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Cybrid-human offspring?
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Mar 2020, 03:03 ---
--- Quote from: TorporChambre on 19 Mar 2020, 03:01 ---``I have spoken to Dr. Ellicott on this matter; he offered sage advice, and to study our offspring.''
Oof ``Did you ask him whether normal kicks hurt so much?''
``Top Secret!''
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FWIW, given the Singularity and the number of robot-human relationships in the comic (both actual and potential), Jeph will probably eventually address the first cross-species child at some point, even if only with the characters discussing an announcement in the news.
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Cybrids being intellectual creatures, how would it even work? It's not like they have compatible genetic material---there'd have to be something interesting indeed.
Is it cold in here?:
It's a tall order any way I can think of.
One option would be to create a genome reflecting the traits of the AI and wrap a germ cell around it, then do standard IVF.
Another would be to upload a human to the AI creche and merge the patterns of the human engrams and a nascent AI.
Either way involves technology we have seen no hint of in QC.
I think Bubbles and Faye will adopt.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Oct 2020, 22:43 ---I think Bubbles and Faye will adopt.
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Not every couple wants a kid. Hell, they could just do what most long term queer lady couples I know do: get a bunch of dogs.
Cornelius:
It's what my ex and her now husband did as well.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 03 Oct 2020, 20:02 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 Mar 2020, 03:03 ---
--- Quote from: TorporChambre on 19 Mar 2020, 03:01 ---``I have spoken to Dr. Ellicott on this matter; he offered sage advice, and to study our offspring.''
Oof ``Did you ask him whether normal kicks hurt so much?''
``Top Secret!''
--- End quote ---
FWIW, given the Singularity and the number of robot-human relationships in the comic (both actual and potential), Jeph will probably eventually address the first cross-species child at some point, even if only with the characters discussing an announcement in the news.
--- End quote ---
Cybrids being intellectual creatures, how would it even work? It's not like they have compatible genetic material---there'd have to be something interesting indeed.
--- End quote ---
I was more thinking of the first adoption by a human-synthetic couple.
However, I am sure that Dr John is working on the technology and I could see a possible child whose consciousness was created like an AI's and encoded into the growing fetus's brain in some manner. Maybe also with other synthetic features like an electronically-augmented nervous system.
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