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WCDT: 2001-2005 (29 Aug-2 Sept 2011)
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 02 Sep 2011, 04:04 ---She doesn't own "Momo" though. She may technically have a sort of landlord-tenant relationship with the entity that is "Momo-tan" in respect of her current body/housing, but that's hardly slavery.
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I think landlord-tenant is possibly the closest analogy for the human-anthroPC relationship. Of course, no analogy will be perfect, just as the child and pet analogies don't perfectly fit. It's a whole new kind of relationship that we don't have a word for, but indeed, it is not slavery.
westrim:
Why does slavery keep getting brought up? They (the human and the AI) make a mutually agreed to contract, the human pays for whatever casing for the AI the human desires, and if/when the contract ends the human gets a full refund. Everything about it is completely voluntary and refundable; why is that hard to accept?
I can't decide whether I'm aggravated that I avoided getting commenting on this highly interesting tangent earlier or glad I avoided the time sink.
stoutfiles:
--- Quote from: westrim on 02 Sep 2011, 09:34 ---Why does slavery keep getting brought up? They (the human and the AI) make a mutually agreed to contract, the human pays for whatever casing for the AI the human desires, and if/when the contract ends the human gets a full refund. Everything about it is completely voluntary and refundable; why is that hard to understand?
I can't decide whether I'm aggravated that I avoided getting commenting on this highly interesting tangent earlier or glad I avoided the time sink.
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A lot of the problem is that this business model does not exist in real life, it is foreign and confusing. Nowhere can you buy something and then return it whenever you want for a full refund, no questions asked. Nowhere can you buy a product and not own it.
questionablecontentfan:
--- Quote from: Dust on 02 Sep 2011, 03:58 ---
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 02 Sep 2011, 02:42 ---Angus has caused Mari so much heartache, she's better off deleting him from her life.
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What? I really do hope you're not referring to what I think you are..
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What do you mean what you think? She should ditch Angus and get new friends. Angus is no friend, calling her a shut in weirdo. He's just an asshole, and she's better off without him as anything. He's not a friend at all.
Mr. Doctor:
I clearly don't get the "he's not a friend at all". If there's something I honestly believe in is that "friends are the ones who tell you when you have dirt on your face". That time he called her a shut in... He totally didn't say it in the right way, but he was completely right anyway.
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 02 Sep 2011, 10:05 ---A lot of the problem is that this business model does not exist in real life, it is foreign and confusing. Nowhere can you buy something and then return it whenever you want for a full refund, no questions asked. Nowhere can you buy a product and not own it.
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I thought that said problem could be easily solved by saying "This is a story, not fact... it's pure fiction, deal with it".
I mean, in that case there's NO WAY I would take any sci-fi movie seriously because I will probably say "hey, that's just bull****" all the time.
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