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Robots and love
Skewbrow:
Didn't the guy running the holistic detective agency encounter an Electric Monk? An AI specifically designed to believe in various things so that human beings could spend their time on other stuff. Pretty much the same principle as with VCRs watching the tv programs for us.
Random Al Yousir:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Oct 2011, 11:30 ---You would like the book "How to be a perfect stranger", which explains how and how not to behave at weddings, funerals, religious services of other religions. It's probably in the social protocol database.
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Whooo. A social protocol database for non-artificial intelligences. Nice!
Personally, I found that telling the people that I'm an atheist helps a great deal in these matters. I get first class, comprehensive explanations, it's practically impossible to ask stupid questions (although I never tested this out ambitiously) and I guess I could get away with quite some unfit behaviour, if I failed to "get" some point.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 05 Oct 2011, 13:42 ---Didn't the guy running the holistic detective agency encounter an Electric Monk? An AI specifically designed to believe in various things so that human beings could spend their time on other stuff. Pretty much the same principle as with VCRs watching the tv programs for us.
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The electric monk was not designed by humans at all; it only looked human because its originators didn't want anyone to get it confused with a real person and picked the ugliest design they could think of. Pink skin and only two eyes? Ludicrous.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Andy147 on 07 Oct 2011, 13:46 ---
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 06 Oct 2011, 13:42 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 05 Oct 2011, 13:42 ---Didn't the guy running the holistic detective agency encounter an Electric Monk? An AI specifically designed to believe in various things so that human beings could spend their time on other stuff. Pretty much the same principle as with VCRs watching the tv programs for us.
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The electric monk was not designed by humans at all; it only looked human because its originators didn't want anyone to get it confused with a real person and picked the ugliest design they could think of. Pink skin and only two eyes? Ludicrous.
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A pedant writes... they were given an extra eye (making for a grand total of two), and were designed to look artificial rather than ugly. (And they were restricted to just two legs so they could ride horses and thus look more sincere).
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I bow to your superior fandom knowledge.
Yarin:
I'm just going to point out that its a comic people an amazing comic but a comic none the less :psyduck:
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