Comic for Monday, Nevember 9th, 2020
If it’s not clear what they are talking about in panel one, certain units of Mium are capable communicated with other parts of his system extremely fast. If, for example, the new prototype had an Eidos card installed, it would be able to transmit data extremely quickly back to the lab in large quantities such that it would be difficult to distingusis from it being physical connected to the system in close proximity. Miko is realizing that if the prototype had this extremely fast connection, it would’ve been possible for them to not realize it wasn’t physically connected to the lab system.
David, for those that may not remember the name, is the person that was leading the group that attempted to assassinate the Consul. Peter seems to be plotting to use them as barginnig chips with the IDS, though how is, as of yet, unclear.
There is a reason that Mium is appearing with the Orange/Blue version of the symbol here, despite this being the Avon Lab (where Mium frequently appeared as the grey version of the symbol), and that’s because this is not quite the same Mium, given the Miko terminated that version, this version has been recopied back to the system from Peter’s version, which has the more up-to-date colorful logo.
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Peter’s priority list:
1. Rogue AI (for unknown values of rogue)
2. His girlfriend
3. Interdimensional warfare
I can’t tell how much of this is Peter’s apathy to people who get themselves into trouble, vs just how scary Kally is.
If we look into the future and see this comic when it’s finished up in 2036, for lack of a better word, I think we’ll see that Peter got that priority list correct. Not that the AI was necessarily rogue, just where it needed to be considered if it had.
Just to be clear, I used a random number generator to come up with that year, rather than any possible future sight ability that I may or may not have. However, I will admit that I tossed out the first two values, as 2095 seemed like it was way too ambitious and 2020 has already come and gone.
Is it wrong that I would totally choose the “correct every incorrect assumption” option?
Ignorance is bliss… BUT if you could CHOOSE ignorance or knowledge, which would you choose?
I would go with setting some parameters (for instance “only correct assumptions where they have a material impact on what you know of our future plans”)
I’m with David on this one. Many existing systems, biological, computer, human, exist with assumptions that are either flat out wrong, or have changed dramatically since inception, without the system redesigned.
For instance if you believe that disease is caused by tiny demons, but also believe the demons are spread through sneezes, contact, etc, and that rubbing alcohol kills demons, how much does it matter that someone else calls them viruses?
If you believe you can sense things at a distance, but the reality is that your brain merely processes the photo signals received by the eyes…?
It matters a great deal, because that other person is *wrong*, and they *don’t* understand what they’re *dealing* with. Also, those aren’t demons, they’re demon bits. The demon is the entire mass.
For example, Xor!th;La$#zig-+ath, who you all know as SARS-Cov-2, has gained *immense* power in this realm because of this point of ignorance.
Unfortunately, I’ve no idea how to pronounce that particular name, however, so I’m not in any more position to deal with that than the rest of you. Just remember, wear your PPE in public and stuff as if the disposition of your soul is at stake… because it is.
I want to pick “Correct incorrect assumptions when necessary”. Then my two problems are fine-tuning what qualifies for “necessary”, and “how to make the computer sound sarcastic when appropriate”. 🙂
This comic had been up for 3 days and only 11 comments? That’s it, I’m using the nuclear option. Again.
The newer logo is orange and blue. We know that while Past resides in Palindra (or Kor’s World, I still haven’t figured out the timestamps), he is familiar with American Politics. And yes in 2020 I think that gets capitalized.
Clearly we know what orange stands for. Clearly we know what blue stands for. Let’s discuss what the orange and blue logo means, and how it is that Past has been prepping us for this for YEARS!
That’s not enough!?! Alright. Then no matter who claims what, half of you are delusional, and the other half are paranoid.
Discuss.
Ahhhh, remember the good old days? Back when Mium would tell Aaron to cut off his arm to remove a tracking system? And he would!
Good times, good times.
I just realized that Peter is physically at Avon. Presumably to pick up Miko’s meat sack while she still has her conscience uploaded to lab 5. Meanwhile Mir is – sleeping or off threatening Ryn Koko ?
Kally & Naomi Might not be the ones likely to get into trouble.
Sorry. The computer died. Fortunately, it was just finishing up a backup. Unfortunately, that means I’m now relegated to using the keyboard which has been bathed in various flavors of sugar water… which I finally managed to locate.
I wonder by what logic Peter thinks that Kally+Naomi is less likely to get into trouble than separate?
Naomi acts as the conscience for Team Peter. In the past Kally was Team Peter’s firepower.
Firepower and a sort of rational guiding hand? In Peter’s world that’s probably as close as you get to safety.
But yeah, I hear you. Sounds like a very 2020 sort of compromise.
It’s not “less likely to get into trouble,” but “less likely to quickly get into trouble that requires Peter’s attention immediately.”
Add Ila to the mix and they’ll be able to get into trouble, out of trouble, back in, and out a second time before Peter has time to intervene.
Or need. Which is the important part of that equation.
I am pretty sure Naomi+Kally won’t get into noticeably MORE trouble than just Naomi on her own…
More of the resulting wreckage will be on fire though.
While Panel 4 is amusing, it also shows the limitations of the different AI nicely. Miko can run on the computers and it can let her do some fairly inhuman feats, but is no where near MYMs level of multitasking, where it’s impossible to tell that he’s spamming Miko with “terrabyes of trashtalk” as he calmly answers questions like he always does.
…Also explains why Ila prefers to verbally bicker with him, it’s impossible to keep up otherwise if he’s not limiting himself.
Mium is likely “cheating” and using a prepared database to draw from rather than calculating arguments in real time. Being attached to the meat puppet way of thinking, virtual Miko hasn’t caught on yet.
But that is NOT cheating: that is HOW YOU WIN ALL ARGUMENTS. Pre-prepared garden paths of logic to lead unsuspecting noobs down.
If you have to think of the argument/answer: then it’s not an argument: it’s brainstorming.
I’m with Westley on this one. It’s even the same database Mium uses for normal arguments. It’s just… some of the filters off.
(It’s not all filters off, because that’s how you lose arguments.)
Panel 5: Should that be “time *to* move to the next priority…”?
Also, panel 4: “*too* many new invectives”
… man, we were privy to Mium’s thoughts and so told almost right from the start that Ila was running on Mium’s system, and yet the implications were as lost on me as they were on Peter and Miko …
Fixed, thanks 🙂
Not only did I chuckle and grin at the dialog in panels three and four but also at the grin you probably had while writing it! Very good!
I chuckled at panel four and was left with an irreversible grin afterwards… man, this comic matches my sense of humor *perfectly*.