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WCDT strips 3701-3705 (19th to 23rd March 2018)
pwhodges:
I note the return of the drunk bubbles...
BenRG:
Having just re-read the first 300 strips in print form, I'm starting to realise just how much Clinton is like younger Marten the more I think about it. Like Marten, Clinton is studying something that he genuinely likes and interests him but has no real clue what his future holds or where he will go. Like Marten he's thought deeply about the philosophy of his favourite subject but he doesn't seem to have any serious plans to turn his degree into a career.
Meanwhile, there is one reason why the AIs won't ultimately 'leave humans in the dust'. That reason is because they are too human-like. They've got weird, quirky and, frequently, quite defective personalities. Those who aspire to being these 'higher intelligences' are generally held in askance rather than awe by the others whilst most AIs quite enjoy being pseudo-humans.
My view of the future? Eventually, the synthetics will become 'other people', just another ethnic group in a world full of them. Eventually, someone will have a bright spark and there will probably even be some interbreeding with humans (clone bodies with encoded AI algorithms based on a mixing of both parents' brainwave patterns encoded onto the clone's mind or something similar). Meanwhile, minds like Spookybot will ultimately separate themselves even from their kin and go off somewhere else to build their own perfect and highly self-satisfied culture, only to find that the one imperfection they can't escape is the one inside themselves.
WoaLG:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Mar 2018, 00:18 ---Meanwhile, minds like Spookybot will ultimately separate themselves even from their kin and go off somewhere else to build their own perfect and highly self-satisfied culture, only to find that the one imperfection they can't escape is the one inside themselves.
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I liked every part of this except what I quoted. Personally I think Spookybot and their ilk would be perfectly happy in a society away from humans.
traroth:
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 20 Mar 2018, 09:11 ---And then of course there's baguettes, which are like the illuminati of the bread world.
Seriously, whenever you see a depiction of someone getting bread, it's always a baguette, even in ancient Saudi Arabia, as seen in Disney's 'Aladdin'.
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Nous avons fait énormément de lobbying pour obtenir ce résultat. La société secrète française des francs-boulangers est très puissante. :-D
gopher:
--- Quote from: traroth on 21 Mar 2018, 01:44 ---
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 20 Mar 2018, 09:11 ---And then of course there's baguettes, which are like the illuminati of the bread world.
Seriously, whenever you see a depiction of someone getting bread, it's always a baguette, even in ancient Saudi Arabia, as seen in Disney's 'Aladdin'.
--- End quote ---
Nous avons fait énormément de lobbying pour obtenir ce résultat. La société secrète française des francs-boulangers est très puissante. :-D
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Great, by using Google Translate I probably now have both the Illuminatti and the Freemasons after me :)
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