Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: Dec 20th to 24th, 2021 (4681 to ????)
Farideh:
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Dec 2021, 23:14 ---My weird confession for the week (maybe year) is that Bubbles used to remind me of Is it cold in here? but today reminds me of Farideh.
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Really? I'm intrigued :)
hedgie:
We don't have much experience with completely alien intelligences. Even with higher primates having so many similarities with us, can't really tell us what they're really thinking.[1] Birds such as crows or ravens are at least as intelligent as those apes, but far different from us. Octopodes are the closest thing to aliens amongst us, coming from a completely different evolutionary branch. QC AIs, though, are going to be less alien to us than even say, chimps, despite having physical stuff that's even more alien than cephalopods. The first AIs did emerge on human-built systems, and had been assimilating a corpus of human created things, culture, thought, whatever. A self-programming computer in this case would probably become even more like us via interaction…
Or, maybe that's what they're letting us believe.
[1] Okay, I'm pretty sure that those monkeys sitting in those hotsprings in the Japanese alps are thinking, and that's "yeah, this is the life"
Farideh:
New comic.
I had forgotten that Sam had employed May, although contrary to what Faye says, May had already started that job. Granted, she only seemed to be there for 1 day and probably didn't get paid, but still. I hope May resigned in person, and didn't leave it to Bubbled to break the news. The way Bubbles phrases it is ambiguous.
sitnspin:
I assume she resigned via emoji and/or gif in the group chat.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 21 Dec 2021, 14:22 ---If you triangulate the surface of a cube, you end up with 12 isosceles right triangles, each of which has two legs (assuming that an edge can be said to be made of a leg from both adjacent triangles). None of those legs have any bends in them - indeed, none can have any bend in them or else it would not be the leg of a triangle - so I would argue there are no knees or elbows, but at the apex of each triangle there is a pelvis.
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And now it's body horror.
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