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Whatever It Takes

🕑 Added 2019-07-01 01:16:14 +0000 UTC

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Kerin Schiesser

Well, BOTWING might be appropriate - and point out that an AI has donated a significant amount of money to helping repair meatspace injuries. Seems also only appropriate that they dedicate a portion of the wing to helping repair android bodies for destitute AIs in need...

Bagge

Roko has a filthy mouth

great, but she still said something. its a voice box. did she say it phonetically or not is what I'm asking.

Joe

aren't there any touch typists left in the world?? those are the keys where your fingers rest. it means the coder convulsed/fell asleep/stroked out/was surprised while touching the keyboard. it's the outward manifestation of shock to a programmer; an involuntary exclamation, translated into AI.

Joe

yup. a djinn. shiny.

Derrik Pates

Well, I mean, the only audience here is Spookybot, so that may not be the most reliable indicator...

awgiedawgie

Whatever it is, it's not as bad as "QWERTY". https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1200

Evgeniy Semyonov

The most interesting part of their relationship is a BIG difference in processing power and speed of thought process. This is probably even more "alien" relations than between ordinary AI and human. Very interesting to see how and where it goes.

Derrik Pates

So how bad an AI swear is "AHSKFJDF"?

Aquaholic

Let’s hope Roko doesn’t do a silly here now.

so how should we pronounce what Roko said in the last panel? lol. if a human had that i'd assume stuttering and whatnot but she could literally be going "A-H-S.." from a stack overflow error

Matt Grayson

From their point of view, we’re pets. They may (pun intended) regard our normal interrelationships as dogs sniffing each other’s butts. This is them scratching Roko behind the ears “Who’s a good dog? YOU are! Yes.” On the other hand, first rule of superhuman intelligences: we have no fucking clue.

Sleepy John

“I meant, follow me on Facebook!”

Jenna

I hope we get to see Spookyboo getting a hug for this.

Sleepy John

Spookyboo must be very, very lonely, I remember Ursula LeGuin's story, Nine Lives, about a nine-member clone that was crap at relating to normal people because it had never had to.

Sleepy John

"Sell all you have, and give it to the poor, and follow me. Ahskjdf,"

gatherer818

Pint-size explained once that AI swears are home row key smashes.

Dean Reilly

The Spookybot Centre for Extremely Dubious Pediatric Medicine.

Holly Nelson

Sedmon 7.0?

Andrew

Panel 5 Roko is just PERFECT.

Thomas Boys

Point of evidence 2: Spookybot appeared out of nowhere in the first strip and they did promise Roko they would stop doing that. Although...they could have spotted Roko and just sidled up to her.

Thomas Boys

Wait a second. Something's not right. This is the third strip with this odd red-pink filter to it and it only started happening after spookybot showed up. I call shenanigans and claim this is some kind of ruse.

Ian Wolfe

Just tell the hospital to name it the Legion of Doom Wing. The kids'll love it.

Ian Wolfe

SpookyBot is far to in love with themselves to fall for someone else. Fortunately for everyone else.

Jackie Meyer

Please give spooky a crush!

The Spookybot thread reminds me of the film Swordfish. They can do anything, anywhere, anytime, with what feels like unlimited resources.

Nulgar

I'm afraid to ask where to stick that paper clip.

Brent Catherman

True, but they still found it amusing.

James Cooper

I believe we have poor Roko going to go BSoD any moment. Does she have a paper clip to reboot? Lol

Dahlia Rose Israel

YES, I have been saying that all week!

awgiedawgie

You're assuming they ever knew.

Verteiron

They're trying so hard but they've really forgetten how to interact on our level.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

I mean honestly, though, this is exactly what I'd do with a significant amount of money (after lights on and dog feeding money, of course)

awgiedawgie

They did, and I still don't follow the logic, since it was Spookybot who immediately did what Roko told them to.

Mitchell Sealy

They're a supreme intelligence divided between many bodies. They could probably make money doing anything from architecture beyond human comprehension to washing dishes at 17 restaurants at once. That being said it was definitely some form of fraud.

awgiedawgie

It's sunset.

Mitchell Sealy

I think this is the first time we've learned that they don't have a name. Up until now we've thought we just didn't know their name.

Brooks Moses

I cannot imagine an AI that powerful not knowing exactly what they are doing here, though.

Somber Pony

Right. Here is what Roko should have asked... "Where did you get that money in the first place?"

