Quote:Cobalt Greywalker wrote:I can see a handbook, or the electronic equivalent being helpful for a lot of AIs when they wake up, probably best written by some of the older AIs themselves. Maybe Buckaroo would be a good driving force behind that.
Although it does suggest that it may be a good idea to have a 'So you've just Awakened and an A.I.' book that is given to newly Awakened A.I.s to help them decide how to interact with the physical world.
One thing I would like to ask is, why do all the AIs have to be echo's or instances of characters/people from other universes[0]? I know transfictionality is an established fact of canon, but why can't Fenspace be the 'origin' universe for some AIs?
The AI, Aristotle, I made up to keep F in line for the first few seasons isn't intended to be an instance or expy of any fictional character. And while I have no objections to echoes of her existing across the multiverse, I tend to think of the Fenspace Ari' as the original. For however much the concept of original is worth in a setting with transfictionality.
[0] Note, I don't think you all are necessarily saying that AIs have to be this way, but I do think it could be interpreted in that manner.
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