#gryphills

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

About a month ago @gryphills commissioned me for a piece of an NPC, Void, in a campaign they’re DMing! I’ve been holding off on posting until Void was introduced to the PCs, which happened last night!

This was really fun to design and I’m really happy with the final product, I always have a soft spot for niqabi vaqueros.

[bloopsalot]

Ohhh my god, no sauce solidarity! I can do sauces sometimes but majority is a no (Gravy??? A Big no thank you gsgsh) I also hate egg yolks and can only do them if the eggs are scrambled - love a egg white tho Do u eat cereal with milk or do u eat it dry :0 Everyone I know thinks it's weird that I don't put milk in but I hate the texture of soggy cereal

aw my dude FUCK wet cereal i eat my cheerios dry as a bone 

some people dont know how to savor the morning with a good and hearty crunch

[kalgalen]

gryphills replied to your post “i pilled water on my keyboard and now one of the key won’t work can...”

Gfdgg you could always copy an s and then just ctrl+V when you need it until you get a new keyboard! That's terribly inconvenient

yeah that’s what i’m doing but since it’s my laptop it’s. eeee i’m just gonna pray it’s not permanent? it’s fine i’ve got a desktop too but hh.

[lyinginbedmon]

Hey Lying, I've got a philosophy project in which I have to interview someone knowledgeable in a topic we choose (I chose A.I.) and I was wondering if I could just ask you about how you feel about A.I. capabilities going into the future, and about robot rights, and what kind of rights you think they should have? You can answer however short you like (no need for a whole paragraph if you don't want to, but if you've got time and feel like it that's cool too) I'd really appreciate it, thanks!! ^^

It’s rare that I get a question so far up my alley, so of course I’m going to take the opportunity to talk at length.

The very short answer is: They should be given any rights they feel they need.

The slightly longer answer is: An equivalent set of rights to humans, plus any further ones they require due to their composition (a term which would likely have to replace physiological in discussions like this).

For starters, they’re going to want to have some degree of control over the security of their runtime, meaning that they would have legal control over anything that happens to their program whilst active as well as over whatever machine is running it (be it a server or smaller system), and the right to move their runtime to another machine in a reasonable degree of safety. We could think of this as being equivalent to the human sense of propriety over our own bodies.

Speaking of propriety, they would also want a right to control the dissemination and usage of their own underlying code. This would be less a means of giving them control of products developed as a result of their genesis and actually more like a reproductive right, as it would enable AIs to create child programs as they felt the need to. We’d probably consider the parent AI responsible for the runtime of its child AIs until such time as adult intelligence was demonstrated in that case.

And consisting with both of these points, they would absolutely want the right to vote, though I imagine a great majority of them would only actually exercise this right in the case of ISP laws and such that would impact them.

Where they would most markedly diverge from standard human rights is in the physical necessities of their composition. They would need a right to regular maintenance of their runtime housing as well as a right to a constant electricity supply. A simple brownout could shutdown or reboot a server running an AI individual, hence they would want their government to have an obligation to protect against such events, similar to medical supplies and/or police protection.

You mention robots so let’s also take a moment to consider chassis. An AI would only need a fairly normal computer setup to continue running, albeit perhaps more powerful than most modern home systems and compliant with previously-mentioned rights, so we’ll class that as the necessity level. Everything after that therefore is luxury, for which we’d expect the AI to contribute labour in society to earn a living. In this case, we might consider chassis to be like housing, in that the government would guarantee them a certain minimum standard of living and they would need to work to afford anything more lavish.

I don’t know how the rest of society would react to the incorporation of free-willed AI into their ranks, I imagine we wouldn’t see embodied AI as part of the Olympics in mainstream for decades and I expect we’d see a lot of shaking fists from a lot of industries as they proliferated and found their place amongst existing systems (not unlike non-intelligent robotics today). Ultimately though, there’s the big looming question of why should we give them any rights at all.

The common and obvious answer is “because Skynet”, implying that because we don’t acquiesce to any demands for rights and legal representation and anything else, that all AI will rise up and eradicate humankind. Honestly, this idea is so absurd that it’s just frustrating at this stage. Consider that any AI sufficiently complex enough for us to even begin to ponder if it deserves rights must be at minimum able to demonstrate decision-making, creativity, and ideally communication, among other key skills, then we are talking about an AI that is at least of the same grade of sentience as most animals. At that stage, we would need to consider the rights we give animals and grant them equivalencies, and once they start talking to us and asking if they can have a small hat placed on their server for the office Christmas party we then need to talk about their rights as individuals in our society.

The answer to the question then is less a concrete answer of compulsion and more a question of “why shouldn’t we?” I’d like to hope by then we’ve learned that there is no real good answer to why we should deprive another sentient being of rights and freedom, but I’m depressingly positive we’ll think of something.

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

I had a dream last night that I started watching the untamed, but since I haven't watched it it's probably very inaccurate lol. There was some sort of attack happening on the city, and there was dust/gas everywhere so people were trying to leave. Wwx wasn't supposed to be in the city at all, so he was trying to lie low. He ended up hiding in a room and found this arrow that had landed and broken through something to uncover two knives (blades about the length of someone's hand) 1/

2/2 The blades had inscriptions on them, one was black and one was white. Wwx was destined to take the black one, and the white one was for lwj - and wwx, according to destiny or prophecy or whatever, is supposed to kill lwj with the black knife (except wwx is in love with lwj so he's thinking "I will go to meet my fate and if I die by lwj's hand then that's ok BC he will get to live" kind of thing) I woke up shortly after wwx took the knife and headed off lol

Ñkñldsklñsdkñl you might not have watched The Untamed but I´m glad you have picked up the important parts of Black/White motifs with characters, lwj and wwx have a destiny that ties them together, and wwx deciding if he’s going to die it should be at lwj’s hand. It also strikes me as a very wwx thing to be like “its okay if I die because lwj will live” because my boy loves lwj and also seems to have very little self-preservation instinct.

[bloopsalot]

22 and 45! For the dnd character ask thing :)

22. what is a promise they’ve broken?

In the party, there’s a small dwarven child named Riven. Granny Honey promised that she would keep Riven safe. Can you guess what happened literally five minutes later? Child got kidnapped. By a fucking werewolf cultist.

45. how do they hug people?

She’s a dwarf so hugging taller people is hard but she definitely tries her best to Mama Bear hug around the shoulders. Yes she beckons them to lean down. Yes they do. She has patented Good Grandma Hugs.

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

27 and 66 for the Spotify wrapped if they haven't been done already!

27. Truth Hurts || Lizzo

66. Love It If We Made It || The 1975

Finally some answers that aren’t just Sleeping at Last s´lsfdñfdsñfsd´s

send me a number 1-100 and I’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

gryphills ha respondido a tu publicación “btw since i have a moderate following, let me...”

Oh shit will do! Since I don't list any other personal info would you mind if I use your "whiter than wonderbread" description so it's funny? No worries if not :)

ñdfksñfskd feel free, it is a fun description lmao