Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)
Mad Cat:
--- Quote from: Case on 13 Jul 2016, 05:58 ---Wouldn't she have to (be shown to) actually connect with an AI in order to base conclusions regarding her psyche on (the observation of) said connection?
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Desire to do a thing often tells us just as much if not more about a person than actual capability to do that thing. Brün feels no attraction to the extrant examples of carbon based life forms, but is attracted to a profane bucket of bolts. Though, to be fair, she doesn't (yet) realized how profane he is, though his choice of moniker should be a clue.
retrosteve:
Beucephalus is indeed a famous horse, but it literally means 'ox-head'.
So that's at least two body parts Pintsize might have been referring to.
Case:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 13 Jul 2016, 06:08 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 13 Jul 2016, 05:58 ---Wouldn't she have to (be shown to) actually connect with an AI in order to base conclusions regarding her psyche on (the observation of) said connection?
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Desire to do a thing often tells us just as much if not more about a person than actual capability to do that thing. Brün feels no attraction to the extrant examples of carbon based life forms, but is attracted to a profane bucket of bolts. Though, to be fair, she doesn't (yet) realized how profane he is, though his choice of moniker should be a clue.
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Desire - if that is actually what motivates Brun, I'd think that if anything, 'preference' would be more appropriate - tells us that something is desired, nothing else. Pintsize being AI, and not human is just one of the differences between his pic and the others: It would be as valid to assume that she has a preference for ancient Greek history, or the movie "American Beauty" (*).
Provided that there was indeed a consensus amongst psychologists about the possibility to reliably infer preference based on choices between items in a set of four.
To base conclusions about the quality of her connections with AIs/humans - without actual observation of any interaction with AIs - on such a small and "noisy" (**) dataset strikes me as ...
... Questionable? :laugh:
"When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel." - Robin Hobb
(*) Also, I don't really see much indication about Brun's intentions to "do a(ny) thing" - it's Renee's phone, and likely her Tinder account. I'd think it more likely that she doesn't intend to meet with any of them, and is merely curious about Pintsize being ... a curiosity?
(**) "Noisy" in the sense that "human/AI" is not the only variable shown, and hence not the only property that choice could be based upon.
sitnspin:
On Jayden and Braydon: My assumption, based on the same background, clothes, and pose, albeit reversed, is that it is in fact the same picture just cropped to only include the individuals in question. The original picture is of both of them together. Siblings seems likely. There's also the exes possibility. There are those weird couples out there with rhyming names.
Zebediah:
Or even the same name - I know a couple where both are named Bradley (though the guy goes by Brad.) I also used to know a Martin and Martha who went by Marty and Marti (they have since split.) Then there are my friends Christine and Kristin. :roll:
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