In addition to the difference between core personality and angel programming there is the fact that her core personality almost certainly uses high adaptation algorithms to facilitate her ability to simply exist in an extremely uncontrolled environment.
Normally CentComm's angels/black angels are run under her direct supervision - But CeCi is made more autonomous, since CentComm doesn't have direct network contact with her.
So CeCi have a neural net more akin to a regular android, albeit somewhat upgraded. Plus some not-off-the-shelf hardware, and some unusual hardware ... not to mention she probably have some highly illegal hardware as well, I bet. :)
Mommy does have some explaining but she's already got a good start. They killed because their opponents would have killed and done other things before during and after. many humans are not like that but there are those that will not listen to reason or logic. A driod will kill only if programed for the task ands them only under certain conditions. Normally functioning robots and Ai would never select that option as it is a waste of resources and other non lethal options are always available.
Humans notoriously do not follow reason or logic. Their programing is far more basic and primal. Where a driod or AI in .1 micro seconds develop 10000 options to a lethal situation and human will generate only two. Depending on the demeanor of the human one will always become the default selection. Predators will always fight, prey will always run.
Neither Dolly or Ceci fully realize they are predators. This isn't a bad thing in the long run as long as the predator learns to control that selection. They both acted as humans under imminent attack would act. Just the perspectives are different. Dolly will select fighting as she has been a protector and has learned the tells from a human about to attack. Like a good human predator she played out the attack in her head so she had a running plan to fight back.
Ceci's was more instinct, but slightly different as she seemed to be one step ahead of her own programming. The subroutines were still pareing down the decision tree while she had made her selection and was force loading applications to fulfil her selection. Like a human needing to load the gun before shooting. I would bet from here she will be ready for the fight at the same time as Mommy. Mommy was ready and she wasn't and she wants mommy to be proud of her...baby..
I know blah blah blah, but I rather like the sound of my own typing.
"The subroutines were still pareing down the decision tree while she had made her selection and was force loading applications to fulfil her selection."
I can imagine the pull down options and menus - like Arnie saw inside his cybernetic brain from the original Terminator movie.
all this does is make me want to just walk over and hug Ceci and tell her everything is okay. That's she's not evil she did what she had to And clean her up
You can distract her from the morality by directly invoking her looting interface, then invoke her level up interface. Make sure she picks a good skill!
I'm hoping this will never be the case, but the minute Ceci inflicts mortal violence upon someone and doesn't feel a twinge of doubt and revulsion, that's the day she becomes truly frightening. And not in a good way.
Dragin, that's the day she becomes Kali, at that point it's Goddess help the universe because between them they would be able to wipe out half of humanity.
Methinks Dolly (and by extension, CentComm) is running into one of the big problems with using 'smart weapons'. If you don't make them smart enough, they aren't worth the effort. If you make them too smart, they start asking questions that really don't have comfortable answers. In the extreme form of the latter, you get a HAL-9000 style problem...not a good thing in an armed and combat-programmed platform.
Actually in the extreme you would get a weapon that would either kill everything because nothing was free of guilt or due to the inability to sort right from wrong would decide it was malfunctioning, at fault and therefore must cease to function and implode.
On the previous page someone commented that,
"There is no switch for emotions, no bypass subroutine."
That's probably true for Dolly. But this page seems to suggest Ceci's case is otherwise. It looks like her Black Angel special upgrades, like her extra CPU/voices, can and do switch off some of her emotions. When the bouncer and bartender pulled weapons on Dolly, we saw that Ceci's mods can even bypass her free will if her primary objective (Dolly) is threatened.
Indeed, I doubt the moral codes in a Mil-Sec android is nearly as strict as most androids. They have to be able to injure or kill when necessary and they can't let stuff like emotions interfere with their duty or even self preservation.
But then, it sounds like Black Angels were never intended to have free will, either.
Yes, they had the bad luck of attracting a motivated angel of retribution!
[Interesting and significant that CeCi has any conflict at all...]
But a good solid "Do unto others as they would do to you" would fit well in this scenario.
That sounds very interesting. Would you mind elaborating a bit more?
So CeCi have a neural net more akin to a regular android, albeit somewhat upgraded. Plus some not-off-the-shelf hardware, and some unusual hardware ... not to mention she probably have some highly illegal hardware as well, I bet. :)
Seems like she was rolling the dice a bit.
[RE: Illegal hardware; I bet CeCi has a salt shaker tucked away somewhere!]
If so, where did she have the extra stashed?
Humans notoriously do not follow reason or logic. Their programing is far more basic and primal. Where a driod or AI in .1 micro seconds develop 10000 options to a lethal situation and human will generate only two. Depending on the demeanor of the human one will always become the default selection. Predators will always fight, prey will always run.
Neither Dolly or Ceci fully realize they are predators. This isn't a bad thing in the long run as long as the predator learns to control that selection. They both acted as humans under imminent attack would act. Just the perspectives are different. Dolly will select fighting as she has been a protector and has learned the tells from a human about to attack. Like a good human predator she played out the attack in her head so she had a running plan to fight back.
Ceci's was more instinct, but slightly different as she seemed to be one step ahead of her own programming. The subroutines were still pareing down the decision tree while she had made her selection and was force loading applications to fulfil her selection. Like a human needing to load the gun before shooting. I would bet from here she will be ready for the fight at the same time as Mommy. Mommy was ready and she wasn't and she wants mommy to be proud of her...baby..
I know blah blah blah, but I rather like the sound of my own typing.
lalverson
I can imagine the pull down options and menus - like Arnie saw inside his cybernetic brain from the original Terminator movie.
did you not read the disclaimer when you took the job?
Offcourse, she can't use the Cod Pieces for anything.
Having a conscience is a good thing.
We Cut people down in GTA and ran them over in Skyrim. :)
But all the new pages I caught up on are amazing! And I feel so bad for these two; they only did what they had to do to survive.
"There's⦠not?"
"There's nothing wrong with garroting a man with his own small intestine CeCi."
You're allright..
You're allright..
You'r..........
!!!! OMFG !!!!
Bad Andy ! BAD ANDY !!
THAT'S NOT ALLRIGHT !!
*brainbleach*
o.O
AHHHHHHUGH!!! thats soo wrong .. but so funny..
Also, eating a burger is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get. XD
Dang, that's some serious security.
*(When they stop asking questions...)
trust me if she was upholding the law NO one would break it cause it would make her frown
"There is no switch for emotions, no bypass subroutine."
That's probably true for Dolly. But this page seems to suggest Ceci's case is otherwise. It looks like her Black Angel special upgrades, like her extra CPU/voices, can and do switch off some of her emotions. When the bouncer and bartender pulled weapons on Dolly, we saw that Ceci's mods can even bypass her free will if her primary objective (Dolly) is threatened.
Indeed, I doubt the moral codes in a Mil-Sec android is nearly as strict as most androids. They have to be able to injure or kill when necessary and they can't let stuff like emotions interfere with their duty or even self preservation.
But then, it sounds like Black Angels were never intended to have free will, either.