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WCDT: 2251-2255 (13-17 August 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Tova:
--- Quote from: T on 14 Aug 2012, 00:06 ---You know, those laws are needed exactly because Singularity happened and not the opposite.
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So you say, but I don't see any evidence that they exist. These comics aren't created by Asimov. Jeph has even said somewhere (I don't remember where) that we are "lucky" the AIs like us - which is quite a long way from saying that they are bound by rules!
--- Quote from: T on 13 Aug 2012, 23:12 ---If you attack someone they will sue you, if your dog attack someone they will sue you, if an iPhone explodes and hurt someone they will sue Apple. If an AnthroPC hurt someone will they sue the AnthroPC, the owner or the maker?
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I don't know, and neither do you. Maybe it depends on the circumstances?
I take it from the question that you are implying that the resulting ambiguity of the answer requires that the laws exist - I disagree, and what's more, I don't even necessarily agree that it implies that they should exist.
But regardless of what I may think, I just don't see any evidence that they do exist.
foolsguinea:
Beyond being flat-chested, do Emily and Dora actually look alike? Because I thought Padma was really clearly Bizarro-Dora, but Emily doesn't seem much like Dora at all to me.
She is sort of like Padma in that they're both "wacky." But they're not the same there either: As I recall Padma was mostly oblivious to cues, bad at reading people, stuff like that. Emily is more interested in unusual experiences and has unusual desires, and is indifferent to others' expectations and norms.
Hm. Marten is passive, Dora is anxious, Faye is PTSD, Hanners is OCD, Marigold is social anxiety/avoidant I think. Emily is funny-eccentric, while Wil is dramatic-eccentric. Pintsize is a prankster, Clinton is a socially awkward fan/enthusiast, Sven is self-destructive, Padma is oblivious.
It takes a certain something to put together characters that have this mix of neuroses and write them reasonably consistently and sympathetically, and be funny. Observation of the human condition, with both enough sympathy to like these people and enough abstraction of self to torment them, play them off each other, and generally put them through stuff.
snubnose:
I dont get Fayes statement "Not much of a pursuit, if you ask me".
--- Quote from: T on 14 Aug 2012, 00:06 ---
--- Quote from: snubnose on 13 Aug 2012, 23:55 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 13 Aug 2012, 20:35 ---The Three Laws of QC are probably written up like this;
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OMG can we PLEASE NOT GO THERE.
The Singularity happends, robots are sentient and dont need a set of mechanical laws to control their actions.
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You know, those laws are needed exactly because Singularity happened and not the opposite.
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Drat.
And so I fueled the discussion I tried to stop !
Assimov has written many stories about the three laws. Basically one can summarize the result as: they just dont work. Neither will probably any other set of simple mechanical laws.
Fortunately, thanks to the singularity, robots are as intelligent as people now and can follow their own common sense.
Tova:
I think Faye said that because Dora didn't require too much chasing in the end.
And, Hannelore: go for it. Can I help? :-P
WAYF:
I want to see a courtroom-based spin-off of QC now.
DORA BIANCHI: JUDGE, JURY AND SEXECUTIONER.
Or at the very least I'd like a poster with Dora and those words on it. :P
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