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WCDT 10-14 May 2021 (strips 4521-4525)
Dock Braun:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 13 May 2021, 09:39 ---If we're assessing character, May strikes me as a mixed bag and I'm hard pressed to form an opinion about her with any confidence.
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She's demonstrated honesty, creativity, duty, interpersonal acuity, respect, diligence, responsibility, and endurance. On the other hand, she's impulsive and made one pretty big mistake. Her impulsivity might be controlled by setting appropriate restrictions, and I'm inclined to believe, after all we've seen of her interpersonal growth, that she's learned, despite systematic vengeance, her lesson.
I appreciate, by the way, your abstinence from (mis)characterization;
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 11 May 2021, 23:27 ---There's a big difference between being assertive when necessary and enjoying pushing people around for its own sake, and May is very much the latter.
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I don't recall any evidence of frivolous commands or manipulation from May, though she is quite brusk. I suspect often that many persons fear admitting the perfectly valid reason of interpersonal incompatibility, against hiring certain persons for certain roles. (click to show/hide)It's taboo! It reminds us of prejudice---potential, in oursen---so we grasp for more presentable reasons. It's sad per-se, seeing one hiding one's own self from themself, but it's sad further, when the hiding self-misdirects to believe fabrications. My condolences to such self-mislead, naturally, but their acts and echoes magnify and distort our challenges, embellish fault onto (lightly) dissonant lifestyles; Metaintolerance engendering misconceipt.
David F:
I'm impressed that May managed to top Dale's "I quit!" moment.
Perfectly Reasonable:
'May reporting for duty' will now become a wallpaper, along with 'Reporting for duty' Emily.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: David F on 14 May 2021, 11:43 ---I'm impressed that May managed to top Dale's "I quit!" moment.
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Well, yes, but that poor plumbing! Cloth should never go into the sanitary sewer...
Wingy:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 13 May 2021, 19:07 ---(Are there public nudity laws for robots?)
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Well, if they're like Barbie, as May's first body was, then maybe not? But if they're behipped and betitted or bepen*sed, why would human laws about such not apply?
Regardless of the legality, for a humanoid AI to run around "naked" would cause more than a little stir, and in ways the AI (who is trying to fit in after all, otherwise why would Bubbles find reading a physical book desireable (her word, "performant")?) probably doesn't want. Note that Jeremy, Pintsize, the arachnid AI, etc. don't wear clothes on a regular basis. Seven is the odd Humanoid AI in that regard - though the revamped Jeremy was shown without clothes several times during and after his transformation. I'm counting Bubbles armor as clothes for this discussion. Seven may be different because her body was fairly heavily stylized and obviously not human even if humanoid.
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