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The Arachne System (SPIDERLIV 3)

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Oh, is this the dark mirror episode?

Evil AI with meatsack human assistant?

[X] Check the message with your tech sense. Don't get distracted.
-[X] Knock on the door and say hi.

I smell a nemesis. What a milestone! Such personal growth in a superhero career to get your very own nemesis.
 
[X] Check the message with your tech sense. Don't get distracted.
-[X] Knock on the door and say hi.
 
So like, there are maybe a lot of things I should feel about the Amazon drones, and I should appreciate how dangerous this villain likely is if they can msg our phone. But all I can think about is the idea of a little drone in a gangster hat going up to people and being like "this is a robbery see, now stick em up, see" and that amuses me.

[X] Try to talk to the system through your tech sense.
 
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clockworkchaos said:
So like, there are maybe a lot of things I should feel about the Amazon drones, and I should appreciate how dangerous this villain likely is if toy can msg our phone. But all I can think about is the idea of a little drone in a gangster hat going up to people and being like "this is a robbery see, now stick em up, see" and that amuses me.

[X] Try to talk to the system through your tech sense.
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The robots, by the way, are somewhat like this fucking thing.

 
If it wasn't 1 AM I'd be furiously writing a thousand words on Why Walking Is Hard.

(my job description for several years amounted to "try and fail to replicate the physical capabilities of an energetic one-year-old". walking is super hard. we're not just short on algorithms, we need better materials and sensors and actuators too.)
 
Vebyast said:
If it wasn't 1 AM I'd be furiously writing a thousand words on Why Walking Is Hard.

(my job description for several years amounted to "try and fail to replicate the physical capabilities of an energetic one-year-old". walking is super hard. we're not just short on algorithms, we need better materials and sensors and actuators too.)
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Non of us are going to disagree with that. This is obviously an impressive improvement from other robots. We are objecting specifically to 'like humans' being applies to a form with digitigrade legs.
Its a very impressive walker. But its not like us.
 
Vebyast said:
If it wasn't 1 AM I'd be furiously writing a thousand words on Why Walking Is Hard.

(my job description for several years amounted to "try and fail to replicate the physical capabilities of an energetic one-year-old". walking is super hard. we're not just short on algorithms, we need better materials and sensors and actuators too.)
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But we demand our benevolent AI overlords!

How can they oppress us and make our bodies into giant bioelectricity batteries if they can't even walk yet?

:V
 
Raiseth said:
But we demand our benevolent AI overlords!

How can they oppress us and make our bodies into giant bioelectricity batteries if they can't even walk yet?

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They could always just hijack human bodies. Hijack information systems, changing the orders/instructions people get to new ones which fit the AI's goals, and then cover up the traces.

Assemble an infrastructure, gather materials, even, perhaps, eventually taking control of surgical facilities to implant cyberware which will hijack the human body directly, rather than through intermediary IT systems.

There are a lot of options available, if we presume a powerful AI does or can exist- which, obviously, they do in the context of this work if nothing else.
 
[x] Try to talk to the system through your tech sense.
 
[X] Check the message with your tech sense. Don't get distracted.
-[X] Knock on the door and say hi.
 
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Unexpected Input
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    • It took just a moment's concentration to read the message off the phone as its owner pulled it out to look.

    "Unexpected Input" it read simply. You tapped the phone's camera and got a picture of a skinny, sharp-faced man in maybe his mid-forties with a mop of hair atop his head and a pair of glasses. You recognized him instantly from your internship: Phillip Grant, the head of the Computer Engineering at Stark Industries. Except he looked like he hadn't slept or showered in a month.

    "No... nononono, not again..." he muttered into the phone, before it slipped into his pocket and the camera went black. "It's happening again." You tracked his phone as he moved to what you assumed was a staircase, then you hopped down off the roof to the side of the building.

    You should say hi.

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    [ ] As Olivia Octavius​
    [ ] As Arachne​
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    Sorry for the short one, the vote kinda demands a further option.​
     
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    • [X] As Arachne

    How would Olivia the intern know to find him at this random address out of the blue? I figure at the very least, Olivia showing up tells him she's some kind of shady hacker or something.
     
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