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WCDT 4111-4115 (October 14th-18th, 2019)
DSL:
"Aileron Homebrew Labrador Laundry Chicken" = first draft of Ardent's name from "Alice Grove"?
Obvious (so obvious to me that some commenter will probably call it "facile") takeaway here is that Roko's new body still doesn't make sense to her in the way her old one did.
Also, interesting concept that, in Roko's subconscious at least, soul and body are discrete and each has its own volition. Another facet of dissociation?
mike837go:
--- Quote from: mattjaco on 17 Oct 2019, 21:11 ---Could "Aileron homebrew Labrador laundry chicken" be like "Cirrus, Socrates, Particle, Decibel, Hurricane, Dolphin, Tulip" from the movie "A.I."? A series of seemingly meaningless, disconnected code words that activate some hidden function?
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I'll agree with the first 2/3 of your supposition.
I disagree the sequence has any genuine meaning. Roko and her new body are still getting to know one another.
This parallels having your car lost to an accident and driving a brand-new, better model. Now you have to get used to where all the controls are now. Half the muscle memory you developed activates the wrong function. It feels different.
Except an AI, with its much closer connection to its body, will feel this MUCH more intensely.
Spookybot is right to give Roko the room she needs to get used to a different reality.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: mattjaco on 17 Oct 2019, 21:11 ---Could "Aileron homebrew Labrador laundry chicken" be like "Cirrus, Socrates, Particle, Decibel, Hurricane, Dolphin, Tulip" from the movie "A.I."? A series of seemingly meaningless, disconnected code words that activate some hidden function?
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First, welcome new person!
Second - It actually might be the "shutdown sequence" that she was looking for initially when Yay "sedated" her in Monday's strip.
Wingy:
Is it just me, or does new-bodies-spirit have bigger chesticles than either old-bodies-spirit or Roko? Panel 4 of 4114 and Panel 5 of 4115 are what caught my attention.
And if that sequence is in fact a shutdown sequence, then why do we have Panel 7 of 4115?
This arc has me amusedly baffled so far...
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: Wingy on 18 Oct 2019, 06:43 ---And if that sequence is in fact a shutdown sequence, then why do we have Panel 7 of 4115?
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There's a difference between getting a prompt from documentation, and actually activating the shutdown sequence?
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