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WCDT strips 3681 to 3685 (19-23 February 2018)
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Feb 2018, 23:20 ---I'm pretty sure that everyone (and I mean everyone) would have taken a 'how to relationship' class if it existed and was actually worth a damn. As one or both of those criteria are never met, I'm thinking that this is simply something that you can't teach.
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I think you can teach parts of it.
--- Quote ---Now, I want to talk about May's recreational reading: It's interesting to see Jeph recall that May really doesn't want to be humanoid at all. She wants to be a fighter jet and she still keeps up with what I presume is a high-performance aviation lifestyle magazine. Obviously, AIs attempting to embezzle to get a fighter drone chassis is a significant problem, given the PSA on the back page: "Don't do crime to be a plane!" It's clearly a lesson that May had to learn the hard way!
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The magazine being called "Fighter Jet Monthly" says to me that its target audience is AIs who are fighter jets.
What does an AI need with a magazine? :D
I mean, can't AIs just slurp the stuff into their brains via the 'net?
It's like Star Trek Voyager's "Doctor" operating one of the computer consoles and using PADDs. He is the ship's computer, isn't he?
n.b.: Why would a magazine aimed at fighter jet AIs have that PSA on the back? Well, apparently, in the QCverse as in ours, magazine publishers know that for most special-interest magazines, their readership is largely about wish fulfillment.
(The leading general aviation magazine in the US, Flying, has about ten times as many subscribers as there are private pilots in the US. Most readers of Playboy are middle-aged and/or relentlessly single. The vast majority of readers of the likes of Stereophile own equipment far cheaper than what that magazine commonly reviews. etc., etc. If you aim your magazine only at those who are already doing what your articles are about you severely limit your audience.)
--- Quote ---Who'd like to see May become a 'plane, maybe something like a Quinjet from the MCU, and still try to keep up with her friends?
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Maybe eventually, sure, why not?
If she had money she could probably have the experience temporarily. Just as there are "air combat joyride" companies today (see e.g. Air Combat USA), I'd think the QCverse would have places that would let an AI temporarily "move into" a fighter jet - one without live ammunition, of course, and with strict override controls in place.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 20 Feb 2018, 04:58 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Feb 2018, 23:20 ---Now, I want to talk about May's recreational reading: It's interesting to see Jeph recall that May really doesn't want to be humanoid at all. She wants to be a fighter jet and she still keeps up with what I presume is a high-performance aviation lifestyle magazine. Obviously, AIs attempting to embezzle to get a fighter drone chassis is a significant problem, given the PSA on the back page: "Don't do crime to be a plane!" It's clearly a lesson that May had to learn the hard way!
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The magazine being called "Fighter Jet Monthly" says to me that its target audience is AIs who are fighter jets.
What does an AI need with a magazine? :D
I mean, can't AIs just slurp the stuff into their brains via the 'net?
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They can but several synthetics in the strip have said that there is a qualitative difference in reading compared to downloading information directly into their memory. Something to do with actually processing data as it is relayed to the short-term memory buffer via the senses.
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 20 Feb 2018, 04:58 ---It's like Star Trek Voyager's "Doctor" operating one of the computer consoles and using PADDs. He is the ship's computer, isn't he?
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Actually he's a simulation being run by a sub-service of the main computer. I suspect that, like QC synthetics, the Doctor was programmed to simulate human-like behaviours to reassure them. With time, his intelligence algorithm became advanced enough to have preferences and came to enjoy the sensations of manual input.
--- Quote from: Sullivan on 20 Feb 2018, 04:58 ---n.b.: Why would a magazine aimed at fighter jet AIs have that PSA on the back? Well, apparently, in the QCverse as in ours, magazine publishers know that for most special-interest magazines, their readership is largely about wish fulfilment.
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Precisely and that is the reason for the PSA: Synthetics who want to be 'planes may succumb to temptation so such a magazine is just the right place to remind wannabes that there are methods that are best not used to fulfil one's dreams.
Case:
--- Quote from: zodo on 19 Feb 2018, 21:46 ---So is Fighter Jet Weekly porn for May?
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Yes
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Stoon:
Oh man, I'd so have taken dating classes when I was younger. It's too late now. I'm so old now that women call me "sir" when they interact with me.
There's a FAQ somewhere?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 20 Feb 2018, 06:31 ---Again, why the difference between a male friend and a female friend? I get not having enough time to spend with both friends and your SO, that is perfectly understandable, what I don't get it why it matters what the gender of the friend you do spend with is.
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If the gender of the other friend is the same of those to which you are normally sexually attracted, a sufficiently insecure personality may conclude that you are spending more time with them because you would prefer them as your SO than your current SO. Basically, they are a potential sexual rival, a serious instinctive red-flag in people of a monogamous type.
Typically if the other friend is of any other gender then the sense of a potential threat to the relationship is at least of a different nature, if not eliminated altogether.
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