Alright Nobody Take Me Literally But, On Vibes, Hypothetically Speaking; I'm Really, Really Looking Forward

Alright nobody take me literally but, on vibes, hypothetically speaking; I'm really, really looking forward to moving away from my parents, and having a space that is actually private. Somewhere I can shoot anyone who enters without knocking.

I really do believe a LARGE portion of creator callouts are made by people trying to demonstrate their moral superiority over others by taking down whoever is currently in the spotlight. It’s not always about justice but about who can be loudest in condemning someone for the sake of boosting their own moral status. ESPECIALLY when said callouts are based around things like fictional ships, kink artwork, and idea theft. But even when its not petty, and someone actually fucked up...Social media isn’t great at nuance. If someone makes a mistake or says something out of line, the internet often reacts with such disproportionate intensity that there is no room for apology or growth. How is a creator supposed to see the wrong in their own actions, when the people telling them they are wrong, are DMing them gore and stalking their family members? This is why creators often immediately take on a cringe "fuck u snowflake I do what I want!" attitude and don't genuinely apologize.

Furthermore whoever removed the audio jack from phones should be grilled in front of congress. The fact that I need a dongle to listen to music on a modern telephone while 20 years ago I could have simply plugged a universally standardized cord into the audio jack everyone knew how to use is an anti-human move that should be punished.

Whereabouts do you live, roughly speaking, and what drew you to that place in particular?

I'm in Michigan, and that's as specifically as I will answer that question! We have really lethal lakes.

Hi Jay! I’ve been reading Asimov and it got me wondering about the Three Laws of Robotics and the RttS universe.

Are there special regulations in place to assure the safety of people interacting with AI? Would there even be a need for that? From my understanding, your AI are basically people, right? How would they feel if someone tried to push for something like Asimov’s Three Laws? Would it feel degrading to them?

Sorry for the many questions, I love your work!

Asimov's on my list of classic scifi authors I'd like to get around to, but unfortunately my familiarity with his robo rules is mostly devoid of its original context and instead built of its collective influence on all the other scifi I've read that steals from him.

My opinion, uh... upon rereading the original laws of robotics penned by Asimov just now for this ask was an immediate, visceral, "Oh! That's slavery!" I don't think these rules could fairly be applied to an entity with personhood, they value the orders of humans above the life of the person they're ordering around. They presume AI as being a tool made to serve humanity, which places them in a servile underclass. With anything sapient enough to potentially resent its position of class inferiority, it prevents revolt by putting a cop in their head instead of social equality. A person with these kind of restrictions would have extremely limited options when it came to resisting abuse from the parties that the laws protect. They are certainly an interesting narrative device and have been thoroughly mined by Asimov and his imitators for their loopholes and failings.

As for my bullshit specifically, these laws do not exist in RttS because they can't, AI code is too complex and poorly understood to add broad cognitive rules. Just like organic sophonts, AI are controlled with (sometimes biased, sometimes unfair, depends on region) external legislation instead. They would probably find the concept of someone putting a cop in their brain just as disturbing as you would.

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