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WCDT strips 4036 - 4040 (1 - 5 July 2019)
SmilingCat:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 03 Jul 2019, 19:09 ---I see Roko's rant as this:
Imagine if you just went out and bought yourself a car. A nice, brand new car. You'd saved up for a down payment, got some financing for it - and managed to agree with the dealership/seller over the price. You were still trying to iron out the exact details and the delivery, and how to pay for some other stuff, when you run into your friend who you know has access to a ton of money. You mention to them what you were trying to do, and how you had all this difficulty, and you were financing it.
Your rich friend informs you that they own the bank/financing company. Instead of deciding to help you with your loan, they get on their phone and buy themselves a brand new Aston Martin - direct from the factory.
That is what has Roko so pissed.
--- End quote ---
Then Roko needs to grow up.
Blackjoker:
It's also worth remembering that a lot of AIs have their own social issues too. Pintsize is a good example of this on an extreme end. Part of it is that they're an emergent intelligence and that can cause some interesting growing pains as a side effect. Spookybot is interesting here though, something or someone infinitely powerful is going to be flippant (see also Q). I like the idea here though that they want to have a friend, want to have someone that they can interact with and they are trying to be better or at least to make the friend happy.
Is it cold in here?:
Arrogant Architeuthis has had no opportunity to develop social skills.
brasca:
For fun I chose other and that would be Beepatrice. Of course she might have to be talked down from a ledge because if she gets an inferiority complex from Roko meeting an AI god would be too much. At least she would try to do better instead of Roko who resents Spookybot for accomplishing more than her with a snap of the fingers.
Spookybot makes some good points until panel 3. That zero-interest body loan idea is what Roko wanted in the future. If they agreed to do that in the first place they could've avoided all this.
DSL:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 03 Jul 2019, 19:09 ---I see Roko's rant as this:
Imagine if you just went out and bought yourself a car. A nice, brand new car. You'd saved up for a down payment, got some financing for it (clip for space) ... Your rich friend informs you that they own the bank/financing company. Instead of deciding to help you with your loan, they get on their phone and buy themselves a brand new Aston Martin - direct from the factory.
That is what has Roko so pissed.
--- End quote ---
... so we wait to see if and when Jeph has Roko see the parallel between SB's charity vs. her charity, and her new chassis vs. May's chassis struggles.
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