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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 May 2018, 23:09 ---Well taken point but I'd draw a distinction between being mean to someone and objectifying them.
For example, Faye ridiculed Marigold but never tried to look up her skirt.
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Touché.
Case:
--- Quote from: Wombt on 03 May 2018, 19:47 --- I find it interesting when people are like, "All shipping turns into x" or even "most shippers are like y," because those interpretations are very often different from my own.
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It's horrible how people try to put down harmless activities of others by claiming, without evidence, that any instance of such activity, without fail, ends in [dire consequence x]. Even worse, when they make sweeping character-judgements of entire groups of people based on nothing more than their 'discomfort' at being confronted with a harmless, fun activity.
Maybe it will help calm your rattled nerves when I tell you that searches on this forum for the phrases "All shipping turns into" and "most shippers are like" turn up one (relevant) result each. Your own post.
Surely that is merely a result of your paraphrasing the despicable effluent of the undoubtedly numerous instances of incitement in a manner ill-suited to be found by search-engines. Luckily, there's an easy remedy: You can simply quote some examples to us. Two, maybe three examples for each transgression should suffice to convince any sceptic of the stunning scale of the problem and unmask the poster's vitriol.
We shouldn't suffer the reckless slander of our fellow forumites, should we?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 May 2018, 23:16 ---(Hey, is that a difference between organics and AIs? I can't remember a synthetic ever coming up with plausible-sounding reasons for a decision that was really something else. Pintsize doesn't even explain his decisions. Even Roko is covering up her bread fetish, not fooling herself about it).
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I think that, for AIs, the only element of their mind that is 'subconscious' is in their sensory responses and chassis management. Roko defined her 'ticklish' response to her foot being examined as 'psychosomatic', remember? Her subconscious was actually responding to a sensory input that might not even have physical reality or at least be nowhere near as intense.
All their decision-making and thought processes seems to be 'out in front' even if, as in Bubbles case, they are able to perceive that they are irrational and feel frustration that they are unable to break their ingrained behaviour patterns.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: BenRG ---over time, she almost forgot she was a synthetic.
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That's real progress but it's still in the problem range. Imagine a human telling another human "When I look at you I don't see black". Aside from the zinger "Oh really? Have you turned in your driver's license?", it carries a whiff of implication that treating the person as an equal requires not noticing their ethnicity.
As you point out, AIs were not legally recognized as our equals until recently. Faye could still be dealing with prejudice mutating through all the forms it takes as humans grow out of racism toward other organics.
"I almost forgot you're a synthetic."
"I would have thought it too obvious to overlook."
Tova:
--- Quote from: pecoros7 on 03 May 2018, 23:12 ---I think I understand how you feel, but my feelings towards Faye have been more... ambiguous? (Sure. I'll go with ambiguous for want of a better word).
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Ambivalent?
I think I understand what you mean.
I sympathise with her even while I recognise that punching people is bad, mmmkay?
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