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Veronica is only annoying and regards androids as people. Connie's former supervisor, on the other hand, was a humanocentric asshole who took every opportunity to make her life hell. From her perspective, it's probably nice to have all that ire directed at someone else for a change. She might also think that letting Veronica vent now will calm her down some. I have my doubts...that woman seems to have the energy of a hyperactive child on a sugar rush.
Of course a good argument (discussion) has its charms. Connie must have gotten a little satisfaction (at least to begin with) out of holding her own against the Expert* Doctor.
[I'm pretty sure she knows there is an autopilot. She's being android polite!]
*(Of course they are all from out-of-town at the moment.)
Most ships have a "drive-brain" however its still safer to have a pilot watching things. unless you have a REALLY good Drive brain. and Connie, may not have activated it.
But if she knew the Duct tape was close at hand it would have been different! Hey! I don't care what century it is, damn stuff is still probably required in the Emergency tool kit.
and yes .. its STILL Duck-tape.. ok its suppose to be called Duct-tape but its called "Duck-Tape" lingual drift and all...and no one even knows what a "Duck" is hardly...
I bet Veronica does. I can just see it...Veronica: "if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck, then it's probably a duck." Connie: "What's a duck?"
Actually, both are right. The product is Duct Tape (originally designed to patch HVAC ducting). The major brand is Duck Tape!! As they say during afternoon programing, "Now you Know!"
This is the point where Connie says "Well, I don't really need sleep, and it's always better to have someone intelligent keeping an eye on Dr. Grumpy anyway" :D
I think based on discussions taking the entire human population in and around new troy . the ratio is 51% andriod to 49 percent human and a smaller sub percentage of "other" that would be Luna personelle ( who are slightly apart from humans and Epiptyes maybe 5 or 10 individuals in the whole city
correct.. there is only 1 AI in new troy.. Cent-Comm and advanced robots and "synthetic intelligences" like drive brains and other bots do not count as beings.. they have no emotions or care about anything .. and consume nothing but parts and electricty..
Almost every device in new troy has some sort of "intelligence"
Several thousand years in the future :
And so, on the 3.14th day of the 21st rotation, the Reverse Master Switcher brought the attention of his second semester techies, the 4th gospel of the Centcomm.
RMS : "And so mote it be, or something like that, using an archaic notation that noone else use anymore - that the 8.245 million was mixed in a ratio of 51% human and 49 % android, and a smaller sub percentage of .. other."
The techies ohh'ed and ahh'ed and made three-quarter rotations of their third digit.
One techie spoke up - "but Reverse Master, what is a human ?"
RMS : "According to the Second Verse of the Tokyo Rose Rant, it was one of the main ingredients in making smoothies that would taste good with Girl Scout Cookies!"
Several more three-quarter rotations of the third digits happened, and even a few 3/5ths rotations happened.
The little techie asked again "the ones with real Girl Scouts in them ?"
RMS : "yes"
A 2.8 kilo volt shock moved trough the crowd of techies and one even rebooted.
"And that," intoned the RMS, "is why the 4th gospel of the Centcomm is so important. For the doggie that smokes salmons and the Tokyo Rose that Rants about everything ... says so."
And everyone agreed.
Centcomms words were indeed the holy gospels of the ancient random access memory.
-----oOOo------
And none of them knew, that in the ancients times, the Tokyo Rose had rewritten everything in her own words, before letting the gospels be written down into permanent memory ... she did it for the lulz. :)
Allrighty. She's had her bitch fest. I love em too. Now if I was the boss driving them around, I'd tell her to shut up or she gets to ride on the roof. Might be getting paid to deliver the package. Ain't being paid to listen to it bitch every klick of the way.
If you think she's bad now, what do you think she'd be like after being tranqed? You'd probably be better off just shooting her. I imagine she's a dangerous enemy (smart people can get you in ways you'd never see coming) and that would seriously piss her off.
The New Troy system may not be perfect (like they haven't managed to elminiate poverty), but Connie's points are valid. Though, while she's obviously overreacting, the Dr. may have some good points, too. It sounds like that even in New Troy the biases between humans and androids are still a major obstacle to living together and getting along. Aside from the andy bigots (like Connie's former boss), there are also human bigots (like Teedee).
And that's just in New Troy, where andies practically have full human rights and humans generally treat them as such. That's NOTHING like New Rome, to say nothing of the other city states and remnants of civilization, where the situation is different.
Invent something, Dr. Silver! Politics is not your forte!
As smart as Dr. Silver is, it's a shame she can't see that further efforts at resolving the biases (both kinds) would go a long way for better properity and human-andy integration. She's a brilliant scientist who's in a position to do something or invent something towards that end.
