A question ST, SW, and all else.
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NecronLord
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Re: A question ST, SW, and all else.
Jokers? Could you explain that term a little please?Dienonychus wrote:Well said. I wonder how that society would handle the Jokers of their world.
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Re: A question ST, SW, and all else.
Sociopathic assholes that grow insane through the lack of occupation?NecronLord wrote:Jokers? Could you explain that term a little please?Dienonychus wrote:Well said. I wonder how that society would handle the Jokers of their world.
They get assassin droids to blow them up.
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I've always had the idea of a two-pronged attack on things like social boredom and the like:
1. Genetic modifications & very high levels of education. If everybody is smarter, then the unskilled labour pool will be much smaller.
2. Legal limits on what AIs and robots can do. So even if your pet android is in every way superior to you, it isn't allowed to do all your work for you. And if you're growing up in a world where everybody knows that AIs don't do brainstorming (or inspect factories, crew warships, or whatever), then will it even occur to you to question why? And if you do, what will you do about it, beyond grumble a bit? For that matter, what can you do, if the AIs etc are actively helping to uphold this system?
Out-of-universe, this also neatly lets you use a more real-world economic model, with people being employed and having to go to work and all that, rather than have everyone live on their own little holodecks. Makes it easier for a reader to get into a story, and lets you explore some of the more sinister possibilities: imagine if every robot and AI on a planet brimming with them (like Star Wars) was required to obey and uphold the law, for example...
1. Genetic modifications & very high levels of education. If everybody is smarter, then the unskilled labour pool will be much smaller.
2. Legal limits on what AIs and robots can do. So even if your pet android is in every way superior to you, it isn't allowed to do all your work for you. And if you're growing up in a world where everybody knows that AIs don't do brainstorming (or inspect factories, crew warships, or whatever), then will it even occur to you to question why? And if you do, what will you do about it, beyond grumble a bit? For that matter, what can you do, if the AIs etc are actively helping to uphold this system?
Out-of-universe, this also neatly lets you use a more real-world economic model, with people being employed and having to go to work and all that, rather than have everyone live on their own little holodecks. Makes it easier for a reader to get into a story, and lets you explore some of the more sinister possibilities: imagine if every robot and AI on a planet brimming with them (like Star Wars) was required to obey and uphold the law, for example...
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NecronLord
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Re: A question ST, SW, and all else.
I'm really hoping he's not saying 'how do they deal with Batman villains' here...Zablorg wrote:Sociopathic assholes that grow insane through the lack of occupation?NecronLord wrote:Jokers? Could you explain that term a little please?Dienonychus wrote:Well said. I wonder how that society would handle the Jokers of their world.
They get assassin droids to blow them up.
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