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WCDT strips 4206 to 4210 (24th - 28th February 2020)
SeattleCrochetWoman:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 26 Feb 2020, 04:53 ---Personally, I generall y don't even think of the AIs as AIs until the context of the strip is something inherently robot-y .
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Me either. Most of their problems are the same as ours. May’s problems with her chassis correspond to someone with no health insurance who has physical problems that aren’t life-threatening, but that negatively impact their day-to-day existence.
BenRG:
If I believed in that sort of thing, I'd start saying that this advocacy group has some sort of curse. In truth though, it is just a reminder that 'fully funded' and 'well run' are not automatically intersecting sets. Just because you personally like someone doesn't meant that they can do the job that you want them to do.
I wonder if the 'existential crisis' was basically what Beepatrice has gone through a few times since we met her: "I don't know what I'm doing! Why am I even here? I'm a huge fake!"
For some reason, I can see Roko going to the museum to see her ultimate boss on occasion, talking into thin air about what is going on at the group for a while before getting annoyed and calling the garden statue a coward for abandoning the group and storming off. Final panel is the statue thinking: "Turing! I'm glad I retired when I did!"
In any case, they are now in a perfect position for Hannelore to step in to follow her own sense of responsibility. After all, we've not confirmed that there is no existing authority structure for her to subvert!
St.Clair:
Hm. (Golden Age of) Science Fiction author, female, deceased, probably lived/active on the East coast and the Boston area in particular, liked robots (though that may be more common in a world where they actually exist)... anyone care to take a guess? Do you think Jeph had someone real in mind?
(If not for the 'she', I'd have gone with Asimov as the obvious pick.)
Tova:
Roko never stopped to wonder why she'd never been introduced to any other volunteers, I guess.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 26 Feb 2020, 23:27 ---Hm. (Golden Age of) Science Fiction author, female, deceased, probably lived/active on the East coast and the Boston area in particular, liked robots (though that may be more common in a world where they actually exist)... anyone care to take a guess? Do you think Jeph had someone real in mind?
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Dorothy Fontana, one of the real creators of Star Trek, come to mind. She was a New Jersey girl.
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