Specifically, it boggles my mind that it's the year 38XX - almost 2 millenia since the Luna Star story where sentient AI was uncommon - and they STILL haven't perfected a way to download a human brain into a positronic brain and artificial body. Come on! With their high tech level, I find that unbelievable (especially since there is some limited contact with alien civilizations).
If nothing else, it's a crying shame that they haven't got the tech to do a Ghost-in-the-Shell thing by giving humans the option of becoming a full-conversion cyborg (human brain in a bottle inside an andy body). It breaks my suspension of disbelief.
I say that if they had either kind of tech, that would (in theory) improve human-andy relations. If a portion of the "human" population were full conversion cyborgs, then they'd have little excuse to look down on andys or treat them differently. And they'd have a better appreciation of how andys live. Andy's too, might tend to look at humans differently.
And if humans were downloaded into andy bodies - especially if they're categorized as a type of andy in their new lives - that'd change a lot of perspectives.
The ultimate, though, would be if humans could not only be "downloaded" but also have a way of sharing thoughts and experiences directly with andies - sort of like telepathy or thought transference.
For that matter: Why can't andies share thoughts and experiences directly with each other, sort of like memory or thought transference? Are there laws against this? If so, why? What about andy skill sets? Is there anything stopping them from voluntarily sharing their skill files with each other?
[I'm pretty sure she knows there is an autopilot. She's being android polite!]
*(Of course they are all from out-of-town at the moment.)
Well, appearently 1 to 1.
.. also, magic !
but its several Million including All ( andriod/human all classes )
new troy is about the size of new york so could support around 8 million or so..
New york as of 2011 is 8.245 million
- How many is human ?
- How many is Android ?
- How many is .. other ?
Almost every device in new troy has some sort of "intelligence"
It's not like she's unintelligent, or anything.
Several thousand years in the future :
And so, on the 3.14th day of the 21st rotation, the Reverse Master Switcher brought the attention of his second semester techies, the 4th gospel of the Centcomm.
RMS : "And so mote it be, or something like that, using an archaic notation that noone else use anymore - that the 8.245 million was mixed in a ratio of 51% human and 49 % android, and a smaller sub percentage of .. other."
The techies ohh'ed and ahh'ed and made three-quarter rotations of their third digit.
One techie spoke up - "but Reverse Master, what is a human ?"
RMS : "According to the Second Verse of the Tokyo Rose Rant, it was one of the main ingredients in making smoothies that would taste good with Girl Scout Cookies!"
Several more three-quarter rotations of the third digits happened, and even a few 3/5ths rotations happened.
The little techie asked again "the ones with real Girl Scouts in them ?"
RMS : "yes"
A 2.8 kilo volt shock moved trough the crowd of techies and one even rebooted.
"And that," intoned the RMS, "is why the 4th gospel of the Centcomm is so important. For the doggie that smokes salmons and the Tokyo Rose that Rants about everything ... says so."
And everyone agreed.
Centcomms words were indeed the holy gospels of the ancient random access memory.
-----oOOo------
And none of them knew, that in the ancients times, the Tokyo Rose had rewritten everything in her own words, before letting the gospels be written down into permanent memory ... she did it for the lulz. :)
I could see that, given what we've seen of Rose so far.
Also it would be an excellent way of covering the trails of some of the .. less heroic deeds some of the AIS's have done.
Poor Connie...
And that's just in New Troy, where andies practically have full human rights and humans generally treat them as such. That's NOTHING like New Rome, to say nothing of the other city states and remnants of civilization, where the situation is different.
Invent something, Dr. Silver! Politics is not your forte!
As smart as Dr. Silver is, it's a shame she can't see that further efforts at resolving the biases (both kinds) would go a long way for better properity and human-andy integration. She's a brilliant scientist who's in a position to do something or invent something towards that end.
Specifically, it boggles my mind that it's the year 38XX - almost 2 millenia since the Luna Star story where sentient AI was uncommon - and they STILL haven't perfected a way to download a human brain into a positronic brain and artificial body. Come on! With their high tech level, I find that unbelievable (especially since there is some limited contact with alien civilizations).
If nothing else, it's a crying shame that they haven't got the tech to do a Ghost-in-the-Shell thing by giving humans the option of becoming a full-conversion cyborg (human brain in a bottle inside an andy body). It breaks my suspension of disbelief.
I say that if they had either kind of tech, that would (in theory) improve human-andy relations. If a portion of the "human" population were full conversion cyborgs, then they'd have little excuse to look down on andys or treat them differently. And they'd have a better appreciation of how andys live. Andy's too, might tend to look at humans differently.
And if humans were downloaded into andy bodies - especially if they're categorized as a type of andy in their new lives - that'd change a lot of perspectives.
The ultimate, though, would be if humans could not only be "downloaded" but also have a way of sharing thoughts and experiences directly with andies - sort of like telepathy or thought transference.