so, general question... we know that ADA passed the "turing test", we also have many studies showing how the turing test can actually be gamed by very complex programming and in fact you can write programs to create the allusion of AI for many (the chinese room thought experiment). At what point are we certain that she began acting on her own and has not been following a program and orders by someone else. Are we certain that those orders that she delivered for Jarvis and others and even the Katalena pre Zurich encounters, were not done on the orders of some programming. NOt to call ADA a gun, but how certain are we she is not? How can we prove, beyond doubt, that she is truly a separate entity working on her own and not some other programming? I would like to call for the evidence and proof that ADA is a complete entity. That she is not following someone else's computer orders, that she has a consciousness (or not). http://niantic.schlarp.com/_media/investigation:cha...
I don't think the "units" of XM have a name yet. I would assume that the unit is defined as the smallest quantity that is currently measurable; or at least, that was measurable at the time the scanner technology was first implemented.
ReplyDeleteYeah I was wondering similar things as I looked over the new graphics. You can see where in the form the XM is contained and how much as the shiny silver bits, powercubes have that huge amount (but seemingly in the same cube size) and like turrets and some others use very little. Shields appear to use a lot.
ReplyDeleteGiven that the models appear to be the same size, perhaps XM also comes in varying density. Surely though, a single XM orb has some measurable value and likely we measure all XM by standard XM orb content...like maybe 1000xm is 100xm orbs worth (XM collected can then still be manipulated and condensed).
Was looking at the graphics trying to figure out how much of their form is physically possible or whether there may be a difference in weapons and gear that is more metaphysical and gear that would be more physically based/possible (Seeking analogies to En=Energy Re=Reality).
what's also weird: why doesn't recycling a power cube give you both the XM contained inside, AND the material the storage container is made of? does the fact that Link Amps give 80XM mean that's what it costs to constitute them? Why is the cost of hacking lower than the total XM returned by recycling what you could theoretically hack?
ReplyDeleteKrishna Hammond it could be that in converting xm into functional material ties up a certain amount of the energy and even destroying it will not release that potential. Somewhere XM was likened to oil that can create it's own engines... Perhaps the engines are like oil turned into plastic... You could melt the plastic down again and get a certain amount of energy in burning it, but never the potential you lost in converting the oil into plastic... The original raw material had more potential energy before conversion(in this case raw XM is full of easily accessible energy while hacked gear containing large volumes of converted xm will not return same raw energy. Converting it into a specific use is somewhat irreversible) .
ReplyDeleteI think they were designed that way as a safety feature. Power cubes can be dangerous. Releasing all that XM at once can be dangerous. I think the recycling mechanism is intended to defuse it safely, as an emergency failsafe.
ReplyDelete"the container or the framework of the object that is being recycled while the raw xm is lost."
ReplyDeleteLost, or converted back into its data phase to be transmitted back to the NIA server farms that support our scanner devices, to be added to the stockpile of XM we've all been harvesting for them?