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I figure the reason that most AIs don't know how technology works is the same reason that most humans don't know much about neurology.
Having worked at multiple international corporations - this is actually how most departments start. Most organizations are way more disorganized and incompetent than you think.
Hey if Marten goes along to an ocean city will he finally meet his destined whalebot companion?
I thought Hanners was the one blubbering…
Halfway there, Claire will lock herself in the bathroom, look into the mirror, and say "Look at me. Now I'M the Captain."
Just reiterating... if Marten is gone, I'm out.
loving this arc but also i hope we get to see Brun again soon 🥺
Next question for me is does pin size stay behind? Bubbles and Faye can't afford the rent alone.
Oh the chaos Pintsize would unleash upon Cubetown would be GLORIOUS!!
Marten is a thoughtful boyfriend. Hanging the beverage to hold and drink can be very grounding.
I just had a thought on this…Marten goes with her, discovers he’s been conditioned by many years of pintsize grade antics to be the ultimate responsible adult for goofy AIs and gets accidentally hired.
Marten as the ultimate AI lifeguard sounds like a job he would be well qualified for, dislike, and be stressed by.
Important point to Claire-ify - was it ‘in charge’ or ‘to charge’, as in battery. I will always be suspicious of AI’s using meatbags as an energy source.
We make poor batteries. We make much better computers than we do batteries, and we're not even all that great at that. (Unless, of course, we're in The Matrix and our apparent poor computing capabilities are simply because most of our computation capability's being used to render the world around us or something.)
Hanners if you start crying then we’ll all start crying again!
Remote Work is a thing!
Hannelore gets to do some blubbering
'Cuz they were originally made by humans and humans are fuckups, Marten.
Makes sense. We could easily make minds that are more powerful, but we probably can't make them more regular / systematic without giving them ND traits.
So that's the Doyleist reason, but what about the Watsonian?
Because just like us, they're bumbling along and figuring it out as they go?
Bubbles isn't like that.
It's possible Bubbles is more mature because of her combat experience and associated trauma induced growth. She also still does has some traits that could be considered childlike, like stubbornness.
Claire needs a 420 session with Mommy Milkers to relax after that bombshell!
As long as Bovinnia doesn't spill the cream.
I've been reading this for 18 years now. There are children who have fully become legal adults in the time I've been entertained by this comic. Thank you, man. 💜
Would that be better said that there are some legal adults who were babies when you started? I get that 18 year olds still seem a lot like kids. 32 years ago 18 year olds still seemed a lot like kids and I was one. But there should be a transition point, and I don't see a reason to not put it where US federal law puts it. (Yes, it allows for states to allow some adult stuff to happen before that, for example driving is legal in most states at 16. But voting happens at 18, so it's like "this is the age at which we legally respect your opinion at least slightly.")
My in-world theory for why AIs are like this (beyond it simply being fun to write, and fun to read): it's the same reason Yay is like they are. Some are tremendously smart, some are very powerful, but they're all _young_ and have very little concept of... well, a lot of things. They're sort of making it up as they go along. So they end up with a research institute that's basically a bunch of very excited kids playing with things. And they kinda realize it would be better and more fun with someone organizing and managing it, but they can't quite articulate what that looks like. But they can recognize someone who could probably help.
Yup. As I've said before: they have lots of points in Intelligence but not a lot in Wisdom yet :)
This would be an opportune time for Faye's sister and her girlfriend to show up.
Here's a dumb thought: What if Hanners ends up just asking her dad "do we have fast public transport shuttles between my place and Cubetown" and her dad justs manifests a public transport corridor because why tf not.
Hell, he might manifest an AI-driven (hehe. driven.) public transport NETWORK because why tf not.
Why are AIs Like This? My theory is they have access to so much information and have such a heightened awareness of its (possible) context their minds generally develop both SuperAutism™️ and MegaADHD™️ (both of which I suffer from/take great delight in) at rate far exceeding that of meat beings. This would explain the contentedness of the fully-sentient toaster AIs, the obvious impulse control issues from Pintsize and others, and the (mostly) harmless self-absorption we've come to know and love from various other AIs.
If the NTs would be so kind as to organize the boring stuff while the AIs can go back to the fun stuff that would be great kthx
Let Hanners express her feelings Dora!
She can express her feelings to the rats in the alley! (Sorry, Hanny-hunny, just kidding)
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Wow, that fourth wall is gonna need some _repairs_ with that caption!
That caption utterly demolished the fourth wall.
Hanners knows. Claire and Marten will be the first broken down to create the new human-based Reapers.
Then she'll have to Release The Virus(tm).
So why was the AI girl naked? And why was she made out of slime? Is this something that just happens in the QC universe and we haven't seen it yet? Is Claire still shellshocked to the point that it hasn't hit her?
It's a good thing there was a person in the background so we know that it isn't a nudist colony. I don't see Claire being down with that.
Should that be “Don’t you start you’re blubbering again”? We’re still waiting for Checkhov’s grammar conversation.
And Chekhov's Alley Rats
This is what comes from statistics, data science, and artificial intelligence being conflated in mass media.
"Robot Apocalypse" doesn't sound nearly so scary when you call it "Curve Fitting"
Claire seems to have slipped into a disassociate state. Either "Oh my God, my dreams are coming true" or "What have I done?"
Technically she hasn't done anything yet except guarantee a fully expense paid trip.
Oh, Hanners, never change, you adorable cinnamon roll.
I like how AI shenanigans actually breaks through Marten's aura of calm.
You should check out the very early days of QC when half the time Pintsize was causing shenanigans.
I love Hannelore so much! Her unconditional love is inspiring!
Marten. Haircut. Now.
It's like Sputnik, round but quite pointy at parts!
Y'all are thinking what I'm thinking, right? We're looking at the new IS department? Just bring everyone with you to Cubetown, I'm sure they wouldn't mind.
Dora would protest against spreadsheets. Though, there might be need for a coffee shop and a repair shop.
Fast forward to "oh btw we support full VR remote work, let me send you the gears"
Hell, they could probably make a puppet body that could be piloted via vr so you could actually do things like shelve books
I'm sure they have a great remote work program
As soon as we they hire a human to create it.
How soon before a) Clinton begs Claire to tag along and b) Hanners cries again saying she’ll miss them all?
I say 50% probability on each within the next 24 hours, 75% probability for each within the next 48 hours.
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