Editing Tinker (section)

===Research===
Through the above mentioned scanning process and possibly even appropriating other Tinkers research,<ref name="SB6T"/><ref>“Tinkers can read powers and people and get data that they can then use for their tinkering stuff.  A tinker who makes flamethrowers can use my blueprints and figure out how to do some targeting tech.  Or, like, even if it’s not powers, I could do deep scans of a thinker and I could get power data I could use for my cameras.  Which is where right now I wish I could talk to a really good precog or postcog, and see how their power works.”<br>[...]<br>“We [[Mathers Compound Assault|saw some of this]] with [[Snag]] and [[Speedrunners|the others]], remember?”<br>[...]<br>“Yeah.  Every tinker is different so it’s not ''every'' tinker that does it, but it’s most, I think.  We all want our data and inspiration.  When I went to pick up my big projector box, I sent some flying cameras in.  Which was safe to do since Mama Mathers was gone, right?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/29 Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.4]]</ref> tinkers can 'push' their Tinkering portfolio into other specialties if they are willing to invest the time and energy while dealing with the challenges inherent with being an active parahuman.<ref>'''Research & Getting to AI'''<br><br>So if you wanted to get more into the neighborhood of Dragon-like stuff and independently functional creations, you might want to get into AI stuff.<br><br>In terms of of research, AI is Impulse x Data on the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aHyZ7c7TIgt903mPinOakrgli2WZu5IRtiGYPCnCqDE/edit#gid=485309631 Detail Generator] sheet, tinker tab. So it's a question of how easily you'd get into that. If you worked in any of the Data or the Impulse related fields, then it's something you could fiddle with on your own. Keep in mind it's less a question of how far away the option is (distance doesn't matter, exactly) and more the number of turns you have to make to get there.<br><br>Example: if you were a radiation tinker with flexible access to what they delve into, [http://i.imgur.com/k0rYEC3.png these] would likely be the options open to you (stuff along the impulse & elemental lines) - ignore the duplicate entries in white; it's just for table clarity. Now, keep in mind that whatever they delve into would probably be tainted or modified to reflect the stuff they started off doing & primarily specialize in. Working in AI with a Radiation start might resemble pulling a Pickle Rick only with harvested brain matter and purposefully generated tumors in said brains that give you avenues to hook them up to computers to do the thinking/AI stuff, rather than microchips. But AI is a straight line away and so it's something they could dabble in from the start, assuming they had the freedom with their methodology (hyperspecialists are stuck in one specialty, for example, as are a lot of binary tinkers) and the time/resources to research.<br><br>They could get there a lot faster by scanning stuff like thinker brains or other people's created life to get the necessary info.<br><br>Let's say you were a Vat tinker, though. Your lines of specialty run along the Artifice (tinkering with tinkerings) and Life spectrums. It's something of a jump to get from there to the AI field. I might, if I were your GM, rule that you had to cover several bases to get there...<br><br>[http://i.imgur.com/OgQMr11.png This] would be a vat tinker's options in terms of what they can get and where they want to go with AI stuff. To get to AI they'd need to go up and make a right turn at Lifesign or Tutoring, or go right and take a northward turn at Clones or Nanotech. As a GM I might say, hey, you can't go straight to AI or even try to skip to getting there. You gotta delve into this stuff which gives you the background knowledge.<br><br>So you might need to delve into the computer systems involving Lifesign (scanning people, reading lifesigns, targeting weak points), the skill-focused stuff in Tutoring (here, wear this hat, it'll upload kung fu know-how to your brain or download your traumatic memories for me to upload into your buddy's head), the growth of humans with human thoughts and memories (see what Bonesaw did with the S9) or the finer details of nanotech (colonies of microscopic computer systems/machines). And as a GM I'd say 'pick two, delve into them, field test them, and develop enough of a foundation you can go into AI'.<br><br>Again, that's ~if~ the tinker is allowed to deviate or explore to that degree. Many wouldn't be.<br><br>But if you could then as a vat tinker you'd then have a huge vat and you have a computer kludged into the top of it and the downloaded memories and skills from the Tutoring stuff you did, and you have a colony of Nanomachines that form a structure in the depths of it and create a kind of nanotech brain in a jar, and it then serves the functions an AI would.