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WCDT Strips 3486 to 3490 (22 to 26 May 2017)
Kugai:
At least they've gotten their first paying customer/repair job under their collective belts.
Is it just me, or can anyone else hear Jerri Ryan's Seven of Nine voice when Bubbles makes that statement in the last Panel.
TheEvilDog:
Lesson learned here, never accept any currency from Pintsize. Ever.
ChipNoir:
Perhaps its just me being sleepy, but I find it kinda interesting that AI's can show disgust for 'gross things' despite having no biological empathy.
Unless I'm mistaken, AI's don't feel 'pain', as highly implied by the sheer amount of physical destruction all the AI's have endured across the comics, usually being the punchline that they can take damage to their chasis, but keep coming back for more. To hurt an AI is more of a moral thing; abusing their freedom, their status as none human, and other existential rights.
Yet Momo has often balked at vulgarity, and just now Momo shows disgust at the money being damp. AI's can't contract physical disease, and they (presumably) don't usually engage is the more 'icky' bodily features (Eating, pooping, having sex) as far as we know.
So where does the sense of disgust for things come from? Is it something that they've adapted as second nature in emulating humanity? Is it the alien quality of biological function?
I'm too tired to grapple with this thought bubble, but yeah. What do you guys thing on the nature of "icky" for a being that has no biological imperatives, and thus, no direct understanding of the experience?
BenRG:
I think that the point is, Faye, can you afford not to be the guys who make sexual organ emulators for perverted synthetics on a budget? That's the problem that many a struggling new business has asked: what price ethics? Additionally at what point are you letting personal aesthetic qualms masquerade as ethics? One thing is sure here: Faye is going to do this and, based on her expression, she's regretting it already.
--- Quote from: ChipNoir on 25 May 2017, 21:11 ---Perhaps its just me being sleepy, but I find it kinda interesting that AI's can show disgust for 'gross things' despite having no biological empathy.
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They still have a sense of propriety and aesthetics and these (as with all social beings) are strongly influenced by the norms of the society and culture in which they live.
In any case, they have the ability to learn from experience. One thing Bubbles has learned is that money shouldn't be damp. One other thing she's learned is that something damp coming from Pintsize should set your imagination racing.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: ChipNoir on 25 May 2017, 21:11 ---Perhaps its just me being sleepy, but I find it kinda interesting that AI's can show disgust for 'gross things' despite having no biological empathy.
Unless I'm mistaken, AI's don't feel 'pain', as highly implied by the sheer amount of physical destruction all the AI's have endured across the comics, usually being the punchline that they can take damage to their chasis, but keep coming back for more. To hurt an AI is more of a moral thing; abusing their freedom, their status as none human, and other existential rights.
Yet Momo has often balked at vulgarity, and just now Momo shows disgust at the money being damp. AI's can't contract physical disease, and they (presumably) don't usually engage is the more 'icky' bodily features (Eating, pooping, having sex) as far as we know.
So where does the sense of disgust for things come from? Is it something that they've adapted as second nature in emulating humanity? Is it the alien quality of biological function?
I'm too tired to grapple with this thought bubble, but yeah. What do you guys thing on the nature of "icky" for a being that has no biological imperatives, and thus, no direct understanding of the experience?
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From the way Momo (it was her or Hanners) explained how the AI mind works, I'd wadger that it largely stems from 'emulating humanity'. Though, AI/robots finding organic beings revolting is something of a long-standing sci-fi trope.
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