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WCDT: 2500-2504 (29 July- August 2, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
GarandMarine:
For the record. I know women who make May seem like a goddamn fairy tale princess. They are most assuredly female, and can be feminine... sorta... rarely. But it happens. They certainly aren't dudes though.
rschill:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 05 Aug 2013, 22:17 ---For the record. I know women who make May seem like a goddamn fairy tale princess. They are most assuredly female, and can be feminine... sorta... rarely. But it happens. They certainly aren't dudes though.
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I kinda like women like that.
Masterpiece:
I'm fairly certain scientists in the qcverse have a hard time explaining AIs as well. I'm not going to evaluate how wiserd sees a personality, but I will say that that approach works only for humans themselves.
Now if I recall correctly then the AIs in the qcverse are emergent, aka a group of scientists accidentally managed to build an AI. How do you know what its drives, wishes, ego are, when you have no idea what's causing them in the first place?
Is it cold in here?:
By using the discipline of Interspecific Co-agency.
It's an idea from science fiction. The actual term was coined by academics in the author's universe to describe what traders were already doing with "incomprehensible" aliens. The traders simply assumed the aliens were doing what the aliens wanted to do, and judged intentions by actions.
An example of how thinking about action could overcome communications problems came up in the story when someone asked an alien how he felt about the near-genocide of his species. The alien said it was funny. The someone almost blew a fuse, then remembered his training and rephrased the question as "What would you do to the person responsible if you found him?". The alien said "That would depend on whether we could come up with something equally funny to do in return".
It's only a heuristic, and it works best with mentally healthy members of a species. We could use it to choose ethical conduct toward Momo and Winslow, for example.
Akima:
--- Quote from: wiserd on 05 Aug 2013, 19:28 ---
--- Quote ---such as doubting if a person can "really be" their gender given certain behaviors.
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I assume you're not quoting me, here.
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--- Quote from: wiserd on 02 Aug 2013, 00:51 ---Is it just me or does May really not seem female.
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Your earlier posting certainly expressed doubt about May's femaleness based on her behaviour.
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