Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
Method of Madness:
I don't think she's either. I think she's some sort of minor deity.
wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 10 Jun 2015, 18:26 ---Nope. I think she's mostly human. With a few artificial preservatives.
--- End quote ---
This is my gut feeling as well. But I'll bet she remembers when there _were_ sentient machines walking around.
ReindeerFlotilla:
Alice is human, IMO. She could be AI, but her comment makes me think that this isn't related to QC in any way.
I think she's human partly because I can't imagine a self-aware machine failing to move past whatever hostility she has against the trees after a millennium, but I can see a human holding grude forever, if they want to enough.
BenRG:
The level of venom in Alice's statements the most recent strips strongly implies to me that she is either an exile or someone who rejected the attitudes of the space-borne society despite choosing to use their methods.
"Alice Grove" - The tree reference does make you think, now Gavia has used a 'forest' metaphor to describe her own home culture. Alice has as much as said that she is, in a way, the Presides to the townsfolk, hasn't she?
I am hoping that volume 3 will be mostly Alice and Amos explaining the schism of humanity from the perspective of those left behind on a supposedly-doomed Earth. Also, I think, from the perspective of one of a very special breed of being who had been created to serve and to protect and didn't accept her peers' arguments that the planet and those determined to live on it by the old ways were somehow a lost cause. Someone who, instead, chose to keep faith with her creators under the terms they set and not her own. One, perhaps, tired after too long labouring alone, who needs to be reminded of the joys of her chosen course.
The sALICaceae are the willow family of trees.
Wildroses:
My first confused thought when I read the comic was: "Gavia's ancestors wanted to be free of earth so they grew a forrest of trees to get away from it? I do not think they know what earth is and how important earth is for a forest." But yes, a misreading, free of the toil and burden of the earth as in place is what she meant.
My first thought at the last panel wasn't: "Alice is about to reveal she is an AI" it was "Alice is about to reveal the Praeses are AIs". From her delivery and how pissed off Alice is with Gavia right now, I'm thinking the Praeses don't want people to know they are AIs for some reason.
From the way Amos thinks the story is them throwing the spaceborn out for being jerks, I think it is possible the people on this planet are not being forced by Alice to have what the spaceborn would consider primitive lifestyles and their level of technology is by choice. Their ancestors may be people who felt that technology had led them somewhere really bad that must never be repeated. If I had to guess, I'd say the creation of an intelligent AI had something to do with this conviction.
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