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What is Bubbles' sexual orientation?
Mad Cat:
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--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 20 May 2018, 15:39 ---The robo-psychology of an AI that inhabits the bulldozer may, but does not have to, possess within it a human-like gender of being masculine or feminine. Bubbles is a combat medic and android. Her function does not inherently require either human sex nor a human gender. She has, however adopted one. Good for her. But she is not human.
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While none of that is clearly wrong, I would suggest that it is taking a simplistically mechanistic view of AIs. In Jeph's world of QC, AIs are not now manufactured, they are an emergent development, and we do not know what might or might not be characteristic of such AIs other than what Jeph has shown us.
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All of which I have discussed at length. Thank you for caring enough about what I have to say to quote/reply to it, but not enough to read what I have written foundationally to support it.
Morituri:
I think the problem with that argument is that what you have written foundationally to support it does not apply to the QC universe unless it's what the author wants to do.
And therefore it doesn't apply to those within the QC universe, such as Bubbles.
Mad Cat:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 20 May 2018, 16:08 ---I think the problem with that argument is that what you have written foundationally to support it does not apply to the QC universe unless it's what the author wants to do.
And therefore it doesn't apply to those within the QC universe, such as Bubbles.
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I'm sorry. Perhaps I haven't ready QC as diligently as you have. Has Jeph shown us a toaster that expresses the desire to get pregnant and raise a family? A multi-ped tank that wants to get some women up on his jock? A city bus that is looking forward to the weekend off to go get her tires rotated with the other girl-busses? Has there been any behaviour from non-humanoid (Pintsize is humanoid) AIs actually demonstrated by the author that can only be characterized as clearly evincing one human gender (masculine) or another (feminine)?
I'll wait.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 20 May 2018, 16:15 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 20 May 2018, 16:08 ---I think the problem with that argument is that what you have written foundationally to support it does not apply to the QC universe unless it's what the author wants to do.
And therefore it doesn't apply to those within the QC universe, such as Bubbles.
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I'm sorry. Perhaps I haven't ready QC as diligently as you have. Has Jeph shown us a toaster that expresses the desire to get pregnant and raise a family? A multi-ped tank that wants to get some women up on his jock? A city bus that is looking forward to the weekend off to go get her tires rotated with the other girl-busses? Has there been any behaviour from non-humanoid (Pintsize is humanoid) AIs actually demonstrated by the author that can only be characterized as clearly evincing one human gender (masculine) or another (feminine)?
I'll wait.
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Edit: also Killbot 9000 (or whatever their name was, back in the early strips), who was very keen to convince everyone that they had a girlfriend in Canada.
Mad Cat:
He had a former humanoid embodiment from which he had a preexisting relationship with Hannelore, did he not? He also has a humanoid avatar.
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