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WCDT Strips 3631 to 3635 (11th to 15th December 2017
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It didn't occur to me before this arc started, but from this comic it looks to me like Tilly is the kind of person Winslow is on track to be - or at least would've been on track to be if not for the inevitable fallout of Tilly's intrusion into Hannelore's life. Not just helpful to a fault, but helpful without really reflecting on whether the person being helped wants it. And right now Tilly's enabling that aspect because their greater experience in assistance and willingness to be a partner in assistance is encouraging Winslow to "help" in ways he wouldn't have otherwise.
It's not the same, but it kind of reminds me of what happened with May. Winslow seems to be having trouble realizing that his actions are insensitive to others without outside assistance (which has to be explicit, based on the fact that both Tilly and Winslow have failed to take in Hannelore's reactions in panels 3 and 4). The question now is will Hannelore be the one to spell it out for them, or is someone else going to have to be the one to step in?
OldGoat:
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--- Quote from: OldGoat on 11 Dec 2017, 20:42 ---But Mr. Bartholomew Punchbot, CPA and Trooper Roko Basilisk, MSP, do not.
But clearly, AIs do not emerge from the creche with equal levels of intellect, ability, or aptitude.
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May was clearly in a position to handle massive amounts of money before she decided she wanted to be a fighter jet. I'm imagining a system where AIs built for a specific purpose are assumed to be qualified for that job, but if they want to leave that industry, they start at the bottom and have to earn their way up.
Which also makes me wonder about robot college. Can college courses be written directly to the robo-brain? do they have to physically attend classes like humans? Did Roko have to finish all the physical qualifications in the police academy?
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Exactly. May has the intellect, but her personality is impulsive and her judgement sucks. I expect that if Jeph ever takes the strip there, the fact that personalities vary out of the creche even though AI minds are formed from the same base code will be revealed to have been a major factor in the court decisions and/or legislation that made AIs people in the QCverse.
In my "head canon," the text-&-lecture part of an education can be downloaded into an AI but the experiential part has to be lived. Roko didn't have to attend classes at the Massachusetts State Police Academy in New Braintree (although she may have opted to for more human interaction), but she still had to pass mock scenes and spend a few months with a field training officer before she could be commissioned.
They could download a masters degree into Bart Punchbot, but he'd have to work with live humans to get a handle on people and financial planning.
We haven't seen any AI physicians, but with this model they'd still need to do an internship before being licensed, and a residency before being qualified.
I expect colleges will charge by the credit whether you attend classes or not. Galloping through distance learning classes today doesn't save you a dime.
Case:
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--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 10 Dec 2017, 21:58 --- After all, his general lethargy has cost Marten his relationship with Dora (well, that, and her own issues) and maybe this was kind of a wake-up-call for him not to screw up with Claire…
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It still surprises me when people seem to place a lot (or even most) of the blame on Marten for that breakup.
While he could’ve done things better in that relationship, for sure, his passiveness had very little, if anything , to do with it failing, IMO.
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Weeeell.... that's the thing about being lethargic or passive, it NEVER is something you did, because you never do anything. It's true Dora had a large part of it, but considering she could make things work with Tai pretty briefly afterwards implies that she isn't just some monster who can never be happy. Like Hanners, Marten needed to learn to set boundaries. He didn't really do that and simply got mad when Dora overstepped them. Again, Dora was the main reason it all came crashing down, but Marten did pretty much nothing proactively to try to help it either, and I believe that's the point.
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A lack of set boundaries weren't the issue, though. It was Dora's irrational jealousy and insecurities. Which she worked on and thus, why she's making it work with Tai.
I mean, hell, Martin could have been the most proactive boyfriend ever. Short of him breaking off his friendship with Faye and every other female from then until perpetuity AND blinding himself so, he couldn't even look at another woman in passing, yea...there was ZIP he could have done to have salvaged that one. As I said, you can't set boundaries there because boundaries are logic and logic and irrational fears don't mix.
Look, I love Dora and it pissed me off when people tried to put ANY part of Faye's self-destruction on her. But, just like Faye had to own her bullsh*t, Dora has to own hers.
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I don't quite know if I agree on that one: I still feel like greater clarity and less waffling would have served Marten well. Still as said, Dora does bear the greatest responsibility.
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Oh, the Marten-Dora breakup debate! Shiny! Haven't seen that one around in a while *twitch* - Just let me get the needles fondue forks ...
traroth:
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Case:
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