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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)

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Is it cold in here?:
Someone with better archive skills than I have may know the strip in which a synthetic is reading a book and someone asks why, given the option of downloading the information. I don't remember the answer but don't think it was "we can't just download knowledge".

* Is it cold in here? acknowledges OldGoat's distinction between knowledge and skills.

OldGoat:

--- Quote from: Case on 28 Sep 2018, 18:08 ---Which is what I was speaking of: The reading-and-thinking-about-and-understanding part. I don't think that one works much different for (QC-Verse) AIs than it works for us.

Are we talking past each other?  :psyduck:

--- End quote ---
Probably.

Eyeballs as input device or straight to the drive - text is text is text.  I think the AI with the book was Momo, and it sounds like something she'd say.  As I recall she was saying she was doing it because she liked it, too.  However, New Tricks is on the local PBS station so I'm not going looking for it just now.  Cheers!

Cornelius:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Sep 2018, 20:36 ---Someone with better archive skills than I have may know the strip in which a synthetic is reading a book and someone asks why, given the option of downloading the information. I don't remember the answer but don't think it was "we can't just download knowledge".

* Is it cold in here? acknowledges OldGoat's distinction between knowledge and skills.
--- End quote ---

As far as I remember, that was Momo, who explained that she could download the book, but preferred the tactile experience. And that it made her seem more human.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 25 Sep 2018, 08:55 ---
I think I maybe should have remained blissful in my ignorance...   :oops:

--- End quote ---

But can there truly be bliss in ignorance?

Case:

--- Quote from: OldGoat on 28 Sep 2018, 21:12 ---Eyeballs as input device or straight to the drive - text is text is text.

--- End quote ---

I hope I'm not imposing on you: Did you never encounter a 'text' (I'd include e.g. math-textbooks into that definition - math is a language, too, in a sense) that you had to read several times to understand it?

I'm asking because that experience, and dealing with it, was such a fundamental one when I was a fledgling physics student (I almost quit studying before finding out that everybody I asked, including the profs, assured me that it was completely normal for them), that later on, as a teaching assistance, I made a habit of telling ever class of 1st semester students :

"Get used to having to read stuff twice, thrice or five times before you understand it. Having to sleep on it. Having to go to your TA and discuss about it. You're all here because you have an aptitude and a passion for mathematics and physics (If you're here for the money, you're in the wrong building - you want the law school). It's not unlikely that you've never made this experience before in school, that until now, reading was understanding.

Those days are over, my young Padawans"


P.S.: German physics curricula were (partially still are) notoriously over-formal - the famous 'mathematische Strenge' that Einstein so hated, and (rightfully) criticized as detrimental to learning the skill of problem-solving in physics, is still very popular over here. For a 1st semester, this can be ... daunting.

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