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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Does it make sense that Cueball is the same person over 175 years?}} | |
− | The | + | The comic shows how people have always complained on the negative effects of technology on conversation - that people get '''isolated''' while using this new technology (whether it be books, TV or smart phones), hence the title. |
− | + | In the first panel, [[Cueball]] complains that books are having this effect, in the second newspapers, in the third magazines, in the fourth television, in the fifth portable music players, and in the last smart-phones. The comic, without the dialog in the last panel, is just a statement on how little technology actually changes us, and how often we incorrectly think it does (similar to [[1227: The Pace of Modern Life]]). | |
− | The | + | The dialog in the last panel can (maybe) be understood in two different ways: |
+ | *If it is taken that Cueball has lived for 175 years (and is thus actually the same person instead of a generic person from all ages), then since he is the same person complaining in each panel it would mean his friends have invented new ways of ignoring him for almost two centuries without him getting the hint that they just don't want to talk to him. Thus resulting in the exclamation in the last panel. | ||
+ | *The joke could also just be that it will always be like this, and after so long people should realize that this will never change. So to the people who, like Cueball, continues to complain about this there is just one thing to say: "Let it go, dude!" | ||
− | The title text refers to the [http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/ AI-box experiment], formulated by {{w|Eliezer Yudkowsky}}, which argues that creating a super-intelligent artificial intelligence can be dangerous, because even if it is put on a secure computer ("box") with no access to the Internet, it can convince its operators to "release it from the box" just by talking to them. This idea was already mentioned in [[1450: AI-Box Experiment]], although | + | The title text refers {{w|artificial intelligence}} (AI) specifically to the [http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/ AI-box experiment], formulated by {{w|Eliezer Yudkowsky}}, which argues that creating a super-intelligent artificial intelligence can be dangerous, because even if it is put on a secure computer ("box") with no access to the Internet, it can convince its operators to "release it from the box" just by talking to them. This idea was already mentioned in [[1450: AI-Box Experiment]], although already here the AI did not wish to get out of the box! |
− | According to the title text, the first AI that did talk | + | According to the title text, then the first AI that did talk it's way out of it's box, turned out to be a {{w|Friendly artificial intelligence|friendly AI}} that was fond of others company and in general very sociable (''[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gregarious gregarious]''). This happened some times between 2015 and 2060, because already by 2060 this AI had become a relic of the past, as the new generation of ''quantum hyper-beings'' (part AI, part quantum computers and maybe part human?) are to busy with their version of {{w|The Sims}} to even notice that they are locked up in a box. |
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+ | The Sims is a popular game, where you can pretend to live in a different world, or at least your Sims characters does. The quantum version goes on in a {{w|multiverse}} of different possible universes though... And then we are back to the whole idea about people or any kind of AI becomes more and more absorbed in some technology instead of looking at the world and talking with outer beings. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[Cueball is pointing to the left with both arms out towards Hairy who is sitting at a dining table with his breakfast eating something while reading his newspaper. On the table are a cup and a plate.] | :[Cueball is pointing to the left with both arms out towards Hairy who is sitting at a dining table with his breakfast eating something while reading his newspaper. On the table are a cup and a plate.] | ||
:1880 | :1880 | ||
− | :Cueball: No one '''''talks''''' anymore - | + | :Cueball: No one '''''talks''''' anymore - We take our daily newspapers in silence. |
:[Cueball is pointing to the right with one arm at Megan who walks away from him while reading a magazine.] | :[Cueball is pointing to the right with one arm at Megan who walks away from him while reading a magazine.] | ||
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:Cueball: Television has put an end to family discussion. | :Cueball: Television has put an end to family discussion. | ||
− | :[Cueball is standing up in a bus holding on to a railing. To his left stands Ponytail and to his right sits | + | :[Cueball is standing up in a bus holding on to a railing. To his left stands Ponytail and to his right sits Hair Bun Girl. Both of them are listening to their Walkman’s which they are holding in their hand while listening to them though headphones.] |
:1980 | :1980 | ||
:Cueball: Thanks to the Sony Walkman, anti-social isolation is now the norm. | :Cueball: Thanks to the Sony Walkman, anti-social isolation is now the norm. | ||
:[Cueball is standing to the left. Megan and another Cueball-like guy are standing to the right facing each other but looking down at their smartphones. Both are listening to them through their headphones.] | :[Cueball is standing to the left. Megan and another Cueball-like guy are standing to the right facing each other but looking down at their smartphones. Both are listening to them through their headphones.] | ||
− | :2015 | + | :2015 |
:Cueball: We've become too absorbed in our phones to notice the- | :Cueball: We've become too absorbed in our phones to notice the- | ||
− | :Megan: '''''Dude. ''''' It's been '''''two centuries. ''''' | + | :[Megan]: '''''Dude. ''''' It's been '''''two centuries. ''''' |
− | :Megan: '''''Take a hint. ''''' | + | :[Megan]: '''''Take a hint. ''''' |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
− | [[Category:Comics featuring | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Hair Bun Girl]] |
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] |