Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3686-3690 (26th February to 2nd March 2018)
cesium133:
Toastbot makes toast fun!
Pintsize makes toast creepy!
sitnspin:
Toasters deserve love, too.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 02 Mar 2018, 08:05 ---Poor Roko. She'll be called into her supervisor's office. "We understand you've been seeing Pintsize socially. Are you aware of this AI's background? All I can say is, be careful."
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Maybe she's undercover again. If any character was going to need an expensive multi-unit police operation to take them down, it would be Pintsize.
zzyzx:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 02 Mar 2018, 08:22 ---Part of this theory is influenced by an Isaac Asimov story about a programmer who writes a program that solves humor and produces an infinite supply of funny jokes, because joking is the only way he can make it through social situations. Asimov spent almost all his time alone writing and edited a number of joke books. It isn't hard to make the connection.
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Did Asimov have a second story along those lines? I remember the one where people thought a Multivac programmer was doing that [Jokester] but it turned out to be an attempt to figure out the origin of jokes, but the ending was the exact opposite of an infinite supply of funny jokes.
ckridge:
Nah, I got it wrong. In my defense, I read it maybe 40 years ago, but the prosecution wishes to point out that this new gadget called the internet would have let me check. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Hey, here it is. http://blog.ac-versailles.fr/villaroylit/public/Jokester.pdf I can read it again. That's good anyway. It looks like I remembered the conflict right, but got the resolution wrong.
"He's different, he knows he's different and these jokes are the one way he feels he can get the rest of us ordinary schmoes to accept hlm. We laugh, we howl, we clap him on the back and even forget he's a Grand Master. It's the only hold he has on the rest of us."
"This is all interesting. I didn't know you were such a psychologist. Still, where does this lead?"
"Just this. What do you suppose happens if Meyerhof runs out of jokes?"
Meyerhoff, huh? He wasn't trying to cover up at all, was he? I wonder how he felt when the SWFA actually named him a Grand Master.
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