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WCDT 4431-4435 (4th-8th of January, 2021)
DaiJB:
Hello Apricot! :-)
It must be kind of hard to avoid eavesdropping* on this conversation going on behind her head...
Now, will Apricot be somewhat Momo-like, and be squirming a little in embarrassment over what she's forced to overhear?
Or more Melon-like, and therefore a total ditz... :-D
In which case, be prepared for some totally random comment next.
*(I wonder if AI's in this universe can "shut off" or otherwise avoid hearing private conversations? )
Gyrre:
IDK. I might be misreading her expression in the lower left corner, but I think she might have some mild discomfort but is trying to keep her smile? IDK.
Also, fruit sister confirmed?
[I really hope I didn't screw up any plans regarding Melon's relatives with those fanarts.]
BenRG:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 05 Jan 2021, 06:35 ---*(I wonder if AI's in this universe can "shut off" or otherwise avoid hearing private conversations? )
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Technically, humans have discriminatory hearing at that level; we just need an alternate audio stream onto which to focus our minds. Apricot just needs to connect to iTunes or something and stream an album.
Mordhaus:
Jokes aside, if I was to imagine Robot Jail, I would suspect that they have a way to nullify an AI's personality and emotions. Basically turning them into a 'machine' that they then have perform similar calculations to those that supercomputers do. Maybe they would leave just enough 'intelligent' thought for the AI to feel that they are missing 99% of what made them, well, THEM.
The end result being that the AI understands that if they repeat the offense, the prison has no problem turning them back into a simple computer, while their 'consciousness, rails against an invisible wall as time passes.
Case:
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 04 Jan 2021, 22:12 ---Kids with no filters sometimes are the best and cheapest therapy.
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For "adults" without filters? You might be onto smth here ... :-D
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 04 Jan 2021, 20:34 ---I'm guessing that the tone of May's reaction is less "can't explain it in relatable terms to a human experience" and more "Kid, you literally have no idea what I have gone through, both in prison and out of it and its mildly insulting that you think you know what it was like".
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--- Quote from: awkwardness on 04 Jan 2021, 22:12 ---It was bound to happen, but Sam's sincerity and empathy is actually something that I don't think anyone else has shown her before. Sam is trying, which is better than ignoring the past and not addressing it because you don't want to hurt May's feelings or you're apathetic to it.
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I agree with both of you. Sam is a kid, and she's sincere in her wish to form an empathetic connection by trying to understand someone else's experience via extrapolation from her own. She hasn't yet learned that this can be ... anything from helpful to anoying or hurtful, and she'll hopefully never get to the point where she can truly understand May's experience. An adult - even a 'nominal' one - should take that into account when reacting to something so simultaneously touching and woefully inadaequate. But May also has a right to express her feelings when forced into a conversation she did not want - and whether by design or dumb luck, she expresses them in a way that the sting in her words goes right over Sam's head.
Bit like watching two shitfaced porcupines crossing a river on a kid's dinghie and actually making it to the other side.
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