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

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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!)

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

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)