https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Ncxezlyzexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-05-23T23:42:19ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2438:_Siri&diff=208393Talk:2438: Siri2021-03-17T22:21:02Z<p>Ncxezlyz: </p>
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Why does she immediately accept that Siri did indeed die if Siri was talking to her just a moment ago? (Unsigned!)<br />
:It happened just now? I really want to say something like dispassionate non-empathy (it reads as if she has a fact-obsessed but emotion-sparse mentality). No idea why she thought to enquire of Siri's (latest) life-status without reason. Perhaps the app closed (unseen to us) and she arrived at the 'logical' question to try to determine why (from a Cueball who we can see has clearly not seen the event itsrlf). It all seems to point towards SG 'failing' various aspects of the Sally-Anne Test/Social Cognition/Theory Of Mind, with sufficiently advanced reasoning that is nonetheless grossly misapplied.<br />
:(It's funny, for those who perpetually ask, for the Cognitive Dissonance and Non-Sequiturs of the situation. In a RL example, we probably should be worried that either there's something very wrong with SG or else we're missing a lot of background facts ourselves. But I think we can still enjoy this sketch without the unease we might experience otherwise.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.108|162.158.159.108]] 22:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)<br />
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:Siri had to have been alive while recording her dialog, no? /s [[User:Ncxezlyz|Ncxezlyz]] ([[User talk:Ncxezlyz|talk]]) 22:21, 17 March 2021 (UTC)</div>Ncxezlyz