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WCDT Strips 3521 to 3525 (10th to 14th July 2017)

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Undrneath:

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Jeph has long established that AI's have definite gender identities.  And I would assume that a female AI in a male chassis would have the same body dysphoria as a trans person.

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http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=347

According to Pintsize (an unreliable narrator if ever there was one), 

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The way I understood that comic was gender identity was factory set in one of the three options listed. But it has been years since then and Jeph seems to have redefined how AIs are brought into existence.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: emeraldphantom on 12 Jul 2017, 14:24 ---

I don't totally understand why everyone keeps talking about this possibly being a gay thing....... Bubs is an AI......... there is no real gender. If bubbles got a different body SHE could suddenly be a HE.


Literally Bubbles is nothing more than a consciousness in a replaceable robot body.

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Welcome, new person!

We do know that every time an AI in QC changes bodies they keep the same gender presentation. It would fit the facts if they have an innate gender identity the way carbon-based people do.

DSL:
Worth considering, is it not, that the person writing the current strips is, owing to life experiences and other things contriubting to maturity, not quite the same person who wrote the linked strip? -- it's an argument I've been wanting to make occasionally on this forum and the forum related to another long-running (now re-running) webcomic that shares considerable fandom overlap with this one.

flondrix:

--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 12 Jul 2017, 16:51 ---
--- Quote from: flondrix on 12 Jul 2017, 16:09 ---http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=347

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I am honestly not sure how valid the points of these are in the comic today either. That one is very old, and Jeph's thoughts on AI and gender theory have evolved since then. He's never said anything that contradicts that comic. But it's also never been referenced again, and all of the AIs in the comic have a very solid gender identity that has not changed since their introduction.

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One caveat:  He said that gender was a software setting, but he did not say that the AI itself could reset it.  It is possible that changing the setting may require that the AI shut down, have someone else change the setting, and reboot.  This would require a level of trust equivalent to the trust Bubbles placed in corpsewitch (how did she get that name, BTW?  I remember Faye calling her that, but was it really her name?) and would not be done lightly.

TheEvilDog:
Comic's up and I definitely think that Jeph is taking a not-so-subtle dig at shipping and how people misconstrue interactions.  :roll:

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