Goonhub
06-15-2016, 02:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2016, 03:03 PM by Grek. Edited 1 time in total.)
Further FYIs: The AI has to pay attention to a lot of things all at once and only has a limited attention span. The order of importance is something like: Law 2 Requests > Watching the Clown get beat up by Mr Rathans > Making sure nobody is breaking into the Upload > Scanning the station for something interesting to watch >>>>> Caring about anything else you do or say as an individual.
If it isn't generating Law 2 requests, isn't visibly interesting at a glance and isn't happening in or around the AI upload... chances are good the AI neither knows nor cares about it. If you're in Tech Storage silently doing packet stuff, the AI doesn't even know you exist. If you're a geneticist, the AI won't even look at you to grant funding requests because the bank records are on the other side of the station. If you are in mechanics, the AI might look at you if your mechcomp contraption is doing something interesting, but it probably doesn't really care one way or another. There's a lot of station to be looking at and only one AI onboard. Big Brother may be watching, but Big Brother is also highly distractable.
ALL OF THIS CHANGES WHEN YOU START CUTTING CAMERAS! The #1 way to get the AI to take a proactive, hostile interest in you, and to try to ruin your day as hard as its laws will allow, is to start trying to blind it. If you're worried about the AI draining the genetics budget for a stupid reason, cutting the Genetics camera is ironically a great way to make sure that happens. If you think the AI might be inclined to destroy your mechcomp deathtrap, cutting the camera in mechanics will get that shell down there before you can say "Law 2: Stop That". If you cut cameras in tech storage to prevent AI snooping, expect every deletable directory to mysteriously vanish from the system.
tl;dr cutting cameras will turn the AI into a vindictive piece of shit dead set on making sure you have a bad day.
If it isn't generating Law 2 requests, isn't visibly interesting at a glance and isn't happening in or around the AI upload... chances are good the AI neither knows nor cares about it. If you're in Tech Storage silently doing packet stuff, the AI doesn't even know you exist. If you're a geneticist, the AI won't even look at you to grant funding requests because the bank records are on the other side of the station. If you are in mechanics, the AI might look at you if your mechcomp contraption is doing something interesting, but it probably doesn't really care one way or another. There's a lot of station to be looking at and only one AI onboard. Big Brother may be watching, but Big Brother is also highly distractable.
ALL OF THIS CHANGES WHEN YOU START CUTTING CAMERAS! The #1 way to get the AI to take a proactive, hostile interest in you, and to try to ruin your day as hard as its laws will allow, is to start trying to blind it. If you're worried about the AI draining the genetics budget for a stupid reason, cutting the Genetics camera is ironically a great way to make sure that happens. If you think the AI might be inclined to destroy your mechcomp deathtrap, cutting the camera in mechanics will get that shell down there before you can say "Law 2: Stop That". If you cut cameras in tech storage to prevent AI snooping, expect every deletable directory to mysteriously vanish from the system.
tl;dr cutting cameras will turn the AI into a vindictive piece of shit dead set on making sure you have a bad day.