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WCDT strips 4221-4225 (16th to 20th of March, 2020)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Alexander Krizak on 17 Mar 2020, 18:52 ---Why do I have a feeling that if a human said what Millefeuille just said, it would be, like, one of the most racist things you could say to an AI?
And now I'm imagining everything that would go along with it: different schools of thought among AIs about avoiding "beep boop" all together versus reclaiming it and making it THEIR word, humans with robotic prosthetics like Clinton claiming that they're part-robot and therefore have "beep boop privileges"...
Dang it, why did my mind go down this path into this pit of snakes? Millefeuille's a lamp now. There. I'll focus on that.
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You didn't spent a lot of time in that part of tumblr, did you? The one where everyone is competing to prove moral superiority well beyond logic and reason.
TorporChambre:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 17 Mar 2020, 18:57 ---Lampshading how annoying drunk people can be? :D
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Methinks Fox demonstrates: Thousandleaf's Drinkr™'dness is lampshade-hat.
--- Quote from: Alexander Krizak on 17 Mar 2020, 18:52 ---Why do I have a feeling that if a human said what Millefeuille just said, it would be, like, one of the most racist things you could say to an AI?
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The reason is that that phrase is racist---regardless of the author or audience of a particular instance of that phrase being expressed. Specifically, it describes some misconceptions, stated in a way that may be (mis-) interpreted as generality (and some may earnestly believe that falsity). Furthermore, this falsity presents that class of persons as of lower value. Whether it is bad that that phrase was said by that person, depends wholly on the value of the changes that that instance of that phrase effects in the world. In this case, who suffers? Presently, only Thousandleaf---and he seems to be doing so willingly, or unwittingly. (My esteem tends towards the latter.) If that instance of that phrase is correlated positively with some harm, it is not the phrase (or any instance thereof) that harmed, but something else, possibly associated with that phrase.
More important are cases in which a racist item may cause harm, such as an otherwise initiative cybernetic intelligence being refused employment which requires initiative agents, e.g. due to a misconception that cybernetic intelligences are necessarily uninitiative. That would be something that people should care about. Instead, there'll be all those tumblrine (un-) intelligences acting on what one said.
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 17 Mar 2020, 21:16 ---where everyone is competing to [demonstrate] moral [``]superiority['']
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The only argument from me, presently, is that they are wasting their, and their audiences' times.
BenRG:
There's no way that Millie could be useful in her current condition and as she has rejected Renee's request to sober up (which is rude, IMO), Renee has done what she has to do to keep her out of the way whilst those in the apartment still capable of useful function are doing the unpacking.
Millie is one of those real Janus characters. Pleasant, intelligent and interesting whilst sober, an utter disruptive and annoying ass when drunk. I wonder if she knows this or whether she's in denial and thinking that there is a different reason why she has difficulty keeping friends?
Thrudd:
Just to add another modifier to the list of options in the poll.
The Anime movie is either a Studio Ghibli production or (shudder) Clamp (I personally do not care for the super elongated character models they use)
I do like the Red Dwarf style live action idea - definitely not modern Hollywood-esque scifi overuse of certain unnatural colour schemes and illogical decor.
The only challenge I see is makeup for the androids to smooth out the details and imperfections found on a meat chassis.
Feet issues are easily dealt with by just not showing android bare feet.
shanejayell:
Renee appears to have one solution to the drunk problem. Plant, lamp....
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