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WCDT Strips 3571 to 3575 (18th to 22nd 2017)

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Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Detective Basilisk ---since I was born

--- End quote ---

What does it mean that a synthetic describes their incarnation that way? Is it just a convenient way to communicate with meat-based people? Do they try to relate their experiences to ours?

Perfectly Reasonable:
Faye's "foot meat" song;

I was expecting someone here to have filked it long before this....
(sigh)
I am disappoint.

Sullivan:
Hanners will soon want to have her consciousness transferred to an AI. You know she's thought about it.

BenRG:
Oh! Well, I wasn't expecting to be right but here we are: It seems that, since coming for tea, Roko and Hannelore have at least become acquaintances, if not friends.

What Roko is doing is actually quite common behaviour for people with anxiety conditions of various forms (at least in my experience of them): They can't help but talk about the source of their anxieties and, if it's something you're more than a little anxious about yourself, it can become a very awkward and uncomfortable interaction.


--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Sep 2017, 21:56 ---
--- Quote from: Detective Basilisk ---since I was born
--- End quote ---

What does it mean that a synthetic describes their incarnation that way? Is it just a convenient way to communicate with meat-based people? Do they try to relate their experiences to ours?
--- End quote ---

I think that they typically try to find human-analogue phraseology for their experiences. I suspect that, in this context, Roko is saying that her chassis is the first one into which she was downloaded after being compiled in E-CC's natal servers. So 'born' means being embodied in some way for the first time (even if that 'body' is another mainframe, like the one in which Station lives).

[EDIT]
I just noticed that, with her hair down, Roko looks like the Disney TV character Kim Possible. I wonder if Jeph is telling us that Roko had a 'childhood' fictional crime-fighter hero and this guided her aspirations in operational life?

JimC:
And Officer Rosko continues: " and all those secretions and eliminations. Not just the big stuff, but the way the human body emits tiny amounts of smelly fluid from just about every surface. I can't imagine what it would be like to have underarms that sweat, and as for those other bits... "

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