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WCDT: 2281-85 (24-28 September 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
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--- Quote from: Exar_Kun on 26 Sep 2012, 12:07 ---Also, is it a crime to upgrade an AnthroPC against their will? Like if you took an AI that was perfectly comfortable being a toaster and forced it into a full-size chassis? Would that be the equivalent of torture? Would people have to invent new terminology for something like that?
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It's probably the same as performing a sex change operation on someone who didn't want one. Also it makes me wonder if some AIs are programmed to like what they are, like toaster ones. Or that some are unhappy in their current designation/chasis and rather want to be in a AI of nuclear submarine. It might be unethical to deny their 'operation'.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 26 Sep 2012, 00:32 ---
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 25 Sep 2012, 19:57 ---And judging by the last name, she's Japanese.
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More than that, her name's a straight shout-out to the author of Azumanga Daioh, which is one of Jeph's big influences.
I'm a little surprised by Jeph's saying that the questions are really offensive, though. They seem a little naive, bordering on tactless, but really no different from the sort of questions that form part of small-talk in our universe.
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In the context of a long difficult civil rights struggle (probably still going on, because those things don't get settled in just one lifetime), naive and tactless become offensive. Didn't Jeph say the word "owner" has now become politically incorrect?
Asking Momo why she isn't a toaster might be like asking an African-American doctor why she isn't in a minstrel show. Being a CS major does not prevent prejudice, or more charitably, failure to internalize recent social changes.
Hmm: if you pay a fee to a matchmaker, that doesn't mean you're buying a spouse. (Though Exar-Kun's point still holds. I would be seriously creeped out by a matchmaker with a line of prospects sitting on a shelf). If your laptop is free to walk away at any time, you don't own it, which means the transaction which brought it into your home or office was not a purchase. If you don't own it, then you don't own improvements to it, and wouldn't be expected to pay for them.
There was a scene in the LANPark where one of the AnthroPCs had been modded without his permission. That would presumably be illegal today.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Sep 2012, 12:53 ---Asking Momo why she isn't a toaster might be like asking an African-American doctor why she isn't in a minstrel show.
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I couldn't disagree more, considering she's saying she'd want to be a toaster. I'd say it's more asking a doctor why they're a doctor and not whatever your dream job is. Odd, sure, but not prejudiced.
Is it cold in here?:
Ah. Good point. We shouldn't interpret Emily in normal terms.
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Sep 2012, 12:53 ---
... Didn't Jeph say the word "owner" has now become politically incorrect?
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There was a scene in the LANPark where one of the AnthroPCs had been modded without his permission. That would presumably be illegal today.
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It happened twice in with the neckbeard one, and the one with the chasis window, seem it's also fine to use the O-word among themselves. Further O-word usages among themselves and to humans: 123, 234, 347, 428, 668
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