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WCDT: 2500-2504 (29 July- August 2, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
DSL:
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--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 31 Dec 1969, 16:00 ---Maybe I'm considering the AIs in the QCverse to be more "human" than they are, but that's something only Jeph could detail. I also don't really think that new AIs are "created" by humans. Once the first AI was brought to life I think they could reproduce (if they have the hardware)
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Now I want to see an inbred AI...
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Well, MAYbe you have.
(Gordon? It's time for your performance review. Maybe you should upload yourself into a bipedal chassis and sit down.)
Carl-E:
Ah yes, one of those questions that answers itself....
"Am I fired?"
cesium133:
Thinking of installing AIs on automatically-flushing toilets: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23575249
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 04 Aug 2013, 09:35 ---The NSA WISHES they could get access to everything Google has on all of us.
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This reminds me of movies where FBI and CIA officers have to have clandestine meetings by eating lunch on the same bench on the mall in Washington because of sources and methods secrecy requirements.
I'm imagining a scene where a Google employee in workout clothes jogging past Shoreline Amphitheater towards the bay has a "clandestine" meeting with a NSA operative wearing a suit who's trying to catch up.
wiserd:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 02 Aug 2013, 02:35 ---
--- Quote from: wiserd on 02 Aug 2013, 00:51 ---Is it just me or does May really not seem female. I mean, I'm not taking issue with the portrayal since gender is likely a rather arbitrary construct for AI. But so far, pintsize has seemed very 'male' and Momo has seemed very 'female.'
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Maybe you just need to re-evaluate your gender constructs.
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So far, the comic has hewn pretty close to my gender constructs. Thus, I don't think it's unreasonable for me to play "one of these things is not like the other" where the AIs are concerned.
I am curious, though. If someone wanted to be transgender would you advise them to 'just re-evaluate their gender constructs?' This is a sincere (but not personal) question. I ask this because the acceptance of trans-sexuality/body dysmorphic disorder/whatever as something "real" rather than an arbitrary or learned choice seems to indicate a pretty deep-seated human connection with a certain gender that precedes any constructs society might impose. People tried doing random gender reassignment on hermaphrodites a few decades ago, based on the notion that gender identification was arbitrary. The results are currently believed to have been pretty disastrous. This suggests that whatever gender is, it is more than just a social construct. As offensive or threatening as that notion may be to some people.
Granted, an AI might not be shaped by some of the same psychological and social forces that humans are. Perhaps an AI would not be afraid of rape the way that a human female would, resulting in a different persona. And some people are outliers because of personal experience, biologically based proclivity or what have you. But don't you think that Pintsize's character is pretty stereotypically male? And why would an AI (Pintsize) be deliberately programmed to like porn? There's something about the AI creation process in this world that is not strictly utilitarian, and seems to be a copying of the human psyche, warts and all.
Considering that Jeph has been clearly willing to address notions of identity politics in his comics, and that each character's psychology seems based on a fairly rich back story, this makes me wonder what he plans to do with May and where she comes from.
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