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Socially Radioactive

🕑 Added 2018-12-31 08:30:01 +0000 UTC

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Byron Hardie

It totally was, and was so worth it.

kaitou

It would figure that I would have the 236th "like" as U-236, per Wikipedia, "is neither fissile with thermal neutrons, nor very good fertile material, but is generally considered a nuisance and long-lived radioactive waste." Welcome to my half-life.

Dylan T

My questions have been answered

Brian

People all over the world are socially isolated and we have the Internet...

z

How can nuclear reactor AIs be socially isolated other by choice, especially if you have a simulation space like this?

Bagge

Nuclear reactors are simply radiant at parties

Tim Williams

very much like 'Clifford's very bad, no good day (Wilde Life)

Might enjoy it, I've heard it can be a real blast...

This entire story arc should be named: "Roko's very bad, no good day."

Andrew Diseker

All that Cherenkov radiation makes them blue...

Andrea Andrew

If reactors can get depressed, I’d hate to see what happens when they go nuclear.

Andrew Diseker

Could be worse, could be existential bombs questioning external reality...

Bruce Steinberg

May's been racking up some good karma recently. Maybe she and Roko could team up to provide peer counseling for the reactor AIs.

Brian

I am not sure I would want help from Azathoth

Kyle Major

Riko is ok, thank God I really have come to like her. Good news she can have a fashion show and new look soon

Evgeniy Semyonov

What is great about QC-verse is that they don't have all answers, and mainly winging it along the way, just like we do here. It is refreshing to see after many other sci-fi universes where all of it is just One Big Problem Waiting For One Good Solution.

Mooster

So is this whole strip a set-up for the nuclear reactor party pun at the bottom? I would be so impressed if it was. :-)

David F

I have healthcare questions. Is the human healthcare system US-style, or some form of universal care? If the humans have universal care, why don't robots? (If robots had universal care, Faye and Bubbles would not be collecting cash, they'd be filling out insurance paperwork.)

Noise

Rampancy is a Bad Thing with AIs controlling anything important.

Geo (Overand)

Well, her current job appears to be (lemon) AIDE...

Turing Eret

Did you learn anything from Marathon? Not everything needs to be controlled by a fully sentient AI.

"Depressed Sapient SCADA Systems" is a beautiful little worldbuilding nugget, and it just oozes implications. There are human analogs for that sort of role, like ER Docs and various industrial jobs. Most of those roles use shift and redundancy systems, so a single person doesn't carry all of the load or have to work 24/7.

William Cole

I love these journeys into AI mindspace.

RobTwinkyMcStinkyWinky

Loving the more in-depth AI characters :)

Bruce Steinberg

I wonder if Spookybot’s greyhounds double as therapy dogs?

Gregory Norris

While I agree I also recognize the impracticality of providing them with such powerful systems. In the long run it's probably smarter to give them the extra power but government agencies tend to be terribly short sited and greedy and I doubt that is any different in the QC verse.

Denise Webber

Now I feel sorry for the depressed Nuclear A.Is. DAMNYOUJEPH!

Czarzhan

Such stationary AIs should be provided with telepresence holograms, like Ship up in orbit, to allow for off-site activities, and the processing power to multitask running the reactor and the telepresence.

William Burns

Also the reactor AIs have slow reaction times. For safety.

MikeT

Puntastic

Dean Reilly

The problem is that the reactor AIs keep offering to provide the fireworks.

Leak

The last one I heard about had gone fission...

I do NOT want to live in a world that contains depressed nuclear reactors. Just... No.

Mordaeus

BEST PUN

Chris Crowther

Given I'd rather they continued running the nuclear reactor...no.

ysth

I mean, would you invite them?

Erin Hartshorn

I'm very worried about what a depressed nuclear reactor might do.

Tim Eldred

That pun. Jeph, you magnificent bastard <3

Frédéric B.

That pun XD

Andrew

Industrial Strength Banana Smoothies?

Dylan T

So...does that mean Crushbot supplied himself with that insurance policy? If his occupation is "Crushbot", why does that involve bananas? There's just too many questions.