the newest eyrie is out early this year....

[Morganite]

My original thought process started with "It seems pretty irresponsible for them to offload responsibility onto Turing like this when for all they know the planet could have been eaten by Galactus or something."

Then it was something like "Wait a minute, why should creating machine intelligence be so much more regulated than creating biological intelligence?" (Eventually, this lead to "If a shady corporation decided to whip up their own idol group, shouldn't the crime be child abuse?")

And eventually the part comes where I can hear my City of Heroes avatar going "Okay, time to start grabbing these jokers and taking their everything."

The galaxy is lucky it took only a few years for it to get to a short organic on organic civil war and the IPO power block would've taken a stance against that sort of law because the machine-organic civil war that would've followed otherwise would've rend the known galaxy apart.

Seems kinda iffy to me. Most of those scenarios seem to require a) a society that builds enormous numbers of sapient machines while being terrible to them, or b) a small number of same that can build the large number themselves (and have no ethical qualms about doing so). Neither seems likely here.

And I think it's safe to say the IPO's stance is pretty clear and being acted upon well before the big break. (See demonstrated handling of: telepaths.)

I remember way back when this thread was used to announce new stories from EPU.

All update threads on this board are "and-discussion-of" threads at least some of the time.

-Morgan.