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WCDT: 2151-55 (26-30 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE... Week TEN!?!
Milesb:
was it a physical compliment? "is she nice" - "I think she's VERY nice"
If it was "Beautiful" or "Hot" or any other word which strongly evoked physical traits I'd be with you, but "nice" is a bit too generic. Nice person. Nice personality. Nice Body.
Could mean any of those things and a lot more besides, you know?
Throg:
Okay, finally put my finger on what seems a little off by this: it's way too much all at once.
Let's say that Hanners and Station are the same mental age, and it is like dating the Girl Next Door and a childhood friend. It still begs several really important questions:
(1) If AI's date other AI's, why would they even need to have a physical setting like a candlelit dinner table?
(2) Do AI's "date" humans? Has this ever been shown before?
(3) Was Hanners being intentionally oblivious, as Akima suggested, or was she assuming that Station might've been setting up a date for someone else?
While human-AI relationships might be taken for granted in the QCverse, on the readership, mind=blown. Or at least the forums, that nitpicked/discussed the hell out of AI rights.
sine-out:
--- Quote from: Throg on 30 Mar 2012, 10:45 ---(1) If AI's date other AI's, why would they even need to have a physical setting like a candlelit dinner table?
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Many AI's, I assume, exist in the real world as Anthro PC's. While they could have a 'date' by sharing network packets over the internet, since their intelligence seems to be modelled at least partially on human intelligence, it would seem they might share similar psychological norms to us.
--- Quote from: Throg on 30 Mar 2012, 10:45 ---(2) Do AI's "date" humans? Has this ever been shown before?
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As far as I am aware, it's not been actually shown, however, it's also not illegal for it to happen, when you combine that with Anthro PC chassis' that can be effectively indistinguishable from humans, it doesn't seem too far fetched.
--- Quote from: Throg on 30 Mar 2012, 10:45 ---(3) Was Hanners being intentionally oblivious, as Akima suggested, or was she assuming that Station might've been setting up a date for someone else?
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Hanners has been shown to be very perceptive and naive in separate instances. So, it could swing either way.
no one special:
I think a huge point being missed here is that it is being assumed that Station's hologram has always looked the way it looks now. I mean, it's just a hologram - it can look however it wants to look. Maybe Station appears used to project itself to Hannelore as her approximate age. Not that Station had to "grow up", but just that it wanted Hannelore to feel at ease, so it projected itself to her in a form that would be most soothing. Who knows?
Milesb:
I'm not gonna get heavily involved in the AI ethics/concepts stuff because I've not explored it before and I'm sure I'd need to read up on all the posts before I could meaningfully contribute..
That said: up until Hanners says "Oh no, I don't want to be a distraction!" isn't it quite plausible that Station perceives Hanner's comments as teasing him?
Edit: In the sense that she's playing along with it being her that station is talking about. Only when she's leaving does it seem obvious she didn't get it?
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