Yes, I think Usual John’s reading has to be what was intended. When I saw it the other day I indeed was puzzled but thought I had a grasp on it — but couldn’t articulate the idea clearly until seeing that comment here.
The legs don’t bother me any more than the usual anthropomorphic cartooning of inanimate objects. The swallowing idea doesn’t make any sense to me, but neither does anything else I can think of for this one.
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The calculator supposes that the smartphone has swallowed a calculator and is demanding that it be coughed up.
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I think Usual John has it.
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Yes, I think Usual John’s reading has to be what was intended. When I saw it the other day I indeed was puzzled but thought I had a grasp on it — but couldn’t articulate the idea clearly until seeing that comment here.
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And I’d say the legs are fine. Somehow they serve to reinforce for us the point that these machines are some kind of conscious being.
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The legs also provide a plausible way for the devices to be standing on end without falling over.
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The legs don’t bother me any more than the usual anthropomorphic cartooning of inanimate objects. The swallowing idea doesn’t make any sense to me, but neither does anything else I can think of for this one.
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