Experimentation
PEER PRESSURE
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“We’re now drunk. That makes us only 200 times smarter than any other intelligence in the solar system. Gosh. What fun…”
This is the first time that I've explicitly noticed Jeph using singular verbs to describe Yay. That makes language easier.
I'm confused - Yay refers to herself as "us" throughout, and Roko uses "you", which is already plural - when was there a singular?
They can feel Roko’s smirk. THAT’S peer pressure!
Other than Faye in #4778, there haven't been any non-AI since #4764.
Meatbags. Who needs 'em. Amiright?
In this context, I think it'd work better to say "Yay thinks the two of them are peers". Otherwise, it sounds as if it's Yay that "they" refers to.
It would be weird if Yay wasn't peers with themselves.
panel fout is Yay visualizing a drunk afternoon compressed into an AI split second of experience
Roko's a peer? I guess we'd better put down sawdust the next time she gets drunk
Roko and Yay about to go Bonnie and Clyde
Yay knows, even with her eyes shut, that Roko is smiling at her in that way which makes her feel all flustered somehow... But honestly, having a Roko/Yay strip with the title EXPERIMENTATION is deliberate audience baiting at this point :)
And is deliberate audience baiting something new for Jeph? :)
You shouldn't ramp a Ferrari off an overpass. You should, however, back a Rover down the driveway, drive it down the highway, and fly that motherf**ker off a bridge.
I was never much for getting drunk. It mostly made me sleepy anyway. Now, twelve years after my stroke, my memory, language facilities, judgement etc are affected to a level comparable to, I guess, a moderate buzz. One that has lasted for years and taken away my ability to work, enjoy a book, or follow a dramatic movie. I'm with Yay in the first panel (but actually also with Roko in the second). Don't diss your sobriety, people.
I am so sorry about your stroke, Peter. Regarding sobriety? As a sober alcoholic, I would never "diss" or give up mine.
freaking demi-god AI with the Impulse control of Pint Size? NO,,,, NOPE. Pass.
Roko ENJOYS bullying Yay. :)
Only thing missing is Hanners or Mar to observe “oh, I see how the dynamic is” :)
Panel 2: Sherlock Yay.
Indubitably, my dear Basilisk.
I want to see Yay peer pressure themselves into doing crazy shit for a few weeks.
We don’t see Yay stealing a Ferrari. But we only see one of their bodies……
So one of those bodies is Tyler Durden?
"It would be even more awesome to take a Ferrari down to the docks and - " "STOP PIER PRESSURING US!"
*golf clap*
The fact that Yay even halfway associated Roko as their peer is qctually massive character development for them.
good point.
I completely agree with Yay’s statement in the first panel. Something I live by.
Ditto
Yay and Roko... Which one is Thelma, and which is Louise? Because that's the picture in my head, and I'm not sure which is behind the wheel.
Please let neither of these two dweebs drive a car. Roko because theyd be stopping at too many bakeries. Yay because someone would actually die.
Since cognitive function of an individual likely only affects local perceptual hardware, I don't think the others would BE drunk, though they would be aware of how it parses in the node, extrinsically
Wait, Roko and Yay are the bastiges that keep resetting my IRC connections? We hates them forever!
Use RETURN key - this comment system isa rather primitive. Yay does not approve.
Wait 'til you discover you can edit messages! Shift+Enter for blank lines for me.
Note to self - Do not use to try to insert whitespace into reply.
One does not simply “Enter” to add a line break. It is folly.
Ah, yeah. How many of us have said that? Repeatedly?
It depends on who you wake up next to.
"I'm never getting drunk again."
Oh Yay, you poor deprived....larval-stage God AI. Do you really need to ramp a Ferrari off an overpass with all the simulations you are obviously doing?
One does not simply “ramp” a Ferrari off an overpass…it is folly.
Is that like simply walking into Mordor?
d'awww
I just realized the comic has only featured one human character (Faye) in almost a month, and that was just for one strip. For some reason this amuses me.
The AIs are slowly taking over the content of the strip. They already took over its creation - the being we knew as Jeph has been replaced by a stack of server blades in a trenchcoat.
If one instance of Yay cranks it to 8, will it affect all of them? Yeah, this'll be a great livestream!
Oh dear, this will not end well.
You have a funny definition for how this will end in AWESOME!!
I'm love them so much
Okay but Yay is a capable of large scale destruction to the wider AI network and the global economic system. Maybe don't get a sentient Ethereum blockchain drunk.
Roko panel 5 is ADORABLE and amused and also somehow definitely not laughing at Yay (maybe WITH).
Now I want Roko & Yay hijack the general e lee & jump it off a ramp while the local county sheriff department is bewildered and flummoxed.
Reverse-peer-pressure!
Yay probably has a combat grade chassis so the risk of launching a Ferrari off an overpass is acceptably low. Either that or they just merge back into the collective if the instance is destroyed.
Perhaps like a cylon?
I will never forget Yay's first appearance in CoD. The contrast with the current Yay is quite dramatic!
Can Yay run a simulation of themself trying it? I feel like doing it IRL could produce some large and awkward consequences.
And a surreptitious visit to Union Robotics with the "dead" body...
...Yay's actually DONE that last one, haven't they...
Note that they said "you don't see us doing that"... which could be taken as literal rather than metaphorical...
I think we've discovered Yay's weakness. . o O (Of course, not really having had the experience of having peers/a social circle will do that.)
It's not just peer pressure - mom rays worked, too. It's social pressure in general, because they are very lonely.
If...if Yay gets drunk do all the bodies get drunk?
Right? Where does she fall on CAP theorem of distributed databases anyways (consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, pick 2). Can she be partitioned or must all nodes be consistent at all times?
Next up: Yay and Roko in a Ferrari, doing donuts as a prelude.
Ferraris don't do donuts. They only do Bomboloni.
Squeeee
So wait which peer of theirs is pressuring them about the Ferrari thing?
So Roko is a peer you say, maybe even an equal?
DRUNK YAY BOTTOM TEXT
They have, in fact, stolen a Lamborghini and ramped it off a skyscraper.
Which is why they said Ferrari. That makes it a factually correct statement.
Yay is the best.
I know it’s true because Yay told me themselves.