Violet was a human piloting a drone, and thus her (his?) behavior doesn’t imply anything. Whether Bubbles has to obey the 3 laws is most probably set in her AI, not in her new body.
If the basement is on fire, doesn’t that mean that the basement-dwellers are dying in their hundreds, or at any rate are in such a changed situation that the files are no longer relevant in any case?
Poor Gavotte, she’s such a mess!
Sexed herself to silliness!
Gave a task, so we ask,
“Can we get a raise?”
Sweetheart, Tip, and Unity,
Orders contradictory!
Weapon sonic! Catatonic!
Chris is in a daze!
Sweetheart knows Zerhakker can’t
See inside the rubber plant …
But the scanner goes on strike,
Telling her to take a hike!
Unity persuades us gently!
Door is open! Incident’ly,
Building’s gonna burn down!
Help we cannot turn down!
We gotta save the files!
&emsp:Gotta stop our fighting, ’cause they’re all igniting!
We gotta save the files!
It’s a grave concern, they soon will burn
And burn and burn and burn and burn ….
I don’t always comment, but when I do it’s usually because Eddurd has made me laugh at a filk. Seriously, Sweetheart is focused like a laser on this mission. Does she even NEED money?
It’s not about the money. It’s about duty, and performing the tasks assigned to her with the utmost of efficiency as befits a bureaucrat of her stature. That reality might have different requirements does not alter her priorities.
It’s not so much the raise, it’s the promotion that’s important. Being recognized for doing well, the equivalent of “Good doggy! You are such a good doggy, yes you are!”
Sweetheart seems to be very skilled at seeming contrite about doing bad things yet not learning anything from the experience.
…And yet, now that I think about it, that’s a very doggy thing to do.
Daniel, Sweetheart has lots of redeeming qualities. Unfortunately, they are redeeming qualities in relation to her background, which is a canine developed by a Canadian mad scientist. If you parse her actions based on “canine,” “Canadian” and “mad science,” then everything she’s done is on the up-and-up.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean she’s doing things for those whose basic structure is “human” and “not-mad,” not to mention the whole “not-Canadian” thing.
People focus on Canadian politeness, but in fact there’s a whole alternate reality going on in Canadians heads. These are a people who once wanted to build a railway across Canada, but have the actual tracks in the U.S., because it was too difficult to build IN Canada…and don’t even mention poutine.
We can hope that the tire area can be sealed off… IIRC the 12th floor was sealed off, apparently permanently, over something Unity did to it… You’d have to be governmentally stupid to store masses of tires inside an occupied structure… which they appear to have done.
And Sweetie is just doing her job to the best of her ability- what do you expect? She’s not human, and was clearly raised so that only being a Good Dog got rewarded… no unconditional love.
So… Sweetheart, all that time in a government office and it’s never quite connected that if the office looks bad, it doesn’t matter how well you do? Her fixation in this case seems… off from her previous fixations.
WTH sweetheart
I’m afraid poor Sweetheart may have snapped. Must have been the absence of a strong authority figure.
Both tasks can be executed simultaneously and without interference.
No dining philosophers need to starve.
Well, Bubbles might get burned alive fixing their stuffup. But she doesn’t need to eat, that *is* true…
That’s a military drone. I’m going to assume it’s fairly heat resistant, possibly even fireproof.
Only it’s a large object that can’t fit inside the building.
Bubbles, not Nick. Late of the water cooler, now inhabiting the Violet Bee drone.
unless bubbles is a 3-laws robot. By saving the files she’d be “through inaction, allowing a (few dozen) human(s) to come to harm”
I seriously doubt she is a three laws robot. Remember all she did as violet
Violet was a human piloting a drone, and thus her (his?) behavior doesn’t imply anything. Whether Bubbles has to obey the 3 laws is most probably set in her AI, not in her new body.
I don’t think Bubbles is fireproof, Sweetheart.
-_-
Bubbles is the water cooler. Let her put out the fire with her water.
If the basement is on fire, doesn’t that mean that the basement-dwellers are dying in their hundreds, or at any rate are in such a changed situation that the files are no longer relevant in any case?
I guess I suck at thinking like a bureaucrat.
They’re not in that sub-basement. They’re in a different level that houses the building’s tire recycling plant.
Perhaps this horrendous massacre of the colonists in the Overhead Territory of Tire-Recycling-Plantia will be the provocation that leads to war.
(TUNE: “We Didn’t Start The Fire”, Billy Joel)
Poor Gavotte, she’s such a mess!
Sexed herself to silliness!
Gave a task, so we ask,
“Can we get a raise?”
Sweetheart, Tip, and Unity,
Orders contradictory!
Weapon sonic! Catatonic!
Chris is in a daze!
Sweetheart knows Zerhakker can’t
See inside the rubber plant …
But the scanner goes on strike,
Telling her to take a hike!
Unity persuades us gently!
Door is open! Incident’ly,
Building’s gonna burn down!
Help we cannot turn down!
We gotta save the files!
&emsp:Gotta stop our fighting, ’cause they’re all igniting!
We gotta save the files!
It’s a grave concern, they soon will burn
And burn and burn and burn and burn ….
I don’t always comment, but when I do it’s usually because Eddurd has made me laugh at a filk. Seriously, Sweetheart is focused like a laser on this mission. Does she even NEED money?
It’s not about the money. It’s about duty, and performing the tasks assigned to her with the utmost of efficiency as befits a bureaucrat of her stature. That reality might have different requirements does not alter her priorities.
It’s not so much the raise, it’s the promotion that’s important. Being recognized for doing well, the equivalent of “Good doggy! You are such a good doggy, yes you are!”
Sweetie is so focused on that promotion/raise, that she is going to leave people at risk?
Seriously Sweetie, you have a lot of work redeeming yourself
Sweetheart seems to be very skilled at seeming contrite about doing bad things yet not learning anything from the experience.
…And yet, now that I think about it, that’s a very doggy thing to do.
The essence of dogginess.
Way to keep the streak alive, Sweetheart. For a moment, I thought you would finally exhibit a redeeming quality.
Daniel, Sweetheart has lots of redeeming qualities. Unfortunately, they are redeeming qualities in relation to her background, which is a canine developed by a Canadian mad scientist. If you parse her actions based on “canine,” “Canadian” and “mad science,” then everything she’s done is on the up-and-up.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean she’s doing things for those whose basic structure is “human” and “not-mad,” not to mention the whole “not-Canadian” thing.
People focus on Canadian politeness, but in fact there’s a whole alternate reality going on in Canadians heads. These are a people who once wanted to build a railway across Canada, but have the actual tracks in the U.S., because it was too difficult to build IN Canada…and don’t even mention poutine.
You have caused me to cackle loudly.
We can hope that the tire area can be sealed off… IIRC the 12th floor was sealed off, apparently permanently, over something Unity did to it… You’d have to be governmentally stupid to store masses of tires inside an occupied structure… which they appear to have done.
And Sweetie is just doing her job to the best of her ability- what do you expect? She’s not human, and was clearly raised so that only being a Good Dog got rewarded… no unconditional love.
Once it’s sealed off, it will become Strong Badia (population: Tire).
So… Sweetheart, all that time in a government office and it’s never quite connected that if the office looks bad, it doesn’t matter how well you do? Her fixation in this case seems… off from her previous fixations.