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WCDT Strips 3891 - 3895 (10-14 December 2018)

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Tyr:
Given the imagery, I'm guessing that Roko is networked into Bubbles' sensory suite, rather than it being an amalgam of both of their sensory inputs.

Just throwing that out into the conversation.

traroth:
I get this dialog is happening in unicorn grove, but one thing is bothering me: why does Roko have different clothes than in real world, and not Bubbles?

BenRG:
It's a windy day in Unicorn Valley, so Roko's mind has added her coat to her ensemble. The subconscious isn't bound by what you're actually wearing whilst creating your dreamscape self-image.

artag:
Well. Another comic, another assumption challenged.

Bubbles chose to become a soldier. I kind of assumed she was built for it.

So maybe the AIs are built / grown / whatever as minds, and then fitted to a suitable chassis to suit their intentions. I guess that fits with the general idea that swapping chassis is a fairly common thing. That makes them much more like a sentient being than a robot (which, I guess, they are), even though there seem to be differences in intellect between them : pint-size, melon, winthrop in one class, roko, bubbles, corpse-witch more advanced.

We don't know much about the AI's brain technology (or maybe multiple technologies). We do know they can be transferred, and it appears this is via data connection rather than a physical transplant but there might be issues of memory capacity or processing power.

DSL:
A guess as to why Roko's dressed more casually/athletically in the tea fantasy land:

Roko's just come off a job interview and is wearing a buttondown. Some people are comfortable in those things and others view them as stiff and "formal," about half a step down from a straitjacket (or so I've heard  ...) In addition, much of her life has been in uniform. 
(Contrast this with the observation made by another forumite that the humaniform AIs in the strip tend to go for the "athleisure" look -- activewear such as warmup jackets and hoodies, track pants or leggings/tights. It's ease, comfort, about as non-formal as you can get.)
Roko's outward persona is "formal." She would, or at the moment thinks she would, like to be otherwise. So she's wearing the outdoor/athleisure look in tea fantasy land, as opposed to her buttondown and khakis in QCRL. Bubbles, who's already mostly comfortable (or much moreso than before) with who she is and what she presents, is already there.

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