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WCDT Strips 3566 to 3570 (11th to 15th September 2017)

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SubaruStephen:
Feedback sensors, thermocouples, electrical load sensors, stress gauges, all those would combine to form some sort of physical awareness.

OldGoat:
Faye and Roko are pitching each other shit - that means a friendship is brewing. 

Geez, does an AI get to claim something like physician/patient privilege communications with their chassis tech?  Faye is fulfilling the role of Roko's podiatrist!

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: OldGoat on 11 Sep 2017, 16:08 ---
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 11 Sep 2017, 15:53 ---Does anyone else find it interesting that Bubbles made a generalization about the May-type chassis - that "it attracts similarly strange inhabitants"? How many other inhabitants of May-type chassis has Bubbles dealt with?

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Melon and May look quite a bit alike, and she probably encountered all kinds, meat and metal, in the military.

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Three words, 'underground robot fights'.

Also, it looks like there's a few different phalange analogues under the synth skin. I guess Roko's chassis has something akin to toes, just not separated externally.
I'd be curious to see a schematic of the internals.

SmilingCat:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 11 Sep 2017, 08:39 ---Organics wear clothes to feel better and to decorate themselves to impress others. Synthetics seem to share most or all of our emotional makeup.

It may also be a way of asserting dignity. Clothes assert "You need my permission to look at my body".

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And to look nice. I never even knew I had a thing for robotic purple women in activewear until today...

BenRG:
I'm trying to work out 'psychosomatic' in the context of a robot chassis and its interaction with a software AI. What she's saying is that she hasn't got sensitive feet, rather that her algorithm has unconsciously developed an autonomous reaction to her chassis reporting a certain type of contact with the derma there. There is no cause for her to want this. I think it is quite possible that she has just known lots of humans with that quirk and her subconscious processes have decided that this is something that 'people do' and that, therefore, she needs to do.

Jeph is establishing a huge loophole in AI psychology and physiology with this strip. How so? Remember Bubbles telling Faye that she wasn't ticklish because she hadn't downloaded the right software? I can't see Roko having downloaded software to give her sensitive feet so this establishes that the software isn't necessary if the AI wants to have that reaction on a certain subconscious level. Jeph is now setting the precedent that any one of the synthetic characters can have anthropomimetic reactions to touch and other stimuli, irrespective of physical construction because their processes feel that they need it. The narrative and characterisation uses are obvious and do not need to be reiterated.

Meanwhile... am I the only one who noticed that Roko used the same counter-argument that Sam once used when accused of blushing and being shy? I'm thinking that, like many AIs, Roko is younger than her outer presentation would normally suggest and, like a lot of 'teenagers', is still learning the subtleties of social interaction. Doing your job with its myriad rules is easy; the looser and more amorphous world of casual social interaction is much harder to learn.

Finally, I'm really enjoying 'Faye Whitaker - Robot Medic'. She has a gentleness and sympathy with her 'patients' sometimes that makes me wonder if, in a different universe, she might have ended up in some healthcare profession (although, arguably, that's what's happened anyway).

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