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WCDT Strips 3451-3455 (3rd to 7th April 2017)

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BenRG:
I seem to remember reading this conversation before... Ah, I remember! Momo was talking to someone about the difference between learning to dance and being programmed to dance. There does seem to be a qualitative difference to an AI between physically assimilating information by interpreting and comprehending the input from their senses and just having data poured directly into their memories.

Now, why is Bubbles not sinking into the couch a lot more? Is she actually sitting down at all or is she actually squatting in vaguely the right posture to look like she's sitting? The alternative explanation is that the couch is so beaten up and so stiffened by various 'accidents' over the years that it's nearly rock-hard!


--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Apr 2017, 21:59 ---Pintsize indeed seems to desire others to have a low opinion of him.
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This has always been a curious part of Pintsize's personality. The only two explanations I've ever had for this are:

* He wants to be considered a vile pervert for some reason;
* He literally doesn't understand what what he does is socially unacceptable.I find the second option less likely because Pintsize himself often expresses his disappointment if his behaviour doesn't create a strong enough reaction. So, yeah, it is entirely possible that lots of AIs are working under a subconscious need to behave in a way considered 'human' to be more socially integrated.

JimC:

--- Quote from: Storel on 05 Apr 2017, 14:22 --- All it means is that if Faye and Bubbles fall behind on their rent, Dora is responsible for paying it.
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*All* it means?? Dora's business may well be adequately profitable (can't be bothered to look up references, but that's the way that it seems), but I can't imagine its generating so much spare cash she could afford a second commercial lease. Not if she's thrown into deep concern about a coffee machine breaking (1260).

Neko_Ali:
I imagine they have to warn everyone of Pintsize's nature if they are going to be spending a lot of time at the apartment, much less living there. And he certain is aware of how me comes off, and does so deliberately. Consider the time he paid May to engage in a little face sitting. He was doing it entirely for the perverse thrill but found it didn't have the same meaning if there wasn't a human involved to be offended. He takes his duties as a perverted little jester seriously though. He does what he does to spark emotion and reaction in people. Whether to distract them from their problems, give them a safe target to work out frustrations on or just get people talking. And yes, sometimes just to shock and outrage for his own amusement.

JoeCovenant:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 05 Apr 2017, 09:49 ---Bubbles has stated that she wants to have as little to do with the Skate Park as possible. She certainly doesn't want to work there anymore.

Just consider: If you'd had an explosive collar fitted and been enslaved by someone who originally presented themselves to you as a therapist (the closest human equivalent to what Corpse Witch did to Bubbles), would you be willing to work in the same place again full-time, no matter how totally the management had changed?

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As a part-owner? Damn right I would! Just to stab it home even further that my Nemesis had been crushed... but then my ego is huge (sometimes).

However, that doesn't alter the fact that (as I said above) they could still work for Jeremy/Punchbot from their own premises.
Nor does it alter the fact that they came away with nothing, while Jeremy and Punchbot (who did nothing re: CW and her downfall) got the golden goose!

BenRG:
You're you, Joe; you're not Bubbles. I genuinely believe that she doesn't want to work there apart from the very occasional 'home visit' and she certainly doesn't want anything that was Corpse Witch's. Can you respect that?

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