrifying, and that tension between their humanity and their ability to rapidly outpace us makes for really fuckin' interesting narrative, hence people constantly hitting that super rich well up for ideas. It's a fascinating lens to explore ethics through.
Hmm....do AI's view speech as a type of aural public chat/ forum?
During COVID I've been doing much more in-car-ceration. That's a synonym for getting food at a drive-through, right?
Ouch.
Well, that was...surprisingly tactful.
Rehabilitation, not incarceration!
Hmm yes... but there are subject that can’t be rehabilitated... there must be a serious thought on how and why things happen.
The main problem with prison reform is that prison, like most punishments, is there because people want to see criminals suffer. And when that's your priority, you'll be less inclined to ask if it actually helps decrease crime.
I think there's also a second issue that our prisons are so far from being the correction system that we were sold on that it feels like we'd need a revolutionary approach, and most people just won't be open to such a thing.
May is an employee?
May is Sam's assistant. Didn't ya see 4423? She reported for duty and everything. Even got a promotion on her first gig!
Haven't updated the copyright date yet eh?
these were drawn last year. Jeph showed us the timelapses.
Was it ever said what May did to go to jail???
Steal a bunch of money in an attempt to become a fighter jet
All I can contribute is: I wish I could've been cool enough in high school to wear a vest like Sam's.
May being accidentally good with kids is such a great storyline.
i think it's more "May being accidentally good with Sam specifically" but yes great storyline
Rehabilitation is better for society than punishment.
And the horrific way we run our prisons force people into gangs for self-protection. The thirst for punishment breeds more crime.
Lawmakers: "Other people getting punished makes us feel good!" ... "What do you mean, I need to be punished for my own criminal acts? What are you, high?!" ... "You need to be punished for that."
I'm just digging the abolitionist talk around here
All jail bad. There's so few people I'd actually feel justified putting there. And punishment always feels like its for everyone but the one being punished...
Not all jail is bad. But there is FAR TOO MUCH jail. And not-enough/too-much punishment. Too many "criminals" spending years behind bars for petty crimes that prevent them from being rehabilitate and ensure they will contribute to be criminal when they're eventually released, and too many Hard Core Criminals being off with a slap on the wrist or "life sentences" where we pay for them to live in prison for half a century or more instead of taking them out behind the courthouse and shooting them once they've been convicted beyond a shadow of a doubt of rape, pedophilia or cold blooded murder...
That's actually rather well-expressed exposition.
So wait, why do _humans_ need their own special jail?
Because AI jail is less a jail than it is a massive server farm with some *really* fucked up coding to make it seriously suck. May didn't start off with a body after all, she was just stuck in the virtual evil sim of AI Prison.
AI are used to subnet private chats Lololol
One we saw last week. And overall, I do like the interplay between May and Sam.
So cool.