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WCDT Strips 4006-4010 (20th-25th May, 2019)
torrrential:
This one was from a long time ago, but I remembered it!
https://xkcd.com/595/
Mr Intrepid:
--- Quote from: Raptorofwar on 23 May 2019, 00:42 ---1. TFW you can't actually read the letters in the registration for this forum. (I swear I'm not a robot.)
2. Well this has been an interesting set of comics! It does kinda remind me of Sven's almost-relationship with Faye, though, in the two's dialogue. Momo's going to be upset.
I wish I had money for the Patreon to see if Svarn has a clown nose.
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It's as little as $1 a month, you know. I did $5. $60 a year to support a guy who produces something I enjoy.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Case on 22 May 2019, 13:13 ---
--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 22 May 2019, 11:29 ---As I said, if no particular feelings of your own are involved with banging that person (besides lust), is it then worth potentially hurting your friend's feelings?
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Consummating your lust might spark a deep, lasting relationship. The situation would then no longer be appropriately described by your framing of "only lust" vs. "friendship".
Happens rather frequently, or so I've heard ...
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Point well-taken, as my own current highly involved and monogamous relationship of > 7 years started that way... :-D
You may now ask, well what if I had had a friend with a crush at that time on my current partner? Well, in all honesty I would probably either not have indulged myself (and yes, possibly haev missed out on my current relationship), or I would have simply asked my friend how he/she would feel about it. The latter may sound odd, but somebody asked me prior to sleeping with somebody I had feelings for, and even though I would not have been hurt by it anyway, it still helped by knowing my friend was considerate.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: oddtail ---I mean, assuming at least a similar mental capacity to humans, retaining EVERYthing would be maddening. Humans don't process everything we perceive, so we effectively "forget" almost everything pretty much instantly. Maybe in QC-verse, consciousness fundamentally requires being selective and auto-deleting data.
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That idea meshes with Tova's putting forgetting onto a list of attributes of personhood such as desiring relationships.
"Maddening" is something I wondered about. If your memory is a hard disk and you have instant total recall of every shameful and humiliating experience of your life, insanity would be a relief.
We know from Bubbles that her storage is neither like a hard disk nor like a homo sapiens brain.
It still seems weird, though. I've often wished my short term memory and memory of my calendar were better. If I were implemented in silicon I would expect things like that to Just Work and I'd find forgetting my charging cable as inexplicable as if I started bleeding.
Hmm. It's not a recall thing, though, is it? It's an attention thing. A human-comparable being will certainly be susceptible to distraction, and that's what apparently happened to May.
MweneChanga:
Since AI arose spontaneously from a certain hardware-software configuration, I imagine it’s not perfect, and ended up more human than it’s creators intended. I also imagine that a good body has things like calendar reminders, password reminders, WiFi (we know May has that one), and various other API hooks that the mind can take advantage of. I imagine May’s body has the bare minimal set of such tools - a built in $40 android phone suite, not well tested for reliability or usefulness. So she could count to a million by threes, but only if she’s paying attention - her subconscious doesn’t do much better than human when she’s distracted.
I’ll bet a body upgrade would make life easier in lots of ways, but for that she’d need a better job, or a rich boyfriend.
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