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Re: My friends?
Posted By: General-RADIXDate: 12/6/20 4:21 p.m.

In Response To: Re: My friends? (VikingBoyBilly)

: Considering how dumb they made the simulacrums and they have to make a cyborg
: of one of their own to act as a remote controller for their s'pht, and
: that most of their technology is stolen, this suggests that they don't
: have a good understanding of how to program A.I. This is necessary for the
: story because why wage wars to enslave races and sell them when they can
: just build robots? The Occam's Razor answer would be that they don't know
: how to make their own robots (they can't be lacking resources with so much
: of the galaxy at their disposal). But then they have the pfhor drones in
: M2. Maybe those don't have independent AI and need a remote cyborg
: controller as well?

I wonder if part of the reason the Pfhor don't have sentient AI even by the time of M2 is their control-gland-based tech that possibly allows them to emulate several functions of an AI without that inconvenient "rampancy" issue. If something in your system goes rogue, it can be as simple as tracking down the offending peon and yanking them out.

Something of note: the ability of a sentient AI to exist in their systems does seem to be there, given how Durandal was compatible with two of their ships, and that there's no mention of them physically hauling off Tycho's core between M1 and M2.

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My friends?pfhore 12/1/20 2:19 a.m.
     Re: My friends?General-RADIX 12/1/20 12:46 p.m.
           Re: My friends?VikingBoyBilly 12/1/20 3:20 p.m.
                 Re: My friends?General-RADIX 12/1/20 3:46 p.m.
                       Re: My friends?pfhore 12/1/20 7:12 p.m.
     Re: My friends?Forrest of B.org 12/1/20 9:12 p.m.
           Re: My friends?General-RADIX 12/1/20 9:22 p.m.
                 Re: My friends?VikingBoyBilly 12/3/20 4:07 p.m.
                       Re: My friends?Godot 12/3/20 10:32 p.m.
                             Re: My friends?VikingBoyBilly 12/4/20 8:47 a.m.
                                   Re: My friends?General-RADIX 12/5/20 12:40 a.m.
           Re: My friends?Godot 12/2/20 1:10 a.m.
                 Re: My friends?Bob-B-Q 12/2/20 7:41 a.m.
                       Re: My friends?Godot 12/2/20 9:00 a.m.
                             Re: My friends?Bob-B-Q 12/6/20 9:15 a.m.
                                   Re: My friends?VikingBoyBilly 12/6/20 2:53 p.m.
                                         Re: My friends?General-RADIX 12/6/20 4:21 p.m.
                                               Re: My friends?VikingBoyBilly 12/6/20 5:26 p.m.
                                         Re: My friends?Forrest of B.org 12/6/20 6:27 p.m.
                                               Re: My friends?General-RADIX 12/6/20 6:59 p.m.
                                                     Re: My friends?VikingBoyBilly 12/7/20 2:40 a.m.
                                               Re: My friends?Bob-B-Q 12/7/20 7:47 a.m.
                 Re: My friends?Forrest of B.org 12/2/20 11:09 a.m.
                       Re: My friends?Godot 12/2/20 11:37 a.m.
                             Re: My friends?Lion O Cyborg 12/2/20 12:38 p.m.
                                   Re: My friends?Godot 12/2/20 10:19 p.m.
                 Re: My friends?VikingBoyBilly 12/3/20 4:16 p.m.

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