corvis
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"I like this place and could gladly waste my time in it."
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Post by corvis on Dec 27, 2015 12:23:10 GMT
Merry belated Christmas, all!
Shadow comes in to bring Robot back to reality, and, yes, he seems to have learned his lesson too. We can only hope that Shadow's always there for his friend.
I ship them too, in a non-physical way--they are the most adorable pair ever!
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 27, 2015 19:39:26 GMT
I sadly in world we live in that is not true, pornography is one of biggest markets on internet, and what is popular is lots of things we find horrifying, including all sorts of types of incest. (Google searches for movie scenes, etc have a way returning porn matches... I suspect we would also see child porn if not illegal... people are willing to risk jail time to make or view child porn which likely includes incest child porn) Nope! The pornography industry is struggling. People aren't willing to pay, since they can get porn for free elsewhere on the internet. Sometimes even the same content, ripped from pay-to-view sites. Interesting. Maybe in the future regular pr0n will be so unprofitable that only niche pr0n will be made that people will be willing to pay for. Everything will be ponies and clowns and strange r34 of children's cartoons as the internet turns on the force that created it... a strange dystopian vision... |
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Post by tootsiren on Dec 28, 2015 2:03:51 GMT
Aww, Robot is such a great character. A sapient AI that has been stripped of their original function and therefore purpose, going on an existential journey to discover the meaning of their own kind's existence. As Robot gets closer and closer to his own human ideal they start to grapple with the internal conflicts and ambiguity that define humanity. Poor guy is so focussed on the physical that he's unable to see the leaps and bounds he's making in the emotional spectrum.
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Post by Storel on Jan 31, 2016 7:37:42 GMT
Also, interesting implication: do robots normally "forget" data, or is it a byproduct of the arm wired into his chip? If so, he may be becoming more human than he intended... Interesting question. I'll wildly speculate something like that could be caused by a buffer dump from an electrical irregularity of some type. While it's a side effect of "flesh" that makes Robot more human-like in the short run, something like that really should be looked into as a bug... particularly as more "flesh" is added later. Unless human mental illness/cognitive problems result in which case I guess it's not a bug it's a feature. I'm catching up on the comic, so I know this is a bit late, but I thought it was pretty simple: Robot is referring to the pain he was feeling as "data". The pain stopped, so the data is no longer present, and Robot has no way (yet) of storing organic data in his electronic memory, so he can't remember what the data was or why he was thinking about it. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Feb 1, 2016 18:31:15 GMT
Interesting question. I'll wildly speculate something like that could be caused by a buffer dump from an electrical irregularity of some type. While it's a side effect of "flesh" that makes Robot more human-like in the short run, something like that really should be looked into as a bug... particularly as more "flesh" is added later. Unless human mental illness/cognitive problems result in which case I guess it's not a bug it's a feature. I'm catching up on the comic, so I know this is a bit late, but I thought it was pretty simple: Robot is referring to the pain he was feeling as "data". The pain stopped, so the data is no longer present, and Robot has no way (yet) of storing organic data in his electronic memory, so he can't remember what the data was or why he was thinking about it. If you pull out the mike from the mike jack it wouldn't cause you to lose a recording you just made in volatile memory; for your take to be the case there would have to be something special about "organic" data, or Robot's perceptual architecture has shifted to something so subjective that without the current PAIN input his train of thought is now nonsensical to him (which is what I think you mean) or otherwise something else not held equal (like the file size exceeded allowed space and got overwritten). I'm of the opinion that data's data. He may be having trouble dealing with (processing) "richer" data or data in a different format but, being a robot, whatever input would still have to be converted to something he could handle via a bridgeboard (or two- a physical and possibly a software one created by Kat and/or Robot). The current robot language, I guess based on Diego's golem programming and created by ancestor-bots who hoped that their "offspring" would one day improve on their shortcomings, shouldn't just drop marbles because an input drops out UNLESS something's hidden in the code to do that on purpose. For that to be the case the program would have to be able to recognize pain data (which shouldn't be possible since data's data) or the code identified the data as "pain" through some sort of analysis. But if it thoughts and memories that lead robots to possibly subversive intellectual positions got dropped I think Robot and Ysengrin would be in the same boat by now. The comic just doesn't support that. And that brings my own train of thought back to buffer dumps. A physical one seems most likely because they just grafted a new piece of hardware onto him and we didn't see the guy reboot or anything. |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Feb 2, 2016 16:38:12 GMT
Metaphysical discussions I can handle, but I don't know enough about computer science to adequately analyze Robot's behavior, especially with the bleeding edge of fictional technology still being explored. This is why I love science fiction and fantasy!
I really need to start taking a programming course or something.
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