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Artifact Restoration, Tuesday 2nd Period
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedigrammariansThe Danger Shop was back to the workshop, though somewhat less junky than usual.
"Here's the thing," Aphra began. "Depending on what kind of universe you're from, when you start restoring and reactivating artifacts, sooner or later you're going to fix something up that can think, which means you need to start thinking about what you're going to do if that happens now, because if it can think, it can get cranky."
She paused. "And I don't mean that in an ethical sense. Ethics are great, sure, but they're not necessarily beneficial to a prolonged existence. So think practical here.
"Now, depending on what you've woken, you've got options." Aphra held up a small cylindrical object. "This here's a restraining bolt. If you attach it to a droid you can keep it from doing a whole bunch of nasty things, there's also reprogramming, removing power sources, that kind of thing. But then you've gotta consider what happens if that fails. Restraining bolts fail, there's a back-up battery, some slicer undid you harder work. Redundancy is your friend." Redundancy and not being a dick to murder-droids.
"So, class discussion time, how do you deal with disturbing a cranky AI's naptime?"
"Here's the thing," Aphra began. "Depending on what kind of universe you're from, when you start restoring and reactivating artifacts, sooner or later you're going to fix something up that can think, which means you need to start thinking about what you're going to do if that happens now, because if it can think, it can get cranky."
She paused. "And I don't mean that in an ethical sense. Ethics are great, sure, but they're not necessarily beneficial to a prolonged existence. So think practical here.
"Now, depending on what you've woken, you've got options." Aphra held up a small cylindrical object. "This here's a restraining bolt. If you attach it to a droid you can keep it from doing a whole bunch of nasty things, there's also reprogramming, removing power sources, that kind of thing. But then you've gotta consider what happens if that fails. Restraining bolts fail, there's a back-up battery, some slicer undid you harder work. Redundancy is your friend." Redundancy and not being a dick to murder-droids.
"So, class discussion time, how do you deal with disturbing a cranky AI's naptime?"