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WCDT Strips 3306 - 3310 (12th to 16th September 2016)
JimC:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 12 Sep 2016, 02:10 ---On top of that, if an AI created a device that no science can adequately explain, there's ten different reasons why this special device would not be crammed into consumer electronics.
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Not quite convinced, consider the work that's been done on genetic algorithms and evolved circuits - eg Thompson http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.9691&rep=rep1&type=pdf . There's a possible line of development there.
ysth:
No WTF Macchiato?
jheartney:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 12 Sep 2016, 02:10 ---I have to accept the poetic license of the world, which I'm prepared to do, but the comic that tries to be exposition-y and creates more issues than it solves kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Yeah, I tried to say something similar a few days ago and nobody much liked that either. It's a bit of a failure of world-building, with the caveat that Jeph is obviously more interested in funny storylines than in world-building. If the storylines are funny enough, we don't care about how unlikely they are.
Jakk Frost:
Honestly, I think the issue is that we understand how a lot of these things work, we just don't understand why they work.
jwhouk:
Re: that last one on morituri's list - already been done.
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