Comic for Monday, April 19th, 2021
Sorry this ran a little late. I’m having some computer difficulty. I think I’ve talked about this before. I really need to replace my computer, but it’s sort of hard right now to buy up-to-date computer things, and I’ve been reluctant to buy already out of date computer parts, especially as even those aren’t cheap right now. But I think I’ve limped along this one about as long as it’s going to go… not entirely sure which part is dying (the answer is probably a combination of A and B and maybe C at this point), but it’s definitely getting to the point where I should have dealt with it months ago.
Anyway, comic!
This is a bit rough, partially for aforementioned reasons and I didn’t want to run too much later, and, as is usually the case when things are late, I moved some things around. That’s not unusual, but typically if I do that + something else goes wrong, that’s how things end up late.
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So is Peter comparing Miko to Dr Mir? Not sure who the ‘last person’ Peter is referring to is. If so, I would think Miko’s response would be even worse than ‘learning from that little sugar freak’.
MIR is who came to my mind.
Just don’t bring Peter with you to the hospital or shopping, or they’ll blow up, too.
Well, OK, the shopping didn’t blow up the last time, but I assume that was a fluke. Roll that die too many times though and it will go boom.
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? When Peter was sending people to various hospitals (Tyler was injured), how many of them ended up blowing up just out of principle?
Look its perfectly fine if she wants to be a goddess of judgement or something. If she wants to keep playing at being a normal person, there may be potential issues
Lorien
“…he has restrictions in place to stop him from wiping out a city, You don’t…”
Peter says “You don’t” like it’s a BAD thing….
Eh. Can we talk about which city before we start passing judgement about what’s good and what’s bad?
Sure.
Except that cities are kind of like Doritos. You can’t crunch just one.
Eventually, it’s the city you care about.
You make a convincing argument, TGape.
Okay, Delta-v. I’m on board. Hand Miko the big red button.
She should be able to hijack SkyHammer from where she is.
This is where I’d offer to buy her some ammunition, but that sounds expensive.
VI miko probably *is* skynet/skyhammer by now….
People tend to go with “well, definitely not the one I am currently standing in” because they are oddly conservative when it comes to things like that….
Hm. Would overwriting the right things fix whatever is wrong with Miko’s body? Though I suppose if it’s genetic, and the copy doesn’t simulate DNA, the wrong proteins would still be produced…
I suspect this contributes to why Miko wouldn’t is not concerned with the meat-puppet getting overwritten, and perhaps is sort of on the side of hoping it does.
I will say that avatar version of Miko is somewhat of a more complicated thing than it might seem – from what could be put together, Mium made it in case he had to back Miko up entirely (as Mium sees it), and Miko uses it to interface with computer systems, as it serves as an interface layer between a fragile human mind and data of computer systems allowing it to be processed more as a human would, it was essentially a digital wrapper for Miko.
VI Mium did something with it to make it essentially serve as Miko’s VI, so to speak; given that VI Mium essentially was the left over data of Mium using a system designed to interface with Miko to run on Ila’s system, this is likely something it understood very well, though why it did this isn’t exactly clear (though potentially just because Miko wanted it to).
I’ve no reason to believe this, but my perception is that DNA is just one expression of Eidos. If Eidos changes in a way that requires a DNA change, and if sufficient skill and power are applied to make a permanent change, then physics and reality hustle to express that change in DNA as well.
How much does reality exert influence on Eidos, and how much does Eidos exert on reality? Not a clue.
I think that people in this environment having DNA is conjecture. What if they just have Eidos and Hyle? Well, in that question, the whole concern is clearly moot.
But I think overall, what matters is, if Eidos works as advertised, however the blueprint for humanity is mapped, Eidos should be able to update it. If Eidos does not work as advertised, even if it’s just Eidos and Hyle, Miko has some problems.
Personally, I have a suspicion that this particular overwrite did have more effects than just the hair, Miko is aware of something she perceives as them, and is grateful for them as she perceives them to be. Her primary concern is that Peter knows how to undo them and is likely to try to get back the original Miko.
That said, it’s anybody’s guess what the *actual* effects were. Maybe it didn’t really change Miko’s body besides the hair and all it really did beyond that was to make Miko think it improved things and made her feel more comfortable with her body because she thinks it was worse. Well, that and removed the tiny part of Miko that would have agreed with Peter that destroying whole cities would be a bad thing.
It is not stated that Peter considers destroying whole cities a bad thing, just that he things that it might be important for some safeguards to avoid it at times.
Less jokingly, I suspect Peter would attempt to do the moral calculus to decide about the city. I don’t think it’d be an automatic, “of course not.”
remember that time they were talking about how killing everyone involved in something is a bad plan. between Peter and Muim. I believe destroying cities would fall into that category and Peter would say no. He can’t exactly tell Miko no like he can Muim.
Absolutely. Which is why it wouldn’t just be a moral calculus but also a pragmatic calculus.
One that would probably veer a lot more easily to “meh, do it” than you might imagine, owing to just how many of those tangential links would happen to also be in the city at the time.
To be fair, it’s still almost certainly going to be “no”, because too many of those links won’t be in the city at the time.
… unless it’s a major holiday for which “everyone” goes to the city.
That said, it’s my impression that Sky Hammer is a weapon designed to help conquer cities, not obliterate them. Biana was willing to use it on the Consul’s office while she, as the director of IDS Corporate Affairs in Malsa, was likely in the same city, and more likely had direct reports who were in the same city.