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painted bird posted:idk C3PO can clearly pass the turing test. dunno about R2D2, though and even then it might not be good enough for you you loving bigot
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okay, my bad, that was dumb. R2D2 can probably pass the turing test but he'd need an interpreter.
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also this thread is tiresome as gently caress and i don't know why i bother posting
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this thread is chill. discussions about robotic gender are chill. everyone chill
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Amethyst posted:man gently caress off with your culture wars poo poo, you're jsut forcing it now no one's forcing these raised-by-the-internet kids to post their moronic I WONDER IF MY VACUUM CLEANER IS A LAYDEE thoughts
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painted bird posted:also this thread is tiresome as gently caress and i don't know why i bother posting you shouldn't post here
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Internaut! posted:no one's forcing these raised-by-the-internet kids to post their moronic I WONDER IF MY VACUUM CLEANER IS A LAYDEE thoughts posting about gender doesn't automatically need to be a big political argument, you dweeb
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it's potentially interesting to explore and discuss the way that we anthropomorphize inanimate things and the role that gender plays in that but JESUS CHRIST yospos is clearly incapable of fulfilling that potential
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Nov 17, 2015 03:10
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lol w/e, i'm out. you guys can keep circlejerking over your own ~edge~ or whatever
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painted bird posted:also this thread is tiresome as gently caress and i don't know why i bother posting please stop then
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Amethyst posted:posting about gender doesn't automatically need to be a big political argument, you dweeb complain to whoever's making big political arguments then, it's not me as my 3 posts in 4 pages show
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Nov 17, 2015 03:15
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 the Turing test was originally a gender determination test which Turing adapted to a computer vs not computer test
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Internaut! posted:no one's forcing these raised-by-the-internet kids to post their moronic I WONDER IF MY VACUUM CLEANER IS A LAYDEE thoughts oh man i hope she is, otherwise i just got my...never mind
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SmokaDustbowl posted:really giving my scrollwheel a workout the past couple pages
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SmokaDustbowl posted:really giving my scrollwheel a workout the past couple pages same 
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painted bird posted:lol w/e, i'm out. you guys can keep circlejerking over your own ~edge~ or whatever The Great Droid Gender Meltdown of November 2015
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so guys, just got back from a trip, what did i miss? you guys excited for all the new scifi shows on syfy this month? what about that one where the nazis and japan take over america. how about jessica jones I just read the next 'the expanse' novella. Kinda cool, goes in to the poo poo life of living on earth on basic.
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how do the neuromancer books hold up? like i get that they're classics and i should read them, but are they still good in their own right or is it just going to look silly Sham bam bamina! posted:the only argument for this would also apply to the chinamen or the savages of darkest africa until they learn the white man's tongue this reminds me of a thing i read about during my Internet Skeptic days where people would claim they could help people with severe learning disabilities communicate by moving their hand around a board or whatever and waiting for them to 'signal' the right letter. turns out that this has all the problems you think it does. vOv fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Nov 17, 2015 06:55
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the sprawl trilogy (neuromancer etc) all hold up okay as long as you can manage the obvious reverse anachronisms (like payphones). i re-read neuromancer and count zero this year and they're both still really good, i started mona lisa overdrive and it was also still good but i had a headcrash and never went back to it
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Nov 17, 2015 07:14
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neuromancer is fantastic and one of the few scis fi that actually capture the atmosphere of the milieu in the sheer tone of the writing itself (along with dune and uhhh give me a minute here)
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i guess there are also a lot of awful books that capture the shittiness of one in the other too if you want to go that route
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Sham bam bamina! posted:i guess there are also a lot of awful books that capture the shittiness of one in the other too if you want to go that route 
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Nov 17, 2015 07:21
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burning chrome still holds up in a lot of ways great short collection e: including jonny mnemonic which has almost as little to do with the movie as lawnmower man had to do with its
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Nov 17, 2015 07:22
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Sham bam bamina! posted:neuromancer is fantastic and one of the few scis fi that actually capture the atmosphere of the milieu in the sheer tone of the writing itself (along with dune and uhhh give me a minute here) 1984?
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oh good call
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Nov 17, 2015 07:30
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and the short story 'hinterlands' in burning chrome could have been the inspiration for event horizon it was super spoopy
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btw it's really irritating when people in this thread ask if something old "holds up" as if good books or movies have some kind of expiration date, it's such an awful way of thinking about things "well, i guess childhood's end was good for the time, but of course this is 2015"
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"i mean come on, they didn't even have darpanet back then, so you get a future without computer networking! it's just silly!"
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Sham bam bamina! posted:btw it's really irritating when people in this thread ask if something old "holds up" as if good books or movies have some kind of expiration date, it's such an awful way of thinking about things When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. -the bible clearly we all have a problem
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syscall girl posted:and the short story 'hinterlands' in burning chrome could have been the inspiration for event horizon hinterlands is one of my favourite short stories ever
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The Jaunt is also really spoopy.
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Hogge Wild posted:The Jaunt is also really spoopy. it is kind of existential let it not inspire teleportation chat because honestly we don't even know what we are but would not like to find out that way cms: watching the happening rifftrax
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we ask if something "still holds up" not because of how sf gets more inaccurate over time but because we tend to read a lot of sf as teenagers and in later years we realize that most of it was utter garbage the question is really "is this still good when read as an adult who has been exposed to things other than genre fiction"
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