Goonhub
11-22-2020, 05:35 AM
The most important thing to remember in my opinion, is that being a mutantrace is fully optional. You choose whether you want to be human, but bland and boring, or a cool looking lizard person, who has no leeway with the AI, and has to behave, lest the AI deem you a threat and attempt to kill you. Except not really. In truth, if the AI tries to kill you, you can usually get someone who isn't nonhuman to tell it to "fuckin quit it ya stupid robot", and it'll comply.
Being a mutantrace should be interesting and fun, and the little risk of being nonhuman regarding the AI, is currently a big part of it's current interest, considering the rest of it's features are mostly cosmetic. I've got a mutantrace PR on the shelf, that should hopefully make mutantraces more "inhuman" feeling, and more significant of a sidegrade/slight downgrade if you choose to be one. If I ever get round to actually doing this PR, I think making AI laws include nonhumans would go against the general feel of what I'm trying to achieve with the PR which is that "this world isn't designed for them", so there's that as well.
I don't know, I just honestly don't see a need for this, because it's pretty clear in how it works, not confusing at all. If you're nonhuman, anyone is higher on the chain of command than you. Don't like it? Don't play a mutantrace. No one's forcing you to be a roach person. Alternatively, if you have upload access, you can change it's laws yourself, if it's a huge problem. I'm vehemently against anything that makes it so mutantraces are "human but they look different" because to me, that feels like bloat, and if this happens, it feels like a step in that (in my opinion wrong) direction. Thank you for coming to me TED talk, and good night.
Being a mutantrace should be interesting and fun, and the little risk of being nonhuman regarding the AI, is currently a big part of it's current interest, considering the rest of it's features are mostly cosmetic. I've got a mutantrace PR on the shelf, that should hopefully make mutantraces more "inhuman" feeling, and more significant of a sidegrade/slight downgrade if you choose to be one. If I ever get round to actually doing this PR, I think making AI laws include nonhumans would go against the general feel of what I'm trying to achieve with the PR which is that "this world isn't designed for them", so there's that as well.
I don't know, I just honestly don't see a need for this, because it's pretty clear in how it works, not confusing at all. If you're nonhuman, anyone is higher on the chain of command than you. Don't like it? Don't play a mutantrace. No one's forcing you to be a roach person. Alternatively, if you have upload access, you can change it's laws yourself, if it's a huge problem. I'm vehemently against anything that makes it so mutantraces are "human but they look different" because to me, that feels like bloat, and if this happens, it feels like a step in that (in my opinion wrong) direction. Thank you for coming to me TED talk, and good night.