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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | The comic | + | 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 were books, TV or smart phones), hence the title. |
− | + | In the first panel, a [[Cueball]]-like guy complains that books are having this effect, in the second panel another Cueball complains about newspapers, then a third Cueball complains about magazines, a fourth Cueball complains about television, a fifth Cueball compains about portable music players, and in the last panel a sixth Cueball complains about smart-phones. | |
− | + | The comic is 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 joke is 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 the Cueballs, continue to complain about this there is just one thing to say: "Let it go, dude!" |
− | + | Alternatively, the joke could merely be that people have been ignoring a seemingly unaging Cueball for almost 200 years and he just could not take a hint... | |
− | According to the title text, the first AI that did talk its way out of its box turned out to be a {{w|Friendly artificial intelligence|friendly AI}} that was fond of others | + | 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! |
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+ | According to the title text, then the first AI that did talk its way out of its 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'' (quantum AI mind vastly more powerful than human mind) are spending all of their time playing in their own {{w|multiverse}} simulators to even notice that, in the real world, they are locked up in a box. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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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 through 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. | ||
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[[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]] |