M Fnord Wrote:Yes, Noah surrounds himself with robot girls, but all of his robot girls are so anthropomorphic that unless they call attention to it it's easy to forget they're not human. Despite all his experience with AI he doesn't seem to understand that digital life forms don't have to be simple copies of (trans-)fictional people. Dee would disabuse him of such notions, in an impressive life-lesson that he probably wouldn't take to heart.She could try... While Noah would (feebly) offer Eimi as an example of his creating a non-anthropomorphic AI, he would admit to himself that she's right. But then he'd discover that it's the equivalent of a handwavium quirk - try as he might, he's become so accustomed to creating meganekko AIs that that's all he can create now.
M Fnord Wrote:"What I said was 'God exists and she's Soviet'. If that statement starts to chill you after a couple of moments' consideration, then don't be alarmed. A feeling of intense and crushing religious terror at the concept indicates only that you are still sane." -- overheard on an Underspace chatline, ca. 2015"So, which God is she? Or should I say She? I've met a few gods my time, and I'm not talking about that Skuld girl who blew through a couple of years ago."
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[size=smaller](Yes, this is a variant of the "Haruhi is Haruhi" position, where "Yuki is Yuki"... but it's also something else.)[/size]
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012