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WCDT 4176-4180 (13th - 17th, January 2020)
Aenno:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 18 Jan 2020, 09:27 ---I wouldn't say she could afford it casually. If it's something you can casually afford, you don't get a spontaneous nosebleed when they show you the price.
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Still, she can pay a price on the spot and continue living without changes in her lifestyle. That's what I meant by "casually".
Let me stand corrected to "it's quite affordable purchase".
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Aenno on 18 Jan 2020, 09:31 ---
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 18 Jan 2020, 09:27 ---I wouldn't say she could afford it casually. If it's something you can casually afford, you don't get a spontaneous nosebleed when they show you the price.
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Still, she can pay a price on the spot and continue living without changes in her lifestyle. That's what I meant by "casually".
Let me stand corrected to "it's quite affordable purchase".
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No, Marigold did have to change her lifestyle when she bought Momo's new chassis. She had to take out a loan to pay for the chassis and had to eat ramen for a while (pot noodles, not actual ramen). Its presumably when Momo got a job at SMIF library that Marigold was able to get back to her previous lifestyle.
Aenno:
--- Quote ---She had to take out a loan to pay for the chassis and had to eat ramen for a while (pot noodles, not actual ramen).
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Didn't she said she'll need to take loan for 30K chassis? For Idoru one she explicibly saying that she can afford it, just would need to eat ramen a little (and, actually, it's differ from her common diet how?..).
Also funny thing. She could afford a chassis, and, by the way, not the cheapest one (it's explicitly said that it's deluxe one, and basic one wasn't ok because Momo wanted more personality). Still, she wasn't able to buy clothes for said chassis, up to Hannelore giving Momo out hers. Which, I believe, means that she could by deluxe model of particular chassis line by the money she got on herself going to store.
And Momo got a job in SMIF library very fast. She got a body in strip 2001, that day ended in 2005, and she got a job in 2007. I always was under impression it was the next day, but no real declararions of this was given, I believe.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Wingy ---And related to that, how does an AI decide if they are male or female or neither for embodiment purposes?
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That is fascinating.
One thing we know from the comic is that we've never seen a synthetic switch presentation in any direction. Put that together with their overall inexplicable psychological similarity to organics. One natural conclusion is that they have a strong internal involuntary gender identity like we do. That conflicts with the early comic that said it was a configuration setting, but early comics about AI are not necessarily canon now.
Would a genderfluid synthetic have multiple bodies and switch between them to fit their current identity?
hedgie:
Or perhaps, a chassis that could adjust itself based upon their needs. Granted, this would be easier for an AI that is fine with a decent nudge to get from one side of androgyny to the other (or somewhere betwixt the two). Any required naughty bits could just be modular.
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