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WCDT Strips 3696 - 3700 (12-16 March 2018)
oeoek:
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 12 Mar 2018, 20:40 ---Good lord I just cycled back a few strips and their beers were just USB drives am I the only one that didn't notice that
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I missed that one too; this is my main reason for reading this forum! Thank you!
As for the poll: I voted Momo, with the old 'chibi' frame in mind. I am glad for her she has a more useful frame now, but she won me over as the little chibi AnthroPC. Handing Marigold the requested squirrel when asked, after an unseen but epic battle was the stuff of legends...
dsvella:
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 12 Mar 2018, 20:40 ---Good lord I just cycled back a few strips and their beers were just USB drives am I the only one that didn't notice that
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Well thank you for pointing that out. I had originally thought that to be a hip flask.
A Theroy:
In a previous comic Pintsize or May emulated drunkenness by down cycling their processors (no idea how to search for that specific comic). Maybe robot booze is junk instructions so that their processors get clogged up and the AI "simulation" slows down?
pwhodges:
Presumably the intoxication software has some sort of time limit built in; probably even a series of steps in which it has less effect as the limit is approached. Human intoxication has an effect which varies according to adaptation to the amount of its use; I wonder if the robots go that far in simulating it.
Jakk Frost:
Random thought spurred by the last two comics; I wonder if there's some radical group of robots/AI's who would view Clinton's robotic hand as a form of "cultural appropriation", or perhaps even as a form of slavery?
I'm not saying Roko would be like that, just that the circumstances made me think of that.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Mar 2018, 05:34 ---Presumably the intoxication software has some sort of time limit built in; probably even a series of steps in which it has less effect as the limit is approached. Human intoxication has an effect which varies according to adaptation to the amount of its use; I wonder if the robots go that far in simulating it.
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I'm not sure. It looks to me that the AI can actually consciously terminate the 'drunk' process although 'terminate after x clock cycles' would be a reasonable second-level fail-safe.
I'm wondering if, for synthetics, intoxication has the same basic motivation as it has in humans - Wanting to suppress inhibitions and disrupt cognition so that you don't have to think so much about your problems.
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