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WCDT Strips 3986-3990 (22nd - 26th April, 2019)
hakko504:
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Have we ever heard of a married synthetic at all, ever? Is it something they even do?
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IIRC we've only seen two other AI couples: Jeremy/7 and Melon/Arthur and whether they are married or not hasn't been stated AFAIK. And IIRC we haven't seen any other AI/human relations at all.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 25 Apr 2019, 02:19 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 24 Apr 2019, 22:16 ---
Have we ever heard of a married synthetic at all, ever? Is it something they even do?
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IIRC we've only seen two other AI couples: Jeremy/7 and Melon/Arthur and whether they are married or not hasn't been stated AFAIK. And IIRC we haven't seen any other AI/human relations at all.
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FWIW, it's not in Jeph's style to write drama of this sort. If he did decide to have a human/synthetic wedding, I think he'd prefer to (and likely have more fun with) contrasting the traditions of the two species and making jokes about the resulting hybrid ceremony (FAYE: "I am not sticking a USB cable in my ear for anyone!").
It's more in his style that he'll have a Reliable Narrator like Momo explain that this has all been sorted out ages ago, possibly including telling the tale. My favourite idea is something like that Joaquin Phoenix film, Her. A guy working for a bank that has an unembodied AI as its 24-hour trading monitoring and execution system. He pulls several night shifts and gets to know her (and the system very clearly identifies as female). Gradually, they fall in love and she ultimately takes up a buy-out of her contract, gets a anthropomimetic chassis and the two get married (and even adopt a kid).
Momo notes that the Supreme Court ruling was actually not close but that, to this day, many continue to fume about the extension of equal rights to that degree. Maybe Momo will note that the lady in question actually now teaches pure maths at Smif and all the students she's spoken to agree that she and her husband remain extremely in love. Another interesting twist would be that she was quite rich because of her bonuses from her smart trading; it was her money that partly paid for the development of highly-anthropometic chassis that exist in the present.
[EDIT - PS]
Maybe this was the test case that led to the AIs being granted equal rights with humans?
jesslc:
--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Apr 2019, 22:27 ---
--- Quote from: Mr Intrepid on 23 Apr 2019, 21:17 ---I don't think it's an issue of Faye being dishonest.
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You really think so?
Marten: She wants us all to come out for drinks tonight. How about I offer our place instead?
Dishonest answer:
Faye: No, no, it's fine. I can handle bein' in a bar.
Honest answer:
Faye: No, no, it's fine, but I may need some help with this.
It seems so out of character for her to decide to hide this from Marten, of all people.
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I was also very surprised that Faye didn't share her concerns about the bar with Marten. Not because of any beliefs about honesty is the best policy(*) but because I felt it was out of character for her, given what we've seen of their friendship post Faye's hospitalisation. She didn't hesitate to ask him to keep an eye on her in the past.
So I guess I'm leaning towards the "thinking about it while walking to work made her realise she wasn't as okay as she said she was" theory.
*(Personally I think that honesty is usually the best policy. But not always.)
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I wonder if we're going to have a brief weird moment when Tai (or Dora) realise that 2 out the 4 of people who have come to celebrate with them aren't drinking. Bubbles could smell some alcohol or try a robot beer if she wanted to, but I'm sure she'd see helping Faye stay sober as much more important.
I sure hope that if there is such a moment, that Tai/Dora won't say any of the various thoughtless comments I've encountered over the years when people realise I'm not drinking. I don't drink because I don't want to, I imagine such comments would be even more difficult for Faye to deal with.
TheEvilDog:
Well now I'm wondering if Tai is going to act as the tempter for Faye later in this story, trying to get her to have a drink to celebrate the engagement.
Of course, this could be an interesting time to look at Tai's own predilection for substance use and maybe some sort of realisation.
traroth:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 25 Apr 2019, 03:50 ---Well now I'm wondering if Tai is going to act as the tempter for Faye later in this story, trying to get her to have a drink to celebrate the engagement.
Of course, this could be an interesting time to look at Tai's own predilection for substance use and maybe some sort of realisation.
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Do you think any use of substance is abuse? Honest question, no innuendo intended.
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