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Probably. Depends on how close an emulation is, I guess. |
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04-17-2012, 01:39 PM | #55 | |
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I guess I just absorbed bits and pieces of mentions, tried piecing them together, but they came back wrong. Anyway, I realized and admitted that I was wrong, and I think it is time to return to the probability/plausibility topic. |
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04-17-2012, 02:37 PM | #56 |
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Re: Probability of THS scenario - in light of the last 10 years
Shadows and eidolons can both be based on LAIs as well as SAIs. Presumably, a SAI-based shadow can be fairly bright and creative, and can be a pretty good emulation of the source personality; a LAI-based eidolon will come across like a rather obtuse and uncreative actor who's spent weeks learning to impersonate a specific human being.
Ghosts, fragments, and shadows are explained quite clearly on p.TS120; see also p.TS167. These are important terms of art in the Transhuman Space world; anyone who wants to talk about or play in the setting needs to get them right.
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04-17-2012, 02:49 PM | #57 | |
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Eidolons on the other hand seem mostly be a frivolous entertainment thing that you wouldn't want to waste a lot of processing power on. Do you really a need a sapient talking dinosaur to entertain toddlers, or a sapient star of the week to act as your VI, or Napoleon to play a Waterloo simulation against? So I imagine most applications for Eidolons aren't sapient. That's were I was going with my example. If the hypothetical future acedemic me wants to attend a meeting he'll want an SAI shadow. If somebody wants a tutor for my class, that pretends to be me giving my lectures and such, an LAI is fine. I'm still trying to figure out why Vicky thinks Shadows are "sad" and "not talked about much". As far as I can tell they are a commonly used tool in Fifth wave communication. Doesn't one of the vignettes have Copernicus Jones conducting an interview via Shadow? Last edited by sir_pudding; 04-17-2012 at 02:55 PM. |
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Yes, I know Xoxes are illegal. But this isn't a case of runaway infinite multi-copying - those xoxes would be merged back again after returning. |
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What exactly is evil or harmful about making a xox, sending it to some conference on Titan or whatever, getting it back and merging with it? Seems like a victimless crime / sumptuary law to me. |
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