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WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)

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oeoek:
Today's comic is a nice reminder of certain problems around AI's. In a way. Sam and Momo hanging out makes perfect sense, they pretty much look and act like girlfriends (frog lord) They are both still very much exploring and questioning the world.
But in a way, Momo -and all AI's- are very different in childhood. Able to download massive amounts of data and protocols might make 4 year old Momo a suitable 'babysitter' (with the much needed more impulse control than the average fourteen year old). But just downloading data and protocols does not make a grown-up, and Momo is -like Sam- still in a process of figuring out what it all means (her talk with Bubbles is a good example I think). Her reaction is indeed not that mature if I try to imagine how for example Veronica might have handled it. Interesting...

And yes, there was that Sven-moment...

BenRG:
It occurs to me that Sam is at just the right age where her hormone balances are changing and she's started to possibly start to feel attraction to others. It makes sense that she'd turn to her closest 'similar age' (adolescent or equivalent) friend to discuss this.

Here is a thought: QC started out very much as the story of Marten trying to get his life back together, post-Vicky. This meta-arc has more-or-less concluded now. There are only a few more serious steps for Jeph to dramatise before we can say Marten's arc is completely wrapped up. Similarly, one of the B-arcs, Dora's attempt to find stability in her life, seems to be approaching or even at a conclusion. I suspect that Jeph has decided to focus on a few new arcs to take over as the central plank of the strip.

* Faye getting her life back together and, perhaps, finding a purpose in life;
* Bubbles' story (and, to a broader extent, criminality and exploitation within the AI community);
* The relationship between humans and AIs, as symbolised by Momo's anthrosexuality.I am arguing that, in some ways, we could consider the time skip at the start of this year as being the beginning of "Questionable Content v.2.0"

Method of Madness:
I wonder what the conversion rate is from robot to human years.

osaka:
I'm guessing is not a linear scale and most likely depends on the model, specially taking into account the specializations different chassis can give. Hell, we could consider the original Pintzise chassis (way back at QC 1) to be equivalent to a talking baby, since he basically couldn't move on his own.

Zebediah:

--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 21 Feb 2016, 21:21 ---Come to think of it, Sam's probably had a few sex ed classes.  Plus, there is a computer (not referring to Momo) in her room.  Even with a porn blocker, there's more than a few Wikipedia articles about human sexuality that could be read.

--- End quote ---

Absolutely. In Massachusetts sex ed classes start in sixth grade (ages 11-12). Fifth grade if you count discussion of puberty, though they don't cover the sexual aspects of it in until sixth grade. So Sam definitely should have learned about sex by now.

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