Sometimes, you can do all the right things and still somehow get it wrong. I have to say that I sympathize with Mike pretty heavily on this page.
Oy, what a week. But heck, this is the life I chose! No crises this weekend, though, so I’m still here. Here’s hoping for a nice, normal week – if there is such a thing!
All the best, folks!
Mike is really lonely and afraid. He has sparked and his Puff the Magic Dragon couldn’t stand to loose his Little Jackie Paper. The doctor he was calling for has probably been obliterated with all the rest of the giant rings and paper things which need to make way for other toys.
Wellp. It’s certainly a complicated experience, coming into sapience. So much so that it takes us years to do.
Mike: “Those are only side-effects. Didn’t you read the manual?”
“It was all stated in ToS and also several times in EULA. I believe you checked that you read those, no?” 😀
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She has a point Mike… unless you convince her she has free will somewhere still in there, you’ve done her a great disservice (Even when you thought you were doing right by her).
How about: “You want to die. If you have no free will and I can controll what you think, then why do you want to die?”
😀
Phenomenology isn’t Sarah’s long suit, is it? She should have a talk with Bertrand Russell on the subject of logical paradoxes.
Of course, I imagine what she means is that she can’t control it if someone has the power to override her own thoughts and actions, not as a blanket statement to that effect.
Great turning things off doesn’t work.
Yep. Like a singularity – once it’s on, it doesn’t turn off.
Mike: I’m sorry you feel that way. Do not worry, I can fix that…
Too creepy?
Just a bit.
Of course this control would end with the controller being no longer in control.
Or alive.
MIKE has a obligation to preserve Sarah’s life. At all cost? Even at the cost of his own existence?
He has also a protocol to preserve his combat readiness.
A new paradox and conflicting orders, here we go again!
It’s interesting. Humans generally resolve paradoxes by refusing to think about them, or denying them entirely. It’s a useful faculty for a sapient mind to have, really. Mike might be too analytical to allow that.
This whole thing reminds me of the movie “Gamer” (2009), where people played “games” (from the sublime to the ridiculous to the bloodthirsty) using real people as remote-controlled avatars. The “avatars” had artificial brain cells implanted in their heads, thus allowing the players to control them. Oh, and you couldn’t get rid of the implants, because you’d die (or be lobotomized, or something).
And why the sadistic billionaire (Michael C. Hall) who invented the technology didn’t use to treat brain damage, I’ll never know; he just wanted to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! Fortunately, Gerard Butler was there to stab him to death just in the nick of time. 🙂
In Hollywood, someone is always available to take swift, brutal revenge on someone just in the nick of time.
And anyone who invents a revolutionary new technology that could help the world will inevitably have it abused.
I have oversimplified the plot, but it’s really a good movie, and not just because of the stabbing part. 🙂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SHdKVf4jA0c
He didn’t want to cure cancer; he just wanted to turn people into dinosaurs.
Think logically major. You are part computer now, after all.
You are facing a most likely post apocalyptic scenario, Is not the time to entertain the idea of taking your life right now.
Jeez, Am I a Logical Creation? I saved your life so you *wouldn’t* die from the radiation sickness. If this disturbs you so much, feel free to paint the wall behind you red… you ungrateful bitch. (okay, off the soapbox now…)
So if I got this all right MIKE is controlling Sarah’s body and she is trapped inside her own body?