Ideas for Anti Robot Technology

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Predatory insects have more 'awareness' than NUs. NU's are automata. Their behavior can be fairly complicated if the situation has an answer in their programming, but that's all they can do. That's why the Z-minds rarely field NUs without either remote control or AU supervision.

Now, the AU killbots are quite a different story.

If they lack Indecisiveness then we can assume they are programmed with adequate decision trees especially for stuff that normally requires IQ 1.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Not by default. The basic default RoS has no magic, superpowers, or psi, though it notes that there are ways those can be introduced, and cautions against introducing the ones that can turn into a curbstomp defeat for the robots.

Ignoring the OP's specific scenario in favor of a purist approach seems less useful.

[kdtipa]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Not by default. The basic default RoS has no magic, superpowers, or psi...

I think there's a post... there it is...

Originally Posted by Boomerang

In our current campaign one of the characters is a gadgeteer within a team of superheroes, so ideas can be as realistic or crazy as you like.

I think the original poster is running a combo RoS and Supers campaign.

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by kdtipa

I think there's a post... there it is...



I think the original poster is running a combo RoS and Supers campaign.

Fair enough, I misread your point.

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

If they lack Indecisiveness then we can assume they are programmed with adequate decision trees especially for stuff that normally requires IQ 1.

Sure...to the degree the programmers (i.e. the Z-minds and AUs) could foresee such things. You can't trick an NU with trivial things, or a Kirk speech. But if you force/trick it into a situation not covered by its previous programming, it's fully possible it'll do something self-destructively stupid because that's all it's programming covers. But the NUs are only safe from being tricked by exploiting their mindless nature if their programmers could make battle plans that survive contact with the enemy.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Sure...to the degree the programmers (i.e. the Z-minds and AUs) could foresee such things. You can't trick an NU with trivial things, or a Kirk speech. But if you force/trick it into a situation not covered by its previous programming, it's fully possible it'll do something self-destructively stupid because that's all it's programming covers.

Two humans running in opposite directions seems trivial to me. It might not be trivial to the Keystone Kops but that is probably a major tone-shift for RoS.

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Two humans running in opposite directions seems trivial to me. It might not be trivial to the Keystone Kops but that is probably a major tone-shift for RoS.

Nobody said anything about 2 humans running in opposite directions that I saw.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

Nobody said anything about 2 humans running in opposite directions that I saw.

Originally Posted by starslayer

Humans can therefore jam dumbot hunter and have two targets of equal importance separate away from it, leaving it paralyzed with indecision

This is the example Anthony was characterizing as "cinematically dumb" and which I pointed out is something that IQ 1 insects can handle fine, and therefore is the example you appear to be defending.

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

This is the example Anthony was characterizing as "cinematically dumb" and which I pointed out is something that IQ 1 insects can handle fine, and therefore is the example you appear to be defending.

I wasn't defending that one. I was defending the point that the robots are not as intelligent as humans on average.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2

I wasn't defending that one. I was defending the point that the robots are not as intelligent as humans on average.

I don't think anyone was arguing that an IQ < 10 robot isn't less intelligent than a human on average; this is a truism.