Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 28 May 2018, 21:24 ---I often think about the fact that Bubbles is strong enough to destroy a helicopter, yet with Faye she’s so tender and soft and gentle.
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And Faye finally has someone who can completely shrug off the physical abuse she can dish out.
Magniras:
Robot is a loan word from Czech anyway, it doesn't really work with Latin.
I don't know what word you'd use for attraction to an AI. Androidphilia? Gynoidphilia?
War Sparrow:
Greek, not latin.
"robot amator" (my latin is incredibly rusty, this might be wrong) sounds like a great band name though.
brasca:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 28 May 2018, 20:37 ---
--- Quote from: ToodleLew on 28 May 2018, 19:42 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 28 May 2018, 18:49 ---Comic’s up.
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Well said, Tai.
And, judging from Bubbles reaction to Evie's dispassionate and insensitive "analysis" (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3656) I'd guess they shouldn't get Clinton interested in the question.
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When we first met Clinton? No way. But now, he's matured a lot, and seems to be a lot more respectful of AIs as people than we ever saw from Evie. She thinks clinically - even people seem to be little more than social experiments to her. Clinton thinks emotionally. I'd be fairly confident that he would consider the matter respectfully - a lot more confident than I would be about Evie. Especially since he already had a taste of what Bubbles might do to him if he didn't.
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Clinton has matured since the first time he was introduced, but I'd estimate he's on about the same level as Evie now when it comes to social skills. Personally, I found that whole plot to be the most annoying thing about interpersonal communications these days. It's like walking on egg shells.
Unless Clinton was really desperate for a grant I doubt he'd even bother since it would mean interacting on a daily basis with two people who don't like him that much and are potentially dangerous.
BenRG:
Over on Patreon, someone pointed out that 'robot' is a Czech word for 'slave'. Although that definition is so obscure as to be effectively lost, it's possible that some AIs to whom words seriously matter may take offence. In any case, 'robot' as a prefix would seem to necessarily limit the definition to those in mobile chassis of one sort or another. What about those humans who are attracted to non-embodied AIs like Station? I'd bet a lot that this has happened at least a few times!
I think that 'Synthesexual' may be a good term for it, with 'Anthroposexual' being the inverse for AIs attracted to humans (and I would argue that Momo also falls into that group).
Of course, I think that Marten might be assuming a general alignment in Faye's part here that does not exist. All previous evidence indicates she's straight (given the way she rejects approaches from Tai and Dora suggests that she isn't even slightly curious). It's just that she's found this one Synthetic woman that attracts her and with whom she can fall in love.
I also think that any job that required Clinton and Claire to work together would require someone with a personality like Marten's to act as umpire to stop them from lapsing into argument every few minutes.
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