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WCDT Strips 3971-3975 (April 1st-5th)
BenRG:
Remember, Dora, magic always has its price! In this case, the price would be a trip to the ER for Marten and a serious clean-up bill for the counter area!
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I thought blood & magic was usually considered BAD...
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I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
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Very, very evil and psychopathic non-human and immaterial intelligences whose idea of 'fun' is to either make a meat puppet of you and torment you on a psychic level until you go insane.
OldGoat:
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--- Quote from: OldGoat on 02 Apr 2019, 22:24 ---Aside from the very abbreviate form of due process applied, I find it difficult to generate much sympathy for the recipients of the treatment in those few accounts I've read or heard stories of.
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Disagree in the strongest possible terms, but then we're into the criminal justice/prison policies thread.
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You disagree with my subjective response to a story? Interesting.
Mordhaus:
--- Quote from: Tova on 03 Apr 2019, 21:09 ---
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 03 Apr 2019, 20:06 ---New comic.
I thought blood & magic was usually considered BAD....
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I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
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Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Milayna:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 Apr 2019, 01:36 ---
--- Quote from: traroth on 03 Apr 2019, 01:01 ---On a more serious note, do AIs need to take classes (and pass exams), or can they just download the needed knowledge?
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AIs' minds work very much like those of humans. Whilst they can download data, they can only read it back as if it were an electronic book. They do not have the ability to automatically use that data in a practical way until they have applied it a few times in the actual real world. In essence, they can download the manuals but, because of the way they work, they're not really skills, just raw information that may not actually mean anything to them.
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Here is the thing though... I can't remember ever seeing an AI at the school as a student. When you consider how much the town and the comic revolve around the school it is a bit odd that the only AI we have seen associated with it is Momo working in the library. On the other side though there are a lot of AI working in the city in other jobs. Sure they could get work at the bot cafe or chassis sales store without any kind of official training. Some can come from on the job or picked up skills, like Roko's police officer career, or Bubble's mechanical skill. But there are those who need schooling and accreditation like Punchbot being a CPA.
So all things being the same, we should have seen at least the occasional AI student over the years. The fact that we haven't says that either it's been a mild oversight on Jeph's part, or AI do not actually learn like human, or at least don't have to. There might be shortened courses for AI that can just download all the materials needed and then if it requires do the lab work and test to prove their proficiency before hitting the work force.
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Or that AI's role in the world has expanded in that time. I'm not sure if that's canon or not but I've always assumed it is. AI lifeforms have only arisen in the past few decades, after all. How old is Hanners' dad again? In the start of the comic their presence was nominal at best, existing as cute companions. Obviously there was more - such as Station and Bubbles - and the increasing AI presence in the comic (in number of appearances humanoid/varied forms, and economic roles) obviously reflects Jeph's decision to focus more on that story. But in-comic, I've been taking it as a given that AI presence in general has expanded within the past few canon-years.
Cornelius:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 03 Apr 2019, 21:09 ---
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 03 Apr 2019, 20:06 ---New comic.
I thought blood & magic was usually considered BAD....
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I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad?"
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Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
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Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip.
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