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🕑 Added 2019-10-15 02:06:30 +0000 UTC

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awgiedawgie

Really? I was thinking green.

Stoodmuffin

I AM BEHIND, I WILL TRY AND CATCH UP WHEN I CAN

Daryl Sawyer

I 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?

Peter Jensen

There really is an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/390/

Peter Jensen

I'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.

David Howe

Sounds interesting - Amazon have it for kindle, so I have picked up the set to try it :)

Loki the Poisoner

The word you're looking for is personify.

Lars Gottlieb

Yellow.

David Durant

I've just started reading "A closed and common orbit" by Becky Chambers which is also about at AI with body dysmorphia. Recommended.

Am Queue

Embrace the power of 'and'.

Heh. 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.

Carl

It 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.

Summer Sudbrink

Orange sneakers with all that pink? Ugh. :(

Mark

It 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

Sarah Manx

Tangential 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)?

Two Rokos.....I'll be in my bunk.

Matt Grayson

I had a dream character terrified that I’d wake up and she would cease to exist.

Dean Reilly

Yup, the new beverage sensation from the people who brought you Hot Gulp!

Joseph Bonnar

Reminds me, Halloween is coming. Time to buy the good candy. For me. And the candy corn. For the trick or treaters.

Andrew Mitchell

Hopefully this will be a valuable 'conversation'.

Not one I'd put money against lol

OldGoat

Just in time for Halloween.

Bagge

Ten bucks says dream!OldBody starts swearing in Bostonian before Dream!Roko does.

Bagge

Pffft. Lame butt on that ghost. Nothing fancy at all.

BRB, listening to Inner Universe again.

R L

Pretty 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.

Foal Papers

I 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.”

awgiedawgie

If it was May's subconscious, it would be a Fleshlight.

*GITS theme song intensifies*

Sorastro

*puts on throat jumpin' boots*

Haldon Lindstrom

Favorite color is clearly butts

BobC

Favorite color? Gotta be those orange kicks in the first panel. The other colors look washed-out.

Firefly Jelly

Her old body is mad because she doesn't have the awesome butt emblem.

Sleepy John

Does Roko miss her old body enough to, pardon me, objectify it with its own personality?

Hugh Eckert

Or as pajamas!

Sleepy John

Panel 3. Either Escher is the town planner, or someone's caught in the gears.

awgiedawgie

The 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.