blasto, meet official opinions on self-replicating minions

[peterxy]

The PRT catches wind of a strange increase in disappeared domestic animals in the downtown area. Given that the people who live there are the rich and powerful, this is clearly a problem that needs to be investigated and solved immediately. The PRT, of course, agrees that this is of utmost importance, and not just because of precedent about mass abductions of pets, of course not, why would you think that, they are so very worried about Fido, even Scion recognizes the merits of rescuing lost pets.

(Lorica's asked to maybe keep a few more eyes there than she has been.)

Comments

[thinkering]

"Is your model good enough to detect sarcasm?"

[mrglam]

"Yes, I was playing along."

[thinkering]

She snorts and starts shucking armor.

[mrglam]

"Oh look, you do know what I'd meant."

[thinkering]

"We're going to compare fingerprints, right? I can't do that in armor."

[mrglam]

...he sporfles.

[thinkering]

"I'm clockwise swirls!" She shoves her hand in his face to demonstrate and push him over onto his bed.

[mrglam]

He's pushed over! "You know, it never occurred me to look?" he says.

[thinkering]

So she has a look at his hands. A look, a nibble, they're so similar.

[mrglam]

Ah, yes, so similar.

"You have a funny way of comparing," he comments lightly.

[thinkering]

"Maybe my fingerprints are vanilla and yours are chocolate, how am I supposed to know if I don't check?" Nibble.

[mrglam]

"You're right, silly me, we should determine this with science!"

[thinkering]

Science ensues.

[mrglam]

This is the kind of experiment he can get behind.

[thinkering]

Mmm, prepositions.

[mrglam]

Rrrreally? He really likes those.

[thinkering]

Science and prepositions and a Turing test well done.

[mrglam]

An overall successful day! Followed by cuddling.

"Do you suppose your bot will ever become good enough to fool me?"

[thinkering]

"Maybe? I'm not sure how to actually fix the thing you noticed."

[mrglam]

"Well, the better the model it has of you the easier its job will be? But I'm not sure it can have a good enough model that's not tantamount to just simulating you, and..."

[thinkering]

"I don't think it's going to wake up as me. The way it produces me-responses isn't very much like simulation."

[mrglam]

"How does it?"

[thinkering]

"...Well, it's not simulating my thought process, anyway, it's emulating what I've said in the past and consulting what it knows I know."

[mrglam]

"Hmm, that'd explain it, I suppose."

[thinkering]

"How?"