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WCDT: Strips 2892 to 2896 (9th - 13th February 2015)
TheCaffeinatedPanda:
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--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 12 Feb 2015, 21:28 ---Does Pintsize even know Claire is transgendered? Aside from the paddling (the only known instance that Claire has met Pinysize), has Marten even told Pintsize this fact?
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course, having the ability and lack of personal boundaries to find out doesn't mean that he would tactlessly reveal. We know that Pintsize has more of a social conscience than to which he publicly will confesses; he would be more than aware that trans people face prejudice and I think he would have hard-coded behavioural red lines (similar to Asimov's First Law) that would prevent him from talking about her status in mixed company without her permission.
However, I wonder if the same hard-coded safety protocol would impel Pintsize to discuss this matter privately with Claire to get her instructions and ensure she is being honest with Marten. Because he would be impelled to protect Marten from possible harm too.
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Jeph said in a QA dump ages ago that AI in the QCverse has full autonomy, which means that Asimov's laws of robotics don't apply.
That said, Pintsize had that discussion with Momo in which he actually seriously discussed being a companion AI, so I should imagine he has the sense to leave it alone. I think it's been mentioned before, but with the way AnthroPC gender works, I doubt it'd really even cross his mind as something to be insensitive about.
(Hi everyone, new to the forum, long time reader, etc)
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: TheCaffeinatedPanda on 13 Feb 2015, 04:34 ---(Hi everyone, new to the forum, long time reader, etc)
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Greetings and Salutations!
bhtooefr:
It is worth noting that there's a paradigm shift in how QC handles issues like that, and the discussion of how AI gender works may well have been invalidated by that shift, considering that it's an owner-adjustable setting, and Jeph appears to have conflated sex and gender at that time to an extent: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=347
If I had to guess, the AI civil rights laws most likely made it illegal for an owner to change an AI's gender setting against the AI's express consent. (And, based on other QC comics that were also pre-AI civil rights, that setting change most likely comes with the attendant personality changes. Or, is the gender setting actually a "kinda sorta sex" setting, that basically sets the AI's "hormonal balance"? If that's the case, it's very possible for a trans AI to exist, and changing a "gender" setting against an AI's will would be sheer torture I'd guess, not just an involuntary mindswap, essentially.)
Endellion:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Feb 2015, 00:47 ---
--- Quote from: Endellion on 12 Feb 2015, 21:46 ---...and if that's a borrowed shirt it's probably best that she didn't wear (one of) the THE shirts Marten has*, that might be worse than sharing the same plumage
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She has, you may recall, a TEH shirt of her own which she rejected wearing on a previous occasion.
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Well aware of that :D. I'm a bit of a whore for linking old strips to my comments, but I thought that adding a third to a relatively short post was a bit much. Hence the nitpick comment in the small text at the bottom of my last response.
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