<br><br>This would be a pretty extreme & advanced jump, and keep in mind the tinker is having to get by, gather the resources & do their usual thing in the meantime. This'd be a massive side project with a lot of requirement in resources & time with little return until it came together. Few can afford to do that when they could be upgrading & advancing their core stuff. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Weaverdice/comments/6uivoc/some_tinker_questions/dltdrjb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x Wildbow answering tinker questions] on reddit.</ref> The extent that they can benefit from another tinkers research<ref name=scan22>Some tinkers are very narrow in what they can do - Lookout is one example. Give her all the research she could ask for from Bonesaw's workshop or Sidepiece's power, and it... really doesn't offer her much.<br><br>Others are pretty open. Kid Win could, given time, delve into cameras. He'd never be quite as good as Lookout, nor would he be as fast, but he could. So can Armsmaster.<br><br>Armsmaster has the benefit of having done a crapton of scanning and research over the years, the benefit of being a lead tinker in the Protectorate who gets to decide how stuff gets scanned and where those scans get sent (Dragon too), and he really isn't barred from any field, though stuff like what Bonesaw does is pretty far from his field of specialty. He ~could~ get into it, but it'd be a long 'walk' to get there and it wouldn't necessarily integrate with what he's already made, nor would his special talents as a tinker (efficiency) be served by it. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/flj2y5/questions_on_tinker_scans/fkyw4v7/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> and from scanning other [[parahuman]]s powers is based on the specific tinkers specialty, sometimes it will just make it easier for them for them to create something in their discipline.<ref>“Tinkers scan things,” Sveta said.  “They can study parahuman powers and reinterpret them into blueprints and ideas for tinkering. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/04 Excerpt] from [[Black 13.9]]</ref><ref>If Lookout scanned Legend she might get some inspiration regarding light, clear optics at a distance & with intervening smoke/interference, and a little boost (say, a +2% to quality) to interdimensional-type cameras. The equivalent of a few days to a week of devoting a few hours a day to those fields of study.<br><br>If Kid Win scanned Legend, he'd get a lot of information re: laser guns, modes of fire, energy and output, and other long-ranged stuff. Again, the equivalent of a few days to a week of devoting a few hours a day to studying that stuff.<br><br>It would be more effective for Kid Win to scan Legend than it would be for Lookout to do the same, because Legend checks all of the boxes, as far as Kid Win is concerned. Different modes of fire? Guns? Options? Energy? Absolutely.<br><br>If Lookout scanned Legend, then took those scans and handed them to Kid Win, it'd be filtered twice. When she scans she's looking for specific data in a specific context. Then Kid Win gets that data, and he can't use most of it because it's not relevant to what he does. So he can use 10% of the data Kenzie got, which is in itself not a 100% scan of Legend - he might get inspiration regarding long range scopes & that's it- the only real overlap between his specialty, hers, and Legend.<br><br>Side note: The PRT gives some general data on Protectorate and Ward powers to all of its tinkers, so he'd be getting a more generalist, 'this is everything we could get on Legend (and Alexandria, etc.) in every context we could think of'... which isn't as good as scanning Legend himself, but it's useful, and it means Legend isn't having to sit down and get tricorders pointed at him for two minutes every time he crosses paths with a PRT tinker. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/flj2y5/questions_on_tinker_scans/fkyw4v7/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Similarly using the scans of another tinker will have that data filtered through that tinkers methodology.<ref>“Ninety percent because I want another scan,” Cradle said.  “You gave me one of… ''his'', I think it was.”<br><br>He was pointing at Disjoint.<br><br>Love Lost nodded.<br><br>“I’ll get one of my own.  The data you collect is slightly different from what I get.  Differences in focus.”<br><br>Love Lost looked at Disjoint.<br><br>“So long as it doesn’t hurt me any,” Disjoint said.<br><br>“It won’t,” Cradle said.  His smile was thin, hollow. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/12/29/interlude-11-a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.a II]]</ref><ref name=scan22/> <!---
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<s>Cradle and love lost talking about scans in sidepiece interlude</s>
<s>Sveta commenting about tinker scans </s>
Kenzie talks about what tinkers could get from her work
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