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The In Hindsight thread
Kugai:
Fred Dagg would approve.
foolsguinea:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 19 May 2017, 00:52 ---Traditions are different here and there.
Most parents pick out names for their child before they ever even meet them. Which took me some time to wrap my head around, because it was always different for us; the whole extended family would be there when a new child got home and they'd spend a couple of days trying to figure out what the name was. (Right. Figure out what it WAS, under the assumption that it already existed, rather than try to make one up).
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I have an aunt who, the story goes, took several days to name. I think her older sister nixed a name or two with which she had bad associations: mean cousins or other kids at school.
Morituri:
I'm probably the last generation that could get away with that; in the US anyway, I hear they get really upset these days if you try to take the child home before you commit to a name for the birth certificate. To hear Mom tell it, it was a huge fight even for me, and that was decades ago, before the so-called "war on terror" got going.
And when I got home the first thing my great-aunt Mollie did was feed me my pinch of dirt. Now THAT goes all the way back across centuries, doesn't it? Must've worked though; I got no allergies to anything. Or maybe I was never going to have allergies to anything regardless, but whatever.
Moggie:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 20 May 2017, 04:41 ---"I will name him Arthur."
"And the other five?"
"I will also name them Arthur."
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Or Zathras :-).
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: blt on 18 May 2017, 19:08 ---Bumping this again; how did May not have a name until Dale gave her one? Did she have an old one and abandoned it with her old life? Or are AI like the pixies from Gunnerkrigg Court?
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Upon generation and installation on host media Artificial Intelligence entities get a build number and MAC address combination which is perfectly adequate for AI-AI relationships and communications. Names come up when they have to interact with MIs (Meat Intelligence entities).
Or at least that's how I'm going to read it until Jeph says otherwise.
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