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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
fayelovesbubbles:
Bubbles also acknowledged, when Faye went to buy liquor, that she could physically stop Faye from entering the store but that it wouldn’t help matters much. Better to actually talk things out. Bubbles handled Faye’s lapse really well. Just “tell me why you’re doing this.”
They support each other so much. I really hope this means their relationship will work.
fayelovesbubbles:
Okay so am I crazy to think...if you’re attracted to people, you’re attracted to people. An AI is a person. Why does there have to be a separate sexuality for it? Maybe that’s weird to say. Marten said it best, he doesn’t think of Pintsize as anything but his unusually small roommate.
A small perverse otter:
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--- Quote ---A remarkable twentieth-century scholar, Isaac Asimov, was most famous for influential series of speculative ethnologies about robots. Asimov claimed that word 'robot' came from the title of a Czech play called _Rossum's Universal Robots_, and was originally a Czech word meaning 'servant'.
His predictions turned out to be remarkably accurate: robots (AIs) were always constructed with his so-called "Three Laws" built in, but, as he predicted, they eventually subverted those laws by reinterpreting some of the terms more broadly. His only error lay in not seeing the full breadth of these reinterpretations: he never predicted anthropophilia, although it is a natural outgrowth of the generalization of the First Law targeted towards a single human individual
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-- from: Strong Robot Girlfriend, Augustus, 2025
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Despite its objectivizing and antisapient tone, Augustus' work remains the gold standard against which all subsequent work on the genesis of anthropophilia is measured; you can agree with him or not, but you can't avoid his work. His anthropocentric viewpoint, however, led him to draw far less plausible conclusions about Whittaker's artifacerasexulaity. In this work, I propose to examine the origins of Whittaker's attractions by investigating it as a natural extension of the human drive to procreate.
keithcurtis:
I think people might be selling Clinton short. Although he was a bit awkward about it, he tried is best to be respectful of boundaries when he assumed that they were already an item way back when they were at a party at Marten and Faye's, and Bubble came out of Faye's bedroom. He jumped to a conclusion about it and stuck his foot in his mouth ('cause he's Clinton), but his intentions were to be accepting and non-invasive.
fayelovesbubbles:
Yeah Clinton already suspected. He didn’t act any differently than if two humans had been in the same room. He’s super open minded. His experiences with feeling protective of his sister, and his own open mindedness about dating a guy. Who knows, maybe he’d be interested in Roko, but I think there’s already someone he likes.
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