[RFC][META][Philosophical] AIs Based on Characters

[robkelk]

Also, from the flipside, do the parents get a booklet too on how to handle their new cyber-child? How do you, as J. Random fen deal with the realisation that the computer you were planning to use as the central processor your life will depend on now has the personality of Kamina? Perhaps despite your best efforts. How do you nurture and develop a being who, by their very nature, is probably tied to a specific cabin or vehicle. How do you drive that vehicle and use it, knowing it's a living creature?

So far, the vehicular-based AIs described fall into three groups:

• non-sophont-type intelligences (e.g. The Boys at Hephaestus)
  
• already-adult-human intelligences
  
• Gina
  

The first group one would treat the same way one treats a favoured pet. The second group one would treat the same way one treats any other adult. The third group... well, Gina can tell you herself how she'd prefer to be treated.

As for an unintentional Awakening... must think on that, too.
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Rob Kelk
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