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WCDT 23-27 November 2015 (Strips 3096-3100)
moriastar:
Sorry if this seems off topic, but I'm curious where Jeff gets the pictures of the Turkeys. Does he do a google search or did he take them himself at some point at some turkey farm?
Tova:
--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Nov 2015, 15:43 ---Momo has given at least part of the answer herself. She believes that AIs that exhibit violent behaviour provoke "ZOMG!!! KILLER ROBOTZ!!!" fears, however unjustified, and potentially create anti-AI sentiment and prejudice.
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Okay. Fine. Apparently, we're all happy to believe that, because Momo disagrees with AIs getting involved in human military conflict specifically, then we're going to extrapolate from that one data point that surely she's upset at robots who fight through absolute necessity due to their unfortunate circumstances.
Here's where I get grumpy.
--- Quote ---If the fight club is exploitative, and robots are victims of circumstance that causes them to make the choice to fight, even against their own better interests, then Momo is way off base for being upset at the robots who fight.
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So, we're getting angry at Momo for failing to see that they are victims of circumstance, immediately after assuming that she must have failed to see, or has ignored, that they are victims of circumstance.
I can't get my head around the circular logic. You're begging the question.
So, could you possibly entertain the very very slight notion that she might not actually be upset at the robots who fight, for the very reasons you cited - that they are victims of circumstance? I'm sure she's upset at the necessity of it. But, "You don't blame the pawn for the chess player's strategies" - why are you assuming that she does? Maybe she does, but how about the benefit of the doubt?
DAMN YOU, CLOUD! *shakes fist*
Akima:
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Nov 2015, 16:39 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Nov 2015, 15:43 ---Momo has given at least part of the answer herself. She believes that AIs that exhibit violent behaviour provoke "ZOMG!!! KILLER ROBOTZ!!!" fears, however unjustified, and potentially create anti-AI sentiment and prejudice.
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Okay. Fine. Apparently, we're all happy to believe that, because Momo disagrees with AIs getting involved in human military conflict specifically, then we're going to extrapolate from that one data point that surely she's upset at robots who fight through absolute necessity due to their unfortunate circumstances.
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Er... What? I don't think I extrapolated anything.
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Nov 2015, 11:57 ---Why do you think she's upset at the robots who fight?
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But I do think I misread this sentence. I read it as "Why do you think she's upset at robots who fight?", rather than "Why do you think she's upset at the robots who fight?" referring specifically to the the fight-club robots. My bad and my apologies.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Nov 2015, 16:52 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Nov 2015, 11:57 ---Why do you think she's upset at the robots who fight?
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But I do think I misread this sentence. I read it as "Why do you think she's upset at robots who fight?", rather than "Why do you think she's upset at the robots who fight?" referring specifically to the the fight-club robots. My bad and my apologies.
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Ah! Thanks for clarifying that. I apologise as well for not realising that you were referring to AIs that exhibit violent behaviour in general rather than specifically the robots that fight at the rink. Yes, that's probably not an extrapolation.
Somebody:
Meanwhile, comic. In which we find that Faye is irreplaced.
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