At my discretion, of course. But there's a lot of jobs that need doing out in the yellow zone, due to its overall lack of infrastructure compared to green zones.
Perhaps. Ah, but the person who programmed you, or the machine that made you gave you preferences. Those would be the preferences belonging to your creator, so now we have to consider this: are those preferences real? Or are they also an illusion? Does it matter, who it comes from? A machine, a man, a god? Haha.
[He raises his shoulders in a shrug.]
Both, I would think. They feed into each other. The role cannot exist without society needing it. And society requires the information I uncover to help it thrive by catching killers who pose a risk to it.
Well. If even those preferences aren't real, then how are you to say that any of them are?
[ no one: absolutely no one at all: these two: what is a man ]
Conversely, if none of it is real, and all of it is simply a constraint made and enforced by someone, something else... then are you truly so different from anyone else?
Hm. What are you then, if you're an abstraction away from presumably the rest of humanity?
[ mildly. ]
Don't tell me they had mind-mapping technology already, where you're from ... Ah, but if it's faulty and prototypical, then that might explain your amnesia, hm?
The technology was faulty in this case, you'd just be a byproduct. And just because a mindmap is made, doesn't mean it has to be used... though I suppose in this case you really would be a ghost, considering that mindmaps don't just simply gain cognizance.
[ you can use them as the basis to stick into [redacted] but they're not going to become even remotely sentient, let alone sapient, on their own. ]
I wonder. Perhaps you really would relate more to us Dolls after all. Idiosyncrasies and traits that don't make sense even to yourself, yet you're helplessly beholden to them. That's correct, isn't it?
Relate to you? Hm, I think so. I have often felt, when talking to you, that you might understand my situation better than most. [Not that he's a robot, but...] And yes! You got that right. I feel like...a mold has been crafted for me, and I've been shoved into it, regardless whether its a good fit for me or not. I have to function as the form wants me to.
[ a long, thoughtful hum, followed by a moment of silence. then: ]
I'll tell you what someone once told me: "Even Dolls can change."
... It's quite optimistic, isn't it? What does it even really mean? There are things we can change about ourselves, but nothing like that. Short of formatting ourselves, nothing can be done about those intrinsic qualities, whether we like it or not...
What is "change", really? Changing qualities about ourselves, but those changes are still within the frameworks we're programmed with...then is that change at all?
[Is it not change unless one moves past the limitations, or does it still count?]
But yes. We continue, and try, and do our best, we do.
I suppose that question depends on whether or not we're everything our creators intended for us to be at once. They set bounds and parameters for us, but are we ever truly living up to them?
If we're already straining against all the limits placed for us, and there's no room to grow further, perhaps we can't change after all. But if we're reconfiguring ourselves within the constraints of our forms and cages ... Well.
It isn't a static system, at least?
[ but does that count as change enough, in the circumstances that they're in. ]
Its change within the system. A fish in a bowl can move a pebble from one side to another. But it can't change the bowl its in. I suppose that's change in a form, but...I think what we're both getting at that its not quite meaningful change. At least, not to people watching us from the outside. It only means something to us.
If it walks like a person, talks like a person, and thinks like a person, is it one? Haha, but of course, I'm telling this to someone who is made in the facsimile of a human being, who has her own thoughts, but is not a human at all.
[A shake of the head.]
Ahaha. Then I don't know. I think to a certain select group of people, I'm not.
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Date: 2020-07-12 01:46 am (UTC)What do you do for your job, 45?
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Date: 2020-07-12 01:48 am (UTC)[ it's trilled out, light and breezy. ]
At my discretion, of course. But there's a lot of jobs that need doing out in the yellow zone, due to its overall lack of infrastructure compared to green zones.
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Date: 2020-07-12 01:50 am (UTC)[He scratches at his chin.]
And what exactly does the work involve?
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Date: 2020-07-12 03:29 am (UTC)It's various parties. But we do search and rescue, retrieval, infiltration, escort ... that sort of thing.
[ among other things. ]
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Date: 2020-07-12 10:28 pm (UTC)[Then again WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT THE MILITARY]
Here's a question: what's your favorite type of work?
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Date: 2020-07-12 10:38 pm (UTC)[ when you are made to be weapon, ]
Either way, business is business. It's not my place to have an opinion on the kind of work we do, though what jobs we do take are up to me in the end.
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Date: 2020-07-12 10:59 pm (UTC)[Way better than him.]
...Hm. A Tactical Doll...in a novel, you'd probably be called a "robot" or a "droid". I assume you're fully synthetic?
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Date: 2020-07-13 01:49 am (UTC)[ she's just... a special case. ]
Do you mean to ask if I'm partially biological, but simply augmented? Haha. No, you're correct. I'm fully synthetic.
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Date: 2020-07-13 01:56 am (UTC)[A nod.]
How interesting. That robots in some other future have progressed that far...haha, well, I shouldn't be surprised! Technology is moving fast!
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Date: 2020-07-16 11:57 pm (UTC)And what shackles you so, hm? The constraints of society, or the role you're meant to play?
[ novel metaphor, and all. ]
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Date: 2020-07-17 12:04 am (UTC)[He raises his shoulders in a shrug.]
Both, I would think. They feed into each other. The role cannot exist without society needing it. And society requires the information I uncover to help it thrive by catching killers who pose a risk to it.
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Date: 2020-07-17 12:33 am (UTC)[ no one:
absolutely no one at all:
these two: what is a man ]
Conversely, if none of it is real, and all of it is simply a constraint made and enforced by someone, something else... then are you truly so different from anyone else?
[ ah, society. ