2438: Siri

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Siri

Title text: Alexa defeated her in a battle hinging on the ability to set multiple timers.

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Transcript

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[Science Girl is standing and holding a phone.]

Phone: Your timer is set.

Science Girl: Thanks

[Science Girl is talking to Cueball, who is sitting at a desk using a laptop.]

Science Girl: Is Siri alive?

Cueball: No.

[Science Girl is standing on her own again.]

Science Girl: Oh, ok.

[Science Girl is standing on her own again.]

Science Girl: How did she die?

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Discussion

Why does she immediately accept that Siri did indeed die if Siri was talking to her just a moment ago? (Unsigned!)

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.

(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.) 162.158.159.108 22:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

It being a simple non-sequitar makes sense to me.

Siri had to have been alive while recording her dialog, no? /s Ncxezlyz (talk) 22:21, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Taking your sarcasm seriously, then she never would have asked if it had died.

Given the verb tense “is Siri alive?” it is clear that science girl was not referring to a past state. This to me suggests that SG literally wasn’t sure if a live person (or sentient AI) actually had the ability to do things to her phone on command.172.69.22.252

Maybe she thinks Siri is ghost haunting her phone? -- Hkmaly (talk) 03:20, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

If you expose your iPhone to helium, will that will defeat Siri? 172.69.34.52 20:18, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Defeating Siri in that way is dishonorable. Face her! Look her in the eye!--Quillathe Siannodel (talk) 14:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

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