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(CW/TW: Abuse) WCDT strips 3731-3735 (30th April to 4th May 2018)
de_la_Nae:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 01 May 2018, 21:20 ---
It was my understanding that trans folks still counted as queer. Has that changed?
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Generally they do. I don't think I understand the context of the question, though?
de_la_Nae:
--- Quote from: JimC on 01 May 2018, 21:26 ---I suppose, beyond a general distaste for shipping, it seems to me if our author is going to turn his AIs into sexual beings then it loses the whole thing of exploring "There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently." (Niven) and they become exactly like all the other characters who copulate but don't reproduce, so what's the point in having them?
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...you what, mate?
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: brasca on 01 May 2018, 22:00 ---If Hannelore wasn't too hoarse from screaming over latrine duty she'd be squeeing something fierce right now.
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Just wait until Claire finds out.
Even a mad scientist's daughter might be hard pressed to say "Your babies would be so cute!" to a human/synthetic partnership.
Poor Bubbles, indeed. She's afraid now that she's hurt Faye, a person she would lay down her life to protect.
EDIT TO ADD:
It goes back before Niven. Astounding editor John Campbell demanded that authors write about beings who think as well as a man, but not like a man.
de_la_Nae:
Okay so I've got a lot of *thoughts* in response to what you wrote, Jim, but how about I just keep them short for the moment and say that the AI are raman, possibly even främling given the nature of their birth, existence, and society. They're not varelse. I find where you seem to be drawing the lines, uh, confusing is the simplest word.
Is it cold in here?:
I confess I had to look up the context for that list, and all the top search results for "raman" were about infrared spectroscopy.
http://enderverse.wikia.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness
Some of the trillion-input AIs managing global infrastructure may be too foreign for mutual understanding.
So is Faye going to see this as interracial or as interspecies?
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