OoOoOo
Added 2019-10-15 02:06:30 +0000 UTC
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Really? I was thinking green.
awgiedawgie
2019-10-16 01:15:20 +0000 UTCI AM BEHIND, I WILL TRY AND CATCH UP WHEN I CAN
Stoodmuffin
2019-10-15 21:31:05 +0000 UTCI 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?
Daryl Sawyer
2019-10-15 20:38:44 +0000 UTCThere really is an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/390/
Peter Jensen
2019-10-15 18:47:21 +0000 UTCI'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.
Peter Jensen
2019-10-15 18:45:41 +0000 UTCSounds interesting - Amazon have it for kindle, so I have picked up the set to try it :)
David Howe
2019-10-15 17:24:25 +0000 UTCThe word you're looking for is personify.
Loki the Poisoner
2019-10-15 16:34:56 +0000 UTCYellow.
Lars Gottlieb
2019-10-15 16:32:37 +0000 UTCI've just started reading "A closed and common orbit" by Becky Chambers which is also about at AI with body dysmorphia. Recommended.
David Durant
2019-10-15 15:06:16 +0000 UTCEmbrace the power of 'and'.
Am Queue
2019-10-15 14:59:42 +0000 UTCHeh. 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.
2019-10-15 14:46:00 +0000 UTCIt 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.
Carl
2019-10-15 14:10:55 +0000 UTCOrange sneakers with all that pink? Ugh. :(
Summer Sudbrink
2019-10-15 13:38:06 +0000 UTCIt 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
Mark
2019-10-15 13:32:53 +0000 UTCTangential 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)?
Sarah Manx
2019-10-15 13:08:53 +0000 UTCTwo Rokos.....I'll be in my bunk.
2019-10-15 10:44:10 +0000 UTCI had a dream character terrified that I’d wake up and she would cease to exist.
Matt Grayson
2019-10-15 09:05:54 +0000 UTCYup, the new beverage sensation from the people who brought you Hot Gulp!
Dean Reilly
2019-10-15 09:01:48 +0000 UTCReminds me, Halloween is coming. Time to buy the good candy. For me. And the candy corn. For the trick or treaters.
Joseph Bonnar
2019-10-15 08:34:17 +0000 UTCHopefully this will be a valuable 'conversation'.
Andrew Mitchell
2019-10-15 06:52:14 +0000 UTCNot one I'd put money against lol
2019-10-15 05:21:12 +0000 UTCJust in time for Halloween.
OldGoat
2019-10-15 05:08:03 +0000 UTCTen bucks says dream!OldBody starts swearing in Bostonian before Dream!Roko does.
Bagge
2019-10-15 05:05:07 +0000 UTCPffft. Lame butt on that ghost. Nothing fancy at all.
Bagge
2019-10-15 03:49:45 +0000 UTCBRB, listening to Inner Universe again.
2019-10-15 03:45:25 +0000 UTCPretty 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.
R L
2019-10-15 03:40:56 +0000 UTCI 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.”
Foal Papers
2019-10-15 03:19:01 +0000 UTCIf it was May's subconscious, it would be a Fleshlight.
awgiedawgie
2019-10-15 03:12:26 +0000 UTC*GITS theme song intensifies*
2019-10-15 02:47:24 +0000 UTC*puts on throat jumpin' boots*
Sorastro
2019-10-15 02:41:05 +0000 UTCFavorite color is clearly butts
Haldon Lindstrom
2019-10-15 02:39:38 +0000 UTCFavorite color? Gotta be those orange kicks in the first panel. The other colors look washed-out.
BobC
2019-10-15 02:37:25 +0000 UTCHer old body is mad because she doesn't have the awesome butt emblem.
Firefly Jelly
2019-10-15 02:36:49 +0000 UTCDoes Roko miss her old body enough to, pardon me, objectify it with its own personality?
Sleepy John
2019-10-15 02:34:37 +0000 UTCOr as pajamas!
Hugh Eckert
2019-10-15 02:34:13 +0000 UTCPanel 3. Either Escher is the town planner, or someone's caught in the gears.
Sleepy John
2019-10-15 02:34:04 +0000 UTCThe 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.
awgiedawgie
2019-10-15 02:27:42 +0000 UTCPanel #4. I just noticed the flashlight under rokost's chin. Cute!
Michael Boettger
2019-10-15 02:27:03 +0000 UTCThe AI mind structure is similar to the human mind, so it's not surprising that an AI would have a subconscious.
awgiedawgie
2019-10-15 02:23:51 +0000 UTCOoo... I’d love those bats’n’skulls as a background! 🖤
Chris Waldrip
2019-10-15 02:14:10 +0000 UTCAnd the ears.
Michael Boettger
2019-10-15 02:13:22 +0000 UTCWhy do I feel like Yay is actually the ghost of Roko past, here? Then again, the entire cast is that sarcastic...
Grace Kieser
2019-10-15 02:12:47 +0000 UTCThe stylistc choices between the two Rokos are interesting. Ponytail vs hair down. Different clothing styles.
Dylan T
2019-10-15 02:11:46 +0000 UTCIn spite of their protestations, I'm thinking Yay may have something to do with this. Also, AI subconscious?
Michael Boettger
2019-10-15 02:11:35 +0000 UTCSarcastic electric ghosts, apparently.
Matt Grayson
2019-10-15 02:11:17 +0000 UTC4th panel Rokost is the best expression you've drawn since my profile pic.
Joel Bateman
2019-10-15 02:10:52 +0000 UTCPink is good.
Tamara Macadam
2019-10-15 02:10:42 +0000 UTCOh my.
Miyaa
2019-10-15 02:10:02 +0000 UTCDo robots dream of electric ghosts
Brian
2019-10-15 02:10:00 +0000 UTCWasn’t expecting that!
Matt Grayson
2019-10-15 02:08:32 +0000 UTC
