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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 17 Aug 2017, 22:31 ---Just a thought: It just occurred to me that Momo was aware of the "criminal hitchhiker" while May was participating in the virtual companion program. Not just of her present, but also of her status. Does this mean that there is some way for AI to detect and identify each other other than visual identification? Though it might possibly be explained as a flag for convict.
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Part of Momo's duties at the library include catching students making improper or illegal use of the WiFi. She installed an ap that lets her know what's going on the local hub.
(I just made that up.)
flondrix:
--- Quote from: miados on 17 Aug 2017, 22:55 ---plus when momo got a new body he didn't know she wasnt in the old chasis until he hooked up a connector to her old body and saw it was empty.
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I wonder about this process of transfer. It seems that each time an AI does this, the copy in the original body gets wiped. That makes it very risky, since something might happen to garble new copy as happened when Momo first transferred in strip 2000. Can AIs make backup copies of themselves? I don't buy that the soul is some sort of quantum cryptography thing that can be transmitted but not copied--they appear to be transferring themselves around with ordinary cables.
When Faye first visited the robot fighting arena, Corpse Witch showed her the triple-reinforced drive that contained the robot's "core self." If getting a new body involved popping that out of one body and into another, I could buy that the AI could only be in one "place." But the three times we have seen an AI "trying out a new body", it has involved connecting a cable between the two bodies, which implies that the AI gets copied from a drive in the old body to whatever drive the new body already has. They should be capable of copy without erasure, and of making backups.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: brightwings00 on 18 Aug 2017, 04:23 ---But May did jail time. She served her sentence. She's been punished.
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As others have pointed out, May has not served her sentence yet. She is on parole, meaning that in exchange for her promise to behave she is allowed outside of prison and limited autonomy but her activities and mobility are still heavily restricted. The usual argument about punishment versus rehabilitation aside, she needs to demonstrate that she can play nicely with others in the outside world or parole will be revoked and she will be back to serving her sentence in prison.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 18 Aug 2017, 06:41 ---I've always thought the word privilege was a bit weird to define "the state of being that everyone should actually have" but it is the word we have, so whatever.
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There is a range of "privilege". Much of "white privilege" is exactly as you describe--"privileges" such as not being shot on sight by the police, for example. On the other hand, one guy was describing how he eventually realized that what some people were calling his "middle-class privilege" was already knowing at an early age that "having a job" meant showing up on time, recently bathed, dressed a certain way, and behaving in a certain way towards superiors and customers. Some of his cow orkers had to learn this the hard way, but he had already had it beaten into him from childhood. (And no, there was nothing inherently "middle class" about that, that's just what other people were calling it.) Then on the extreme end there are those who have had the "privilege" of always being surrounded by people who allow them to believe that they are always right, that they know what they are doing, that are good at everthing. I won't mention any names, but I'm sure we can all think of one example...
changer:
I feel like this arc does not belong. It's completely hypocritical because of the existence of Momo's similar arc.
Momo had, objectively, the BEST body out of the small AIs. It had cool features, the best mobility, best cosmetics. Then, she decides she wants a full sized body, and begs her *not rich* room mate to shell out the cash to buy one for her, to be repaid later.
Winslow had, objectively, the WORST body out of the small AIs. He was clumbsy, his limbs didn't articulate well, he can't even stand up by himself. He was helpless and easily picked on, and when he decides he wants a new body all of a sudden he's privileged?
I'm sorry, what? In what way is he any more privileged than Momo? Because he's a boy robot? Seems like it. After all, he actually had a body that was difficult to live with, whereas Momo had a perfectly functional, premium body and she decided she wanted MORE.
Momo wants a body that she doesn't need, and gets an arc where she shows off her new body, all it's features and everybody is happy for her. Winslow wants a body that he kinda DOES need because his old body was terrible and he has to be "taught a lesson" about daring to step out of the shadows and into the foreground.
Seriously, when has Winslow even had a story arc? The only time I can recall is the first time he got a full sized body and the body he got was disturbing to look at and nobody liked it so he went back to his poorly functioning body.
Honestly, Winslow is the least privileged character in the comic. He sits in the background, being forgotten about almost as often as Steve is, only appearing to occasionally support Hanners, or get bullied by pintsize and the one time he actually wants something his story arc gets to be all about how bad he should feel for being able to have one single nice thing happen to him ever.
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