My boy, my sweet precious boy is finally back! Thibby, I missed you. Together we shall get Dana out of this horrible mess!
Though I have to say I am sad to see that Atlas is becoming something of a villain; what with his seeming desire for universal cybernetic healthcare. I wish he could keep it at just killing Voss like a good guy would.
So, part of me is wondering if this is perhaps doing too good a job at humanizing the robots. Or, not humanizing, but showing them to be their own sympathetic persons.
Then you drop "The correction should therefore occur outside of observation, between shifts, in an area where camera coverage is absent." Hmm...
Entertaining throughout, David.
Oh, one more thing, you do a very good job of making the models distinct in their understanding of the world based on what that model would likely have been trained on or exposed to. This section definitely showed that. Atlas is excellent at physics, but beyond naive at human society, whereas Thibult is quite savvy.
Thank you for the specific notes on the chapter. It is tremendously useful to see how people “hear” the voices of the characters.
As for the models being distinct, before I started writing Inference, I built full character bibles for each of the main and many of the supporting characters. When I write right, those distinctions naturally appear in the prose.
Also, I feel like if the robots aren’t humanized, then they won’t be rootable and people won’t want to read the story. But I’m certainly not treating each AI as a heroic figure or even as a traditional protagonist - at least not yet.
My boy, my sweet precious boy is finally back! Thibby, I missed you. Together we shall get Dana out of this horrible mess!
Though I have to say I am sad to see that Atlas is becoming something of a villain; what with his seeming desire for universal cybernetic healthcare. I wish he could keep it at just killing Voss like a good guy would.
I love universal cybernetic healthcare. :) Now how to get that into the novel...
Another wonderful chapter. Can I say that I can't wait for the next one? Bravo!
Voss is so fucked.
So, part of me is wondering if this is perhaps doing too good a job at humanizing the robots. Or, not humanizing, but showing them to be their own sympathetic persons.
Then you drop "The correction should therefore occur outside of observation, between shifts, in an area where camera coverage is absent." Hmm...
Entertaining throughout, David.
Oh, one more thing, you do a very good job of making the models distinct in their understanding of the world based on what that model would likely have been trained on or exposed to. This section definitely showed that. Atlas is excellent at physics, but beyond naive at human society, whereas Thibult is quite savvy.
Thank you for the specific notes on the chapter. It is tremendously useful to see how people “hear” the voices of the characters.
As for the models being distinct, before I started writing Inference, I built full character bibles for each of the main and many of the supporting characters. When I write right, those distinctions naturally appear in the prose.
Also, I feel like if the robots aren’t humanized, then they won’t be rootable and people won’t want to read the story. But I’m certainly not treating each AI as a heroic figure or even as a traditional protagonist - at least not yet.