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WCDT: 18-22 Oct 2010 (1776-1780)
Heliphyneau:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 19 Oct 2010, 04:26 ---I didn't have to look up either singularity or elohim. I got the joke: the Robotic Rapture* has come and gone, and Pintsize has nothing to show for it, not even a lousy t-shirt.
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THANK YOU. I got it right away and was surprised others didn't -- Pintsize sort of explains it in his rant in panel 3 anyway. Even without knowing what "elohim" means, he's fairly descriptive. I'm gonna guess that the reason for the misspelling on Winslow's e-cake is due to the influence of the ubiquitous lolcats. I love Pintsize's angry face in the last panel, heh heh. :-D And yay, we finally get to see Winslow again!
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 19 Oct 2010, 04:48 ---Does this mean tomorrow will be a cybertronically-enhanced Angus cybergroping Faye's thought-boobs?
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YES. The sensation will go on for infinity, in binary. And the front window of CoD will become the Donkey Kong win screen . . .
--- Quote from: laizeohbeets on 19 Oct 2010, 08:21 ---Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Sexy Robot Elohim has to be Six. It just makes sense.
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Not my type, but by all means enjoy. :wink:
Mad Cat:
The Singularity will not be televised.
haikupoet:
The Singularity is just nerd messianism. A couple of months ago PZ Myers took on Ray Kurzweil's ideas about the singularity, including his belief that strong AI is within the foreseeable future of computing technology. Since PZ happens to specialize in neural development, he's somewhat more qualified than most to talk about the possibility of strong AI, and to say that we don't know what we don't know about the matter is perhaps being overly polite about the matter.
The downside is that we won't be getting Winslow or Momo any time soon. The upside: no Pintsize either.
Tormuse:
--- Quote from: westrim on 19 Oct 2010, 00:53 ---...*facepalm* I can only respond with two words:
GOOGLE IT
Seriously guys... :cry: When you've looked it up and come back, then we'll talk.
And no, no one tell them. If they can't make that minuscule effort they don't need to know.
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--- Quote from: akronnick on 19 Oct 2010, 01:08 ---...no, it's so much more satisfying to display you're ignorance and self-importance by getting all butt-hurt because you didn't get the joke.
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Okay, can I request that we stop directing such hostility at people who ask questions? Especially since the knowledge of what a singularity is doesn't invalidate the question of what "the" singularity is in this case. The above-quoted posts are just mean-spirited, uncalled-for, and make for an uncomfortable atmosphere on the forum.
Even with the help of Google, the meaning of today's comic is unclear and even if it wasn't, there's no reason to belittle people for stating that they don't get it. I don't come on this forum very often, but it would be nice if I could visit without fear of being insulted for asking what I consider to be innocuous questions.
Google is an excellent resource for knowledge of anything and everything you can imagine, (and some things you'd rather not imagine) ;) but there's no reason this forum can't be treated as a resource for knowledge about the comic. I mean why wouldn't it be?
westrim:
--- Quote from: Akima on 19 Oct 2010, 01:48 ---Yeah. I know what the Singularity is of course, but I had to google (and wikipedia) elohim. A Hebrew word for god apparently. Eh? I still don't think I'm getting the joke.
A joke that requires an encyclopaedia to understand, is arguably less successful than one that tickles the funny-bone immediately. XKCD walks this tightrope every strip, but I find it more accessible than today's QC, having studied more mathematics and science than Hebrew.
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First, damn you for linking to TV Tropes. Second, yeah it's pretty much another term for god, although I've mostly seen it used in reference to Jesus in The Salvation War (Google will just link you to the TV Tropes page for that, too, so damn me, I guess. :-P) But even if the term wasn't familiar, it was pretty obviously something messianic from context, so I guess he was leaning on that.
--- Quote from: no one special on 19 Oct 2010, 01:56 ---Yeah, I really didn't even LQTM.
I read it... and nothing. So I looked up "the singularity" theory... and I guess if you're really into hardcore science-fiction it means something? I dunno. I'm only into sci-fi melodrama (Star Trek, Star Wars), so I guess I don't count. I don't even really "The Singularity" as being possible - but I'm sure I'm thinking about it too much, so I shan't go on about it.
But yeah, the only thing I found humorous was Winslow's nonplussed reaction to such a momentous event.
And the purposeful misspelling? Can someone explain that? I'm honestly just stumped about the whole thing, as this THE FIRST qc comic that I really just don't get, not even a little bit.
WELL anyway, it's only one comic, life goes on.
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:-o Really, anything that isn't far future (or past) with spaceships is "hardcore scifi?" Much scifi dealing with near future changes brings up the singularity, if often not by name. It's especially popular with people interested in technology and it's evolution, since so far there's been a clear progression with no signs of slowing. Everything you needed to know to get the gist was in the third panel anyway.
I dunno about the typo, though.
I guess this kind of lack of clarity is bound to happen occasionally when he starts so late.
EDIT: Crap, I wrote the above last night, but I apparently posted only part of it. Posting, then reading the thread.
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