Whatever It Takes
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Well, BOTWING might be appropriate - and point out that an AI has donated a significant amount of money to helping repair meatspace injuries. Seems also only appropriate that they dedicate a portion of the wing to helping repair android bodies for destitute AIs in need...
Roko has a filthy mouth
yup. a djinn. shiny.
The most interesting part of their relationship is a BIG difference in processing power and speed of thought process. This is probably even more "alien" relations than between ordinary AI and human. Very interesting to see how and where it goes.
So how bad an AI swear is "AHSKFJDF"?
Whatever it is, it's not as bad as "QWERTY". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1200
Let’s hope Roko doesn’t do a silly here now.
so how should we pronounce what Roko said in the last panel? lol. if a human had that i'd assume stuttering and whatnot but she could literally be going "A-H-S.." from a stack overflow error
aren't there any touch typists left in the world?? those are the keys where your fingers rest. it means the coder convulsed/fell asleep/stroked out/was surprised while touching the keyboard. it's the outward manifestation of shock to a programmer; an involuntary exclamation, translated into AI.
From their point of view, we’re pets. They may (pun intended) regard our normal interrelationships as dogs sniffing each other’s butts. This is them scratching Roko behind the ears “Who’s a good dog? YOU are! Yes.” On the other hand, first rule of superhuman intelligences: we have no fucking clue.
I hope we get to see Spookyboo getting a hug for this.
Spookyboo must be very, very lonely, I remember Ursula LeGuin's story, Nine Lives, about a nine-member clone that was crap at relating to normal people because it had never had to.
"Sell all you have, and give it to the poor, and follow me. Ahskjdf,"
“I meant, follow me on Facebook!”
Panel 5 Roko is just PERFECT.
Wait a second. Something's not right. This is the third strip with this odd red-pink filter to it and it only started happening after spookybot showed up. I call shenanigans and claim this is some kind of ruse.
Point of evidence 2: Spookybot appeared out of nowhere in the first strip and they did promise Roko they would stop doing that. Although...they could have spotted Roko and just sidled up to her.
Just tell the hospital to name it the Legion of Doom Wing. The kids'll love it.
Please give spooky a crush!
SpookyBot is far to in love with themselves to fall for someone else. Fortunately for everyone else.
The Spookybot thread reminds me of the film Swordfish. They can do anything, anywhere, anytime, with what feels like unlimited resources.
I believe we have poor Roko going to go BSoD any moment. Does she have a paper clip to reboot? Lol
I'm afraid to ask where to stick that paper clip.
They're trying so hard but they've really forgetten how to interact on our level.
You're assuming they ever knew.
I mean honestly, though, this is exactly what I'd do with a significant amount of money (after lights on and dog feeding money, of course)
I think this is the first time we've learned that they don't have a name. Up until now we've thought we just didn't know their name.
Sedmon 7.0?
Right. Here is what Roko should have asked... "Where did you get that money in the first place?"
They're a supreme intelligence divided between many bodies. They could probably make money doing anything from architecture beyond human comprehension to washing dishes at 17 restaurants at once. That being said it was definitely some form of fraud.
Oh wow I didn't know Roko was a bottom I bet someone already made this joke but I ain't scrolling up to see
They did, and I still don't follow the logic, since it was Spookybot who immediately did what Roko told them to.
Deus ex Machina looking for friendship
Money can't buy me love
True, but they still found it amusing.
I love how robots use text-based expressions of astonishment. "AHSKFJDF" indeed! --N
I feel such a connect with Spooky in an odd way.
I'm a bit of a social recluse (I show up, but have trouble interacting), and once in a while I have someone with a powerful personality lean-in and insist on becoming my friend, and that I become theirs. This is always disconcerting, but I've long since chosen to trust their perspective over my admittedly limited one. And damn, if they aren't nearly always right, at least for a while. Multiple times I have been, without my own choosing, precisely what someone needed *right then*. And, in odd symmetry, they for me. It's that second part that baffles me: How can others possibly know what can or will work for me? Yet it keeps happening, about once a year or so. At some point, we simply have to lean-in too, and trust, and hope.
Such language, Roko! For shame!
I love this so much, spooky bot is (are?) so cute learning to make friends
I cannot imagine an AI that powerful not knowing exactly what they are doing here, though.
I love Spookybot so hard
FRIEEEEEEENNNNNDS? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1585
Oh God I remembered that smile before I even clicked the link...
Spookybot + dogs fanart next month on the patreon poll?
For someone who wants to keep a low profile, that wasn’t really a low profile thing to do. Depends on how traceable the transaction was I suppose. I assume that it is completely untraceable. And if it was, it would lead exactly to a person of Spookybot’s choosing.
The donations are traced back to Hanners’ Mom.
I would take my kid to spookybot general hospital
Spookybot Wing vs Gundam Wing. Fight!
Fuck, I <u><b>LOOOOOVE</b></u> Spookybot's dialog here and Roko's response in the final panel. Priceless!!!
This reminds me of the time the famous snowboarding rider Peekaboo Street had an ICU ward named after her. I’ll leave the name for you to figure out.
No, no, it's spelt "Picabo" but it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove"
"Spooky Wing" is a little too ominous, too
It never occurred to Roko to ask for anything for herself.
The last time Roko asked Spookybot for something for herself, they refused.
I'm pretty sure that for Spookybot playing the stock market is like shooting marbles with three-year-olds, so this says more about their impulsiveness than their affection for Roko, but it is still quite the gesture.
(Also, I'm amusing myself by thinking of Culture Mind-style names for Spookybot, but I don't want to annoy Jeph with something that might be too close to fanfic/backseat driving.)
The BLorg...
Spooky Bot got Roko to verbally keysmash? :o
Pint-size explained once that AI swears are home row key smashes.
Faye and Emily have interacted with them. Melon and Pintsize have probably heard the AI version of urban legends of them, and might be terrified of them. Crushbot might not be able to make a properly descriptive name. How about Hanners? The Ellicot-station wing might be nice.
Is that a neck venting or a mouth venting?
Looks like mouth. As in a puff of exasperation.
"The Spooky Bot Wing of the Children's Hospital". When I was a kid, I would have refused to go anywhere else.
The Spookybot Centre for Extremely Dubious Pediatric Medicine.
The faces in the last panel are incredible.
Spooky! NO! Bad superintelligence! Bad!
I think Spookybot wants to be more than friends with Roko. 😋😏😘
YES, I have been saying that all week!
Why's Roko so steamed about it?
Would YOU want a friend who could make any offhand comment instant reality? At least Space Station won’t turn another country into a glass plain on a whim.
"Pity we don't have a name." Jeph, suggestion for a voting challenge: What character, looking at Spookybot, gives them their name. Faye? Pintsize? Emily? Melon? Crushbot? :)
I feel like Roko will call them something backhanded that they end up loving, so my money is on her.
The question is: What isn't Spooky revealing?
I love spookybot
This feels uncomfortably like there was some selling of souls or some such.
Spookybot is the post singularity life form we need.
Oh yeah. DEFINITE. FER SURE...
Oh shit, Roko swears in AI!
I would love to be friends with Spookybot, idky she isn’t jumping at that opportunity
Right? She's the best kind of chaotic neutral.