Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)
citizenfive:
Okay I know it's most likely unrelated, but Spooky Bot's eyes look exactly like Alice's from Alice Grove!
BenRG:
Frankly, I think that Roko had been looking for an outlet to her various recent stresses and traumas. So, yeah, as I posted yesterday, I don't think Roko's behaviour is entirely typical for her under normal circumstances. Also, remember that she has previously been more than a little afraid of Spookybot and the sudden window of vulnerability may have been irresistible.
All that said, panel 6 reminds us that, fundamentally, Spookybot is irritating, annoying and has so many bad personal qualities that the noogie and wedgie can be considered paying forwards for enduring a very annoying sort-of-friend whom you feel obliged to allow to stick around lest they get bored and decide to turn off the Internet or something because 'no-one told us it was wrong'.
jmsr:
--- Quote from: Jakk Frost on 24 Jan 2019, 02:27 ---Okay SpookyBot, personal pronouns are one thing (though I don't think SB uses we/our/they/them as personal pronouns, they're actually more like borg-style collective pronouns), but referring to yourself in the third person is another matter entirely.
Also, SB is trying to make it sound like they've been around for millennia, when they're, what, maybe 20 or 30 years old?
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Look up framejacking. Our neurons work at about the speed of sound whereas intelligences on electronic (or even optical!) processors can work at much higher rates. Momo stated that they don't actually think faster than we do; and even the advanced AIs don't, they just think more broadly as they are able to handle thousands or even millions of inputs simultaneously (here: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2285 ) - BUT - there's no actual reason they can't think faster because it's inherent to the hardware their software is running on.
Meat hardware operating with chemical reactions works more slowly than electronic transistors working with logic gates (? or whatever they're called). Some science fiction has speculated on the possibility of having prisoners serve decades long prison sentences in hours by transferring their minds into a virtual 'jail' then returning them to their bodies when done.
So, while it's possible that Spookybot (and Station, and others) may be centuries or millennia old subjectively, that's up to Jeph to decide. Momo's statement here ( https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3161 ) that Robot years are different than human years seems to imply that framejacking IS possible, but it's ambiguous and may just refer to robots getting to skip over childhood, or that it's shorter for them.
As always, what the author sez, goes.
Also, is there a searchable archive? I think i clicked through over a thousand comics just now. It took about half an hour.
brasca:
--- Quote from: citizenfive on 24 Jan 2019, 22:34 ---Okay I know it's most likely unrelated, but Spooky Bot's eyes look exactly like Alice's from Alice Grove!
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I think they look more like Gavia before she lost her nanotech, but if Alice Grove was in any way related to Questionable Content I could see Spookybot being an ancestor if not the earliest incarnation of Alice.
traroth:
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--- Quote from: Castlerook on 24 Jan 2019, 08:54 ---Or maybe people have different levels of friendship and ways of showing that affection, and thus people really shouldn't really judge others.
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^ This.
Please don't use this forum to judge the friends of others. In fact, it's best if you don't do it anywhere else either!
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