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WCDT: 2495-2499 (22-26 July, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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HeavyP:
Hi all!  Just figured I'd come out of semi-lurking to offer my thoughts as well: I don't see anything whatsoever wrong with Dale turning off his glasses.  For the folks comparing it to a coma, I don't think that's quite correct.  May established that her sentience is actually running on a server elsewhere, and she's merely being projected visually and aurally through his Glasses - turning off the Glasses is the equivalent of turning off the monitor and speakers while leaving your computer running (everything is still active, you just can't see or hear it).  Secondly, while I find May's antics mildly amusing sitting on this side of the monitor, if I was forced to deal with them the entire day (especially given that only the person wearing the Glasses can see or hear her), I'd be more than a little irritated.  Sure, it sucks if she's stuck in the server while the glasses are off.  But if I invite you into my home, and you then proceed to act like an ass and annoy the piss out of me all day, I am well within my rights to ask you to leave my house.  It's not my problem if, after you leave, the only place you have to go is back to is your home, to sit in your room and do nothing.  Maybe if you didn't act like such a Dickmouth Stinkface, I wouldn't have thrown you out.

ankhtahr:
Well yeah, her consciousness might still be running. That is actually what I'm afraid of. Think of being consciously awake, but being cut off from every kind of sensation. Being awake while not seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting or feeling anything. That seems to me like a nightmare that can drive people/conscious AI mad.

mtmerrick:

--- Quote from: Mlle Germain on 26 Jul 2013, 02:57 ---Edit: Just realised that what I wrote above might seem like I think it's ok to just let a sentient being sit in a server without much contact to the external world (although she has the internet to socialise).
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replace server with house and that's been my life for the past several years *shrugs*

Truec:
All you guys who think hat hsutting off the glasses kills May/puts her into a coma/ puts her into sensory deprivation seem to have forgotten that Pintsize used to get powered down a lot, and it was considered akin to sleep.

Also, she's not running on the glasses, she's just interfacing with Dale through them, she's running on a computer at a data center.

TinPenguin:

--- Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 26 Jul 2013, 03:46 ---
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 26 Jul 2013, 01:58 ---It's more like he put her in time-out.
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That's exactly what I was thinking... The whole idea of "killing her" never even occured to me until I read some posts.  :psyduck:
Also... by looking at her expressions right before being put in "time-out", I don't think she'll be mad... Maybe she just discovered what a *bleep* she has been towards him.

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As a follow-up to the whole 'time-out' concept, I want to add some speculation that may be relevant... May's age. Now, we don't know anything for certain, but it's been implied that companion AIs are assigned pretty early in their life. Momo is about 2.7 years old, and I think it's fair to assume she's been with Marigold most of that time. We don't know Pintsize's age, but he was with Marten for at least two years before the rest of the gang showed up, and he's never mentioned a previous vocation. It seems likely that an AI starting out as a companion is probably freshly 'hatched', especially on a new project like this.

What can we draw from this? First of all, May is very young. Secondly, she's spent most of her short life offering her services to other Glasses owners and being soundly rejected (which goes some way to explaining her attitude). Thirdly, and finally, although a newborn AI is far more advanced than a newborn meatbrain, she is still inexperienced, and lacking boundaries. Dale is educating her a little on that score.

Or I might be completely wrong, but it's something to think about.

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