Oh God I remembered that smile before I even clicked the link...

BeatButton

Oh wow I didn't know Roko was a bottom I bet someone already made this joke but I ain't scrolling up to see

Olivier Laroche

Deus ex Machina looking for friendship

Michael Lazare

Money can't buy me love

Nobilis Reed (personal)

I love how robots use text-based expressions of astonishment. "AHSKFJDF" indeed! --N

The Shadow's Lair

I feel such a connect with Spooky in an odd way.

BobC

I'm a bit of a social recluse (I show up, but have trouble interacting), and once in a while I have someone with a powerful personality lean-in and insist on becoming my friend, and that I become theirs. This is always disconcerting, but I've long since chosen to trust their perspective over my admittedly limited one. And damn, if they aren't nearly always right, at least for a while. Multiple times I have been, without my own choosing, precisely what someone needed *right then*. And, in odd symmetry, they for me. It's that second part that baffles me: How can others possibly know what can or will work for me? Yet it keeps happening, about once a year or so. At some point, we simply have to lean-in too, and trust, and hope.

awgiedawgie

Such language, Roko! For shame!

awgiedawgie

Looks like mouth. As in a puff of exasperation.

cookiecryptid

I love this so much, spooky bot is (are?) so cute learning to make friends

Valraven

Apparently Roko is a bottom.

Alcaria Swain

I love Spookybot so hard

Matt Grayson

The donations are traced back to Hanners’ Mom.

Peter Jensen

FRIEEEEEEENNNNNDS? https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1585

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

No, no, it's spelt "Picabo" but it's pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove"

Spookybot + dogs fanart next month on the patreon poll?

Erin Hartshorn

Ha! I love being so gloriously wrong! I was sure Spookybot had done something else to help.

Thisguy

For someone who wants to keep a low profile, that wasn’t really a low profile thing to do. Depends on how traceable the transaction was I suppose. I assume that it is completely untraceable. And if it was, it would lead exactly to a person of Spookybot’s choosing.

Drakoo Dreamer

I would take my kid to spookybot general hospital

Thisguy

The last time Roko asked Spookybot for something for herself, they refused.

Jason Rock

Spookybot Wing vs Gundam Wing. Fight!

Andrew Mitchell

Fuck, I <u><b>LOOOOOVE</b></u> Spookybot's dialog here and Roko's response in the final panel. Priceless!!!

Miyaa

This reminds me of the time the famous snowboarding rider Peekaboo Street had an ICU ward named after her. I’ll leave the name for you to figure out.

Mordaeus

"Spooky Wing" is a little too ominous, too

It never occurred to Roko to ask for anything for herself.

Jared Cyr

The BLorg...

I'm pretty sure that for Spookybot playing the stock market is like shooting marbles with three-year-olds, so this says more about their impulsiveness than their affection for Roko, but it is still quite the gesture.

Isaac Rivers

I feel like Roko will call them something backhanded that they end up loving, so my money is on her.

Matt Grayson

Would YOU want a friend who could make any offhand comment instant reality? At least Space Station won’t turn another country into a glass plain on a whim.

Adam Friedlander

(Also, I'm amusing myself by thinking of Culture Mind-style names for Spookybot, but I don't want to annoy Jeph with something that might be too close to fanfic/backseat driving.)

Olivia Waters

Spooky Bot got Roko to verbally keysmash? :o

Michael Boettger

Faye and Emily have interacted with them. Melon and Pintsize have probably heard the AI version of urban legends of them, and might be terrified of them. Crushbot might not be able to make a properly descriptive name. How about Hanners? The Ellicot-station wing might be nice.

ysth

Is that a neck venting or a mouth venting?

"The Spooky Bot Wing of the Children's Hospital". When I was a kid, I would have refused to go anywhere else.

Adam Friedlander

The faces in the last panel are incredible.

Matt Grayson

Spooky! NO! Bad superintelligence! Bad!

Andrea Andrew

I think Spookybot wants to be more than friends with Roko. 😋😏😘

does....spookybot have an external dramatic lighting system?

Samantha Yeaman

Right? She's the best kind of chaotic neutral.

Why's Roko so steamed about it?

Joseph Bonnar

"Pity we don't have a name." Jeph, suggestion for a voting challenge: What character, looking at Spookybot, gives them their name. Faye? Pintsize? Emily? Melon? Crushbot? :)