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Yellow.
Really? I was thinking green.
I've just started reading "A closed and common orbit" by Becky Chambers which is also about at AI with body dysmorphia. Recommended.
Sounds interesting - Amazon have it for kindle, so I have picked up the set to try it :)
Heh. Roko's unconscious made a joke. Amputees have phantom limbs. Roko is dreaming of a phantom body, which, luckily, doesn't hurt the way phantom limbs often do.
It would be crazy and kinda awesome if Spookybot like, gave Roko a little nudge that triggered this dream which just happens to resolve her issues. In fact, being a crazy powerful AI, that could be one of Spookybot's things. They could forsee and model advanced situations and figure out subtle "perception-of-free-will-preserving" actions that just nudge things in a direction of greater total well-being.
I suspect Yay's difficulties with interfering with peoples' minds is that it would actually be incredibly difficult to do it subtly. So maybe not, but... Is it just me, or does Ghost Roko's smile in Panel 4 look a lot like Yay's?
Tangential thought—I was thinking about what a cool a name "Roko Basilisk" is, and then wondered how AI get their names in the QC universe (aside from Jeph being good at naming characters). Do they choose them? Are they assigned at...awareness (or whatever the equivalent of "birth" is)?
It would be kind of alarming if there was an in-universe reason for Roko's name- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong#Roko's_basilisk
Two Rokos.....I'll be in my bunk.
I had a dream character terrified that I’d wake up and she would cease to exist.
There really is an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/390/
Yup, the new beverage sensation from the people who brought you Hot Gulp!
Reminds me, Halloween is coming. Time to buy the good candy. For me. And the candy corn. For the trick or treaters.
I've been informed that candy corn does not in fact count as a "treat", so that course of action would lead to the "trick" clause being invoked.
Hopefully this will be a valuable 'conversation'.
Ten bucks says dream!OldBody starts swearing in Bostonian before Dream!Roko does.
Not one I'd put money against lol
Pffft. Lame butt on that ghost. Nothing fancy at all.
I couldn’t help but hear the “oOoOoOoo” in my head as Tabitha St. Germain’s Rarity, complete with marshmallow hoof movements. “It is a ghost story. They’re all made up.”
*GITS theme song intensifies*
Soboy ostat'sya dol'she
Favorite color is clearly butts
Favorite color? Gotta be those orange kicks in the first panel. The other colors look washed-out.
Her old body is mad because she doesn't have the awesome butt emblem.
Does Roko miss her old body enough to, pardon me, objectify it with its own personality?
The word you're looking for is personify.
Panel 3. Either Escher is the town planner, or someone's caught in the gears.
Embrace the power of 'and'.
The ghost of her previous body needs to proverbially smack Roko upside the head and tell her to snap out of it. She can't have her old body back, so accept the new one. Yes, I <b>know</b> it's not as simple as that, so nobody jump down my throat. But hearing that from her own subconscious may just be the best thing for her.
*puts on throat jumpin' boots*
Panel #4. I just noticed the flashlight under rokost's chin. Cute!
If it was May's subconscious, it would be a Fleshlight.
Ooo... I’d love those bats’n’skulls as a background! 🖤
Or as pajamas!
Why do I feel like Yay is actually the ghost of Roko past, here? Then again, the entire cast is that sarcastic...
Pretty sure that's it. Yay is likely pioneering a new AI-driven, AI-helping PTSD treatment program or something. Which, if my theory proves correct, puts them on a collision path with Clinton, because in all the crew he's likely the one that'll be HELLA interested in the implications.
The stylistc choices between the two Rokos are interesting. Ponytail vs hair down. Different clothing styles.
And the ears.
In spite of their protestations, I'm thinking Yay may have something to do with this. Also, AI subconscious?
The AI mind structure is similar to the human mind, so it's not surprising that an AI would have a subconscious.
4th panel Rokost is the best expression you've drawn since my profile pic.
Just in time for Halloween.
Pink is good.
Oh my.
Do robots dream of electric ghosts
Sarcastic electric ghosts, apparently.
Wasn’t expecting that!