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WCDT 4136-4140 (Nov 18th-22nd, 2019)
Case:
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Nov 2019, 18:33 ---P.S. I almost feel like Jeph was bending over backwards to make some kind of funny, because I'm sure that the most natural thing to have said in this context would have been, "... working on butt implants for a humanoid AI chassis."
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You mean 'it's all about the jokes ('bout the jokes ... )'? 8-)
Tova:
\o/ yay!
Yes. 8-)
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: Tova on 22 Nov 2019, 18:33 ---and to be frank, you don't get to decide what other people do or do not discuss.
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?
I never suggested I did.
But w/e, moving on.
Mordhaus:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 22 Nov 2019, 02:42 ---Why would "human standard" imply anything about DNA? There's plenty of things that we think of as humanlike, and it may imply function, shape, any number of things, and have nothing to do with genetics.
The term "human standard" makes sense, because AI often, as we've seen, have very non-human bodies. "Anatomically correct" is very human-centric in a world where a mechanical body can be a giant spider, a fighter jet or a house appliance (a spider-like body can also potentially be "anatomically correct", technically, just to spider anatomy). Bipedal chassis with arms, legs, faces and all that stuff clearly deliberately mimic human characteristics to varying extent, so "human standard" makes perfect sense as a descriptor.
Not to mention, even in real life without robots and AI and whatnot, "anatomically correct" often refers to "having realistic, or at least present, genitals". So I can see how it'd carry some stigma if artificial bodies were a thing, as they are in QC-verse.
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What exactly is human standard? Two arms, two legs, and a head? How tall is human standard? How wide is human standard? What color is human standard?
Whereas you could easily say anatomically correct and be fine. She is a female robot and therefore needs a more feminine posterior, unless she were to specify otherwise.
Mordhaus:
--- Quote from: Case on 22 Nov 2019, 15:54 ---
--- Quote from: Mordhaus on 22 Nov 2019, 01:49 ---Yeah, no. Anatomically correct is the most effective term. Human standard would imply they had human DNA.
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Errrrhno, it would not?
--- Quote from: Mordhaus on 22 Nov 2019, 01:49 ---Sorry, I'm one of those people that will never buy into multiple terms to suit every single person's need to feel special
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Hello 'generic, unremarkable hominid', I'm Case!
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Hello Case, your example is perfectly valid. However, if you were to meet me and say Hey, man, I would be fine with that as well.
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