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shanejayell:
New comic up!

That's kinda... distressing. Yay is at least considering what might be functionally lobotimizing themself.

Farideh:
Ugh, I hope that never happens. I'd love for the comics to delve deeper into Yay's intricacies, rather than them becoming a 'generic AI'.

I do wonder, if that happens, will Yay then become 'I' rather than 'we'? They did mention that sharing consciousness across multiple chassis is supposed to be impossible, so if they make themselves generic, then that sharing would cease to be.

BenRG:
Yeah, it looks Jeph has decided to do an extended Yay arc. Arguably it started when Yay jumped out at Roko and started trying to convince her that they aren't so bad (giving billions of dollars to random charities to do so).

The problem, as so many have pointed out before, is that Yay is a literal Deus ex Machina. Whilst this could be strongly disruptive to the strip (and not in a good way), it is also hard to write characters like that without them becoming either repetitive or imbalanced (if they don't act, why?). On the other hand, Yay simply doesn't work as 'just another AI'; there is literally nothing really interesting about them. I just wonder where this is all going and am concerned that there may be no 'good' outcome.

Tova:
I wouldn't be surprised if that were the end of the arc, in fact.

_Islanio:
It'd be rather disappointing.  I hope it doesn't happen, it would be like saying "it's okay to stop being what you are in favour of being accepted as something other than who you really are".

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