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WCDT Strips 3551 to 3555 (21st to 25th August 2017)
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: Cornelius on 25 Aug 2017, 01:50 ---Hang on, is he using his old chassis to look things up?
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Yes, he is. Its clear that his previous chassis is nothing more than a 'dumb' tablet computer with minimal limbs without an AI mind present. This strip is also an insight, I think, into how AIs view chassis in terms of 'personhood'. To them, it's just a bit of hardware to be used as intended (or even recycled) if there is no sentient mind present. I wonder if this extends to their attitude towards death in humans and their view of corpses?
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Anyone else suddenly concerned about an AI opening a cannery in the QCverse? Especially if they're fans of suspense thrillers from the 70s?
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This sounds like a reference to something, but I have no idea what. Could you please explain?
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Ever tried Soylent Greens?
Emperor Norton:
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--- Quote from: oeoek on 25 Aug 2017, 09:59 ---I think of AI's chassis as clothes, more than as body parts. And you can still use clothes, even when you are not wearing them, to put stuff in pockets, rest a weary head on and such. And clearly, even without sentience, the tablet is still a tablet. Nothing weird about it, I would say
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I get what you are saying, and I agree, somewhat. However, I still find him using his old chassis as a tablet a bit creepy. And would he need to do that anyway? I thought the AIs had a neural interface into the net built in?
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Perhaps for the same reason some of us meat users still prefer a separate pocket calculator to the one that comes with your OS accessories - they just find it easier to use. Or in this case Winslow may be practicing acting like a meat person.
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Maybe, but still weird. It must take so much longer! I mean, contrast writing up something on a mobile or tablet with doing it on a keyboard or just speaking it into a microphone - it must be so much easier to use. Or he's not actually looking stuff up but is checking up on the progress of the millionth wipe he had his old body undergo - as far as I know, he still wants to donate it.
Also, that's how you do it. In a personal space, in private. I mean, yes, May had less choice than Winslow since he doesn't volunteer yet, but don't you think it's really rude to show up to another's place of work for minor personal things? Yeah, Winslow didn't think about it, but Hanners should know better. But then again she is used to the Coffee-of-Doom-style bring-your-drama-to-work-management, so maybe she doesn't?
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I think that is just a conceit of a lot of slice of life fiction QC included. People just go to talk to people where they are, work, home, friends house, etc. etc. to talk to them.
Shjade:
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Aug 2017, 05:37 ---I think that Shjade was trying to make the point that it's perhaps a bit weird to think that someone is nice, but that you'd have to somehow be really nice not to enact violence against Pintsize. Shjade was wondering why you would say that when violence is (obviously) not nice at all. I can see why you see the post as drawing a correlation between two unrelated events (I think, kinda), but I don't think that was intentional, hence the puzzled reaction.
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This. I dunno where you learned to make logical leaps, SmilingCat, but you were way off. I wasn't saying he doesn't deserve to be yelled at unless he's abusive; I was pointing out that, what, five strips ago? people were practically sainting Winslow and demanding swift retribution against May for the horrible crime of being undeservingly rude to such a pristine angel, but now he's apparently also fine with getting his rocks off bullying weaker AI. And since OldGoat (the person who I asked that question) wasn't even one of the people who'd previously been so wounded on Winslow's behalf, it wasn't that serious a question to begin with.
Emperor Norton:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Aug 2017, 05:37 ---I think that Shjade was trying to make the point that it's perhaps a bit weird to think that someone is nice, but that you'd have to somehow be really nice not to enact violence against Pintsize. Shjade was wondering why you would say that when violence is (obviously) not nice at all. I can see why you see the post as drawing a correlation between two unrelated events (I think, kinda), but I don't think that was intentional, hence the puzzled reaction.
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This. I dunno where you learned to make logical leaps, SmilingCat, but you were way off. I wasn't saying he doesn't deserve to be yelled at unless he's abusive; I was pointing out that, what, five strips ago? people were practically sainting Winslow and demanding swift retribution against May for the horrible crime of being undeservingly rude to such a pristine angel, but now he's apparently also fine with getting his rocks off bullying weaker AI. And since OldGoat (the person who I asked that question) wasn't even one of the people who'd previously been so wounded on Winslow's behalf, it wasn't that serious a question to begin with.
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Oh yes, because that is an accurate summation of "Hey they both made mistakes, maybe both of them should have to face that."
Do you think maybe the reason the horse got beaten far beyond death is that people vastly misrepresented what people were saying in order to make them look ridiculous, which caused people to restate their point over and over hoping that people would actually argue against the point they were making rather than making up a straw man to bludgeon? Nah, that couldn't be it.
Shjade:
If it doesn't resemble their argument, why would they assume I was talking about them? :?
At this point I'm pretty sure some folks just enjoy beating the horse.
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