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: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 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.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.108|162.158.159.108]] 22:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
 
:(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)
::It being a simple non-sequitar makes sense to me.
 
  
 
: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)
 
: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)
 
::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.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.252|172.69.22.252]]
 
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.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.252|172.69.22.252]]

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