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i’m still in bed with my migraine from yesterday. i’m doing much better (?) but my hands and legs have been shaking for a few hours and i get vertigo when i move. anyway, here’s an audio of me gushing about robots and the writing possibilities, since it’s really the only way i can entertain myself now that tma is over and it hurts to look at my phone. cw: discussion of consent, mention of suicide, and i have the sexiest voice possible

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@ghostrally anyway please let me know what you think, i’m dying to talk about this and will respond when possible

@ghostrally you have some good thinks. i really think the concept of an ai's identity is interesting, because how can one define an individual "self" for reproducible code, no matter how self-aware? does one instantiation of that code have rights that govern what happens to its backups or alternate versions, including those not yet created? even assuming continuous identity like, say, halo ais (sry i don't know much abt transformers specifically) what draws the line between a person and a tool >

@ghostrally esp. when said ai was created specifically to be a tool?

some of my favorite ais in fiction are the geth from mass effect 2 (less so 3...), who don't have a concept of individuality: they're composed of low-level programs that don't have sentience on their own, but have a gestalt awareness and consciousness that grows stronger with numbers. "killing" one program damages a piece of the whole but does not "kill" a "person" per se

@Paravellex aaaaaaa thank you!!! and i LOOOOVE what you said about self in terms of backups and alternate selves, thats one of my favorite ideas to explore!! (thanks homestuck lol) but yeah! what "version" of yourself is yourself, especially if a robot is part of a model or line where there are literally thousands or millions or copies? and when that model gets "recalled?" AAAAAAA THE POSSIBILITIES (also this was a long time ago, but when we played jackbox i really liked your voice too hehe)

@ghostrally yea exactly! they can split into smaller conglororations to mobilize as needed, and they can make backups of their processes as needed so long as they have the hardware space

there's one subfaction whose processes are intrinsically hostile to organics because of their underlying code, and the game gives you the option of either wiping them out or reprogramming that code to remove their hostility. is there consent that can be violated? is it a form of murder anyway?

@ghostrally ME2 doesn't have a clear answer for these questions and your reasoning for choosing one option or the other can be left ambiguous

ME3 retroactively labels the "destroy" option as the "correct" one because they were going to turn evil again anyway so it's better if there are fewer to fight, and the "good" ending of that subplot is you "gifting" the platforms with individuality and thus forcibly overriding how their society operates, which is >:/

@Paravellex ooooohhhhhh my god both of these blow. what are they even trying to say here??

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