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WCDT Strips 4151-4155 (9-13 December2019)
shanejayell:
"WHO WANTS TO TOUCH MY NEW ASS!"
*lol*
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: Gyrre on 09 Dec 2019, 20:45 ---Just have to moderate, I guess. :roll:
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Well, I had to moderate to absolute zero, hence the being-pissed-off. I loved the buzz, the confidence & the embarrassing yourself. Just didn't like the eternal fatigue and the stinking-out-your-pores aspect of it, soooooooh ... my best mate had to find himself another bestie.
Has it been ... five years already? :? I think so ...
There was this thought-experiment I once heard about - If you could wire the pleasure centre of a monkey to give it an orgasm, and then hand it the control for the electrodes, how do you think it would spend its days?
Maybe it's a good thingTM that humans don't have a consequence-free drunk mode.
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I've mentioned it before, but I have to stop at buzzed. Being drunk is a thoroughly unpleasant experience for me thanks to being ADD. And the hangovers aren't any fun either.
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 10 Dec 2019, 05:19 ---We did see Bubbles face anti-AI harassment, and it played a significant role in her character arc.
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I've mentioned this before but Momo once told Marten that there is a religious group that denounces AIs as 'soulless'.
I've said this before but Jeph seems to use the AIs as his method to tell parables about human bigotry and inclusivity.
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Which, to my mind, is the better way to do it. You can highlight/speak to bigotry without using a real underprivileged group as a prop in your parable. Give the vulnerable and underprivileged representation, teach your lessons with someone else (preferably made up).
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Just be careful how you go about it and do a better job at it than the movie Bright].
Timemaster:
Oh my god, butts disease turned into boats disease. :-D
TM
Blackjoker:
On the Marten topic: I think this is a decent direction, and I think it's kind of important for another reason, Marten has consistently had fairly bad luck when he has tried to be proactive or stand up for himself. While he is ultimately responsible for his own happiness this might end up better overall for him and I also appreciate that he and Claire are actually talking like adults instead of either shouting at each other or weaponizing insecurities (either to hurt someone or to use as an excuse for poor behavior re:Dora)
On the pintsize note: Him being fulfilled might actually be more he is genuinely happy to be doing an anthropc thing of making a human feel better. He actually tried sincerely to help Marten at one point and got a bit mad when it worked but Marten seemed unhappy still. So the idea of him being genuinely useful and helpful for a human may have actually helped him feel he was fulfilling a base goal of his programming.
On the notes of AI in the economy: Oh god that is a fucking can of worms that I don't even want to think about. There are a lot of arguments about bigotry etc. The main problem I can see jhappening is that since they can be copied, can function from a computer and multiple bodies, there are some not-unrealistic concerns about intelligent automation basically replacing a large number of workers from all but the most specialized jobs. It isn't fair to teh AIs and it's a fault of the capitalist model, but I can still see and sympathize with those afraid.
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