Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 3896-3900 (17-21 December 2018)
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: pendrake on 18 Dec 2018, 09:17 ---For comic #3897...
1. Did PunchBot (CPA) ever get his arm (& side) replaced? Otherwise I would say that arm is probably his, and hopefully this will not come back to bite the entrepreneur couple.
2. Robots in-recent...
- a. Stabitha (Swordsmary)
- b. Beepatrice
- c. Cattle Destroyer
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Well, they could've had more customers out-of-comic, but even so I hardly believe them both not being able to keep track of the customers they have and what parts they have/will have for them.
I kinda assumed this arm was simply part of the leftover inventory from the robot fighting ring, but that they never were able to identify who this arm once belonged too (which could have dark implications about what happened to the arm's owner....but who knows what Corpsewitch was capable off anyway).
Roborat:
Good lord, how fast was she going when she "bumped into" that poor cow.
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Roborat on 18 Dec 2018, 12:03 ---Good lord, how fast was she going when she "bumped into" that poor cow.
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Speed may not have been the issue if she was driving one of these brush cutters but with an open cab
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Inconsequential:
Yes, perhaps the cow had suffered some other sort of trauma as a result of the "bump". Maybe startled the cow, who ran out into the road and got hit by a truck.
I also know that an expired cow sort of... inflates after a while. And a bump can lead to bystanders who look like this. But there are no stink lines and Faye isn't passing out from the stench (although even fresh cow guts smell pretty obnoxious), so that's probably not it.
And yeah, we're really, really overthinking this.
I mean, that's what we do here. We overthink.
I've sort of wondered how Roko can work as a cop when she faints at the sight of mechanical mayhem. A cop that passes out or starts puking at the sight of blood wouldn't last too long, so in a world with lots of AIs walking around and presumably getting into accidents and shenanigans, an AI cop who bluescreens at mangled synthetic body parts wouldn't be very useful.
Personally, I'm a giant fan of these world-building AI comics, spiced up with the occasional turbo-horndog Faye. Bubbles has created a monster... :evil:
rtmq0227:
As much as I love the paperclip joke, it does make me wonder about the context it would hold for AI
From an IT perspective, it would be something akin to smelling salts or a blow upside the head, you snap out of whatever infinite loop you're in but it's jarring, and you maybe don't remember a lot about what you were stuck on in the first place.
Would that kind of joke be offensive to the sort of highly-integrated AI that Roko represents? Would it be seen as more therapeutic/refreshing than I'm thinking? Is it highly taboo or viewed with a utilitarian lens?
This, of course, assumes that there is an actual "reset button" or equivalent for AI. It is about as likely that this is Faye being flippant and making a "Robots are still computers, just bigger and prone to emotions" joke.
I suspect, as with most things, it depends on your audience. Bubbles certainly didn't seem too fazed.
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