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2020-10-15, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-10-15, 02:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-15, 04:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2010
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I love how Yay is seriously offended (or, less probable, faking being such) in the last panel there. Somebody used to dealing with people from an enormously more powerful position is not going to react well the being effectively blown off like that.
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2020-10-15, 05:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
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Tales of a Role-Play Gamer - Horrible Optimisation
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2020-10-16, 12:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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- NYC
Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
... I'm not sure how creepy Yay is being right now?
Like, maybe they should be smart enough to know that "come over any time" is not literal, but at least they're purposely establishing a potential boundary rather than tread over it and cite the rule.
And I'm fairly certain that they wouldn't hack Elliot's door open (or whatever unscrupulous way they'd get access to his apartment) outside of a dire emergency.
So, uh... tentative thumbs-up?
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2020-10-16, 06:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I think it's leaning into their "still learning not to abuse her power" thing. They have realised that they should ask permission before entering someone's home, but hasn't quite grasped the nuances of that person being asleep, or that it's at least polite to pretend that they doesn't already know his door-code.
I don't think they're intentionally being creepy, just that no one has expressly told her that entering their home at 2am to play with a pet while the owner is sleeping, is weird. As they proved with Roko, literal-mindedness is one of their traits and Elliot did say "any time" after all...
I agree; tentative thumbs-up. They're learning, but not quite there yet.~ CAUTION: May Contain Weasels ~
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2020-10-16, 07:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I'm pretty sure Melon is supposed to be seen as an outlier, but it seems to be.. not exactly normal but not uncommon (like a largish minority) for AIs to not be socialized to human standards or have not internalized some of the things about human culture that most actual humans just assume nobody has to state explicitly. Things like 'you don't cross the boundaries of somebody else's living space without direct invitation' and 'about half of what anybody says is not meant to be literal.'
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2020-10-16, 07:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I made a webcomic, featuring absurdity, terrible art, and alleged morals.
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2020-10-19, 04:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Clinton's arguments aren't well thought out there, in all likelyhood AI would get separate leagues unless the improbable happens and they are all roughly human level at it (which with how QC treats them as weird humans is possible). Yes tall people can play basketball which is why few small people can hack it at the top level of basketball. (Looking the shortest NBA players of all time the shortest is at 1.60 but place 10 is already at 1.75m (5’9”)) Introducing AI to esports (any sport really without chassis limitations) would eliminate human players from the professional level. We have seen smarter than human AIs they wouldn't just have no input error they should be able to act and think much faster and analyze everything at a deeper level. Also who says a pitching machine can't be the body of an AI?
I suppose you could figure out a way to do something like weight classes since many AI seem to be just human level.Last edited by Ibrinar; 2020-10-19 at 04:40 AM.
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2020-10-19, 05:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
It's also interesting to note with regard to the basketball example, that the NBA - which sets the trends for other leagues - has changed the rules over time in a way that disadvantages extremely tall players by limiting the amount of time they can spend in close proximity to the net (the width of the paint was doubled in 1951 specifically to inhibit the dominance of 6'10" George Mikan, then one of the tallest players in the league) and what they can do there, especially on defense. Oh, and by adding the 3-point shot which drastically changes the overall math of shooting and disadvantages interior dominance. Consequently the most impactful players in the modern game are now shorter than those of the previous generation, despite overall increases in player heights due to nutrition and a broader recruitment pool.
Leagues compensate. So in the input errors case, I imagine that esports leagues would mandate embodiment and use of a human-functional interface for all AI competitors, probably with restrictions on the chassis in terms of fine motor control, essentially cramming them into a human-equivalent form. This would make sense from an entertainment perspective anyway, no one wants to watch a pair of immobile boxes compete against each other.
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2020-10-19, 07:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
RE Clinton's morning: Sounds familiar.
It is an interesting question, though.
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2020-10-19, 07:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2016
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2020-10-19, 08:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2010
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Im just wondering if this is meant to be an AI version of the argument over trans athletes playing in the league whose gender they identify as and the uproar over that.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-10-19, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I dont think its meant to be a direct analogue, but to be coming from similar places.
As somebody who follows E-sports, the existing AI-s can already out control any human player, period. Our only advantage is our ability to think laterally around a problem and basically trick the AIs into doing things that dont help them win. But QC level AIs wouldnt fall for that, so if you allow them to compete directly with humans without forcing them to be embodied as was suggested above, humans wont be able to compete in E-sports anymore.“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2020-10-19, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
In a way, we already human/AI separation in chess as there is obviously a ban on using AI for human matches (quite a few people actually got caught cheating recently as all the events moved online) and there are separate matches between different chess algorithms even with official world championships being held regularly since 1974.
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2020-10-19, 10:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
This is going pretty well so far it seems. So, are we gonna get invisible llama part 2, Brun showing up, sudden fire, or all of the above?
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2020-10-20, 03:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-20, 06:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
He will get drunk and have to be escorted out of the bar. Much awkwardness abounds.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-10-21, 03:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Now I'm wondering what Eliot's mental picture of a "big pointy dog" looks like.
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2020-10-26, 12:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Huh, I'm actually kinda surprised that this ended up this way.
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2020-10-26, 12:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I'm not. Brun never showed interest of the sexual variety in... anyone. And I also remember her already expressing disinterest in Clinton at one point.
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2020-10-26, 01:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Plus, the author has clearly favored Clinton/Elliot for a long time; it was inevitable that his previous supported pairing would collapse.
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2020-10-26, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Bugger. No fully involved love triangle.
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2020-10-26, 10:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Kinda was hoping it'd go in an "asexual but still romantic" (or whatever the 'hip' term is, not that there needs to be shorthand) direction, but I guess par for the course, everyone needs to be sexually interested in another person to be even mildly attracted to them in this community.
Also, I don't recall any comics showing outright disinterest in Clinton, if anything, just a lack of interest but that's because most of their scenes are pretty casual.Characters I've enjoyed playing for more than four sessions:
Falgar the Swiftblade
Revain Sumeth, Whip Fighter Extraordinaire
Malvin Firel, Cleric of Corellon, Destroyer of Undeath
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In defense of the Vow of Poverty
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2020-10-26, 09:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
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- Dancin' away
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Could still be demisexual based on the latest strip, I think? Iunno for certain.
i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me
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2020-10-28, 09:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2015
Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I guess I forgot that Clint could be tactless like that.
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2020-10-28, 10:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- The land of corn
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2020-10-29, 12:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2014
Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
I mean, I would be happy to receive insider information about the opinion that someone I fancied held of me and to get an answer without having to commit the faux pas of asking, but the bedside manner in this situation does seem somewhat lacking.
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2020-10-29, 01:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
* my emphasis
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Things that don't kill me make me strong
Things that do kill me leave me dead
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2020-10-30, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XVI: Yes, Butt
Well that was a series of bad decisions. I feel bad for Elliot, this was probably worse than just getting rejected straight away.