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WCDT: 2495-2499 (22-26 July, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
kyomi:
TinPenguin... you've put my thoughts into words :)
It's exactly what I was thinking.. but apparently couldn't find the right way to say it :)
--- Quote from: Truec on 26 Jul 2013, 10:17 ---she's just interfacing with Dale
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My brain is so corrupted.. I laughed at that bit because I thought it looked like a sex joke -_-
CrowFairy:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 26 Jul 2013, 10:02 ---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.
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Yeah, that's honestly what bothers me about it. Locked-In Syndrome is one of my worst nightmares. I have occasional bouts of sleep paralysis, and it's seriously terrifying. It happens without permission, and it shuts down your entire ability to move for up to a minute. (Not to mention if it cascades into itself over and over for an hour.) (click to show/hide)Sleep paralysis! Okay, I'm fine. Nope--have some more sleep paralysis! Okay...
Imagine that someone else has the power to control whether you can see, hear, and move. Imagine that they decide that you don't deserve to see, hear, and move. And they turn you off. And you're unsure of how long this will last. It could be an hour. It could be a day. It could be a week, a month, a year, a decade, an eternity. It's not your choice. And the only person who can choose that is someone who isn't you. They have a button they can push, and you wink out until they choose to let you come back.
If she's running in a server, that's basically what's happening. Pintsize is a little different because he is basically going to sleep. He isn't running at all during that time, so it could technically be like a coma for him. Also terrifying but in a different way.
May is probably aware that she's locked in this box, her consciousness still running, and she knows that she is stuck in there until someone decides to let her out. If the server is running, then she's "awake." If she's in that state of wakefulness but can't go anywhere, then that would be a legitimately upsetting experience.
(Edited for misplaced parenthesis.)
KOK:
--- Quote from: HeavyP on 26 Jul 2013, 09:15 ---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).
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Turning off the glasses was like hanging up the phone. In this case a phone with video.
We do not know what sensory equipment May has available besides the glasses. That she is in sensory deprevation is mere speculation.
TinPenguin:
I hardly think the Glasses creators would design a system that sends the AI to a living hell for eight hours just because the owner of the Glasses turned them off when they went to bed.
KOK:
--- Quote from: kyomi on 26 Jul 2013, 08:46 ---I like her.. I hope there's more of her and this isn't like another "station" bit.. where there's a week and that's it :/
I also think this is the first time that I've actually seen Dale's eyes
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It is not. The first times we saw him, his glasses did not glow. He was introduced in 1640. He met Marigold for thye first time in 1668 and again in 1680. The glowing glasses came later.
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