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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)
Bollthorn:
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--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 28 May 2018, 08:42 ---I guess this year we won't need to organize the traditional vote on "the story arc of the year" :-D :-D
May be we can have a vote about the 2nd place?
Our friends are happy. I'm happy for them.
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I prefer to wait for the outcome of the Bermuda Clinton-Brun-Elliot triangle...
(but if two characters coming together takes 3 years, how long does three characters take; half the time or double the time?!?)
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The Brunelton Triangle?
I'll get my coat...
Deadlywonky:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 28 May 2018, 23:29 ---
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).
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I like that, but a term that already exists is Polysexual that covers "attraction to to multiple, but not all, genders." Thoughts?
BenRG:
The terms I propose would be narrow and specific: Synthesexual being a human attracted to some variation of an artificial intelligence. Anthroposexual being an artificial intelligence who is attracted to a human. So they are specific cross-species terms.
Two other things that occurred to me:
* Does anyone else think that Tai is trying one of Emily's 'banana smoothies' and that's why, in panel 2, she's looking at the straw in such a puzzled way? She can't suck manually pulverised banana through a straw, obviously!
* Does anyone else that Claire's comments about telling Clinton might be some kind of indicator that Faye's relationship with Bubbles is going to link to Roko approaching Clinton and Clinton's reaction to it?
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 May 2018, 01:18 ---The terms I propose would be narrow and specific: Synthesexual being a human attracted to some variation of an artificial intelligence. Anthroposexual being an artificial intelligence who is attracted to a human. So they are specific cross-species terms.
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But because those are narrow and specific, they are also limiting. So “synthesexual” would apply to a human who is only attracted to AIs, but it wouldn’t apply to Faye, since she is mostly a straight human female, who happens to be attracted to one female AI. “Anthroposexual” (personally, I’d shorten that to “anthrosexual”, like they did with AnthroPC. For one thing, the “po” in “anthropo” means “appearing like”, so it’s extraneous in that word. Besides, “anthrosexual” is just easier to say.) would apply to an AI who is only attracted to humans. That might apply to Bubbles, in the strictest sense, if she was never attracted to AIs before. But she’s also not attracted to any other humans, so “Fayesexual” - although I honestly didn’t like that term to begin with - seems to be the most accurate for her.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 May 2018, 01:18 ---Does anyone else that Claire's comments about telling Clinton might be some kind of indicator that Faye's relationship with Bubbles is going to link to Roko approaching Clinton and Clinton's reaction to it?
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I’d kind of like to see Clinton mentally revisiting his run-in with Roko outside the bar. Asking him about the terms for human/AI attraction might actually make him entertain the idea himself. Then if Roko did approach him, he might just go for it.
Zebediah:
I have a feeling that Roko might actually approach Bubbles about it, once word gets around the AI community about Bubbles & Faye. Roko could admit to Bubbles that she’s had a hard time finding a compatible robot partner, that there are humans she’s attracted to, and what’s it like being with a human anyway?
Or Roko could just blunder her way through asking Clinton out, which would probably be funnier.
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