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WCDT: 2151-55 (26-30 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE... Week TEN!?!
Binary:
Those of you creeped out by the thought that Station has been waiting for Hannelore to grow up? You REALLY don't want to read Robert Heinlein's "The Door Into Summer"! :evil:
Edited for those with no time to plough through the whole Wikipedia article:
(click to show/hide)Twelve-year-old girl and thirty-something engineer have a mutual crush. After some shenanigans with time travel and suspended animation that has the net effect of making her legal but with much less of a gulf in their relative ages, they get married.
Rimwolf:
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--- Quote from: dreed on 30 Mar 2012, 04:00 ---Hann will disappear from comic for a while. She will stay in station.
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FYP.
Am I the only one who finds this a little creepy? I mean Station knew her growing up, like, from when she was a little girl. I don't imagine Hannerdad would be very happy about this development; I wouldn't, if I was her parent.
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That's something that creeped me out a little about Jane Austen's Emma. Knightley has known her since her childhood (he's like 17 years older), and seems to have been waiting for her to mature a little. As I recall (it's been years since I read it), her father approved of the match.
Redball:
Prospects for Austen's heroines weren't very good in England of that era. I suppose that might apply to Hanners as well, given her current limitations.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
Yeah naw, Station, naw, this is hella creepy of you :( I am firmly in the Creepy Olympics camp, judging the A.I.
--- Quote from: jmucchiello on 30 Mar 2012, 14:12 ---
--- Quote from: Throg on 30 Mar 2012, 10:45 ---While human-AI relationships might be taken for granted in the QCverse, on the readership, mind=blown.
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This blows your mind? Really? Most people are being squikked I would think by the former babysitter aspect, not the human-AI "interfacing" aspect.
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Basically this. I think sapients of different species having relationships, in any kind of sci-fi, is pretty great, because it's love crossing barriers and blah blah blah unity warm fuzzy feelings, doubly so when robots + humans because awwww they do have souls along with all that. So that can be cute.
What's not cute is that Station was, as people have said, her babysitter and, worse, her therapist/counselor type AI thing. And now he wants to do the organic grossitude tango with her. Ew. Ew no.
Is it cold in here?:
Yes. Complete agreement that therapists should not get involved with patients. That's what bothered me most.
--- Quote from: alienatedduck on 31 Mar 2012, 00:52 ---The creepiest thing in this entire universe is robots with feelings.
BUT CAN THEY EVER TRULY LEARN TO LOVE?
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There's a thread about that, in fact. http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=27240.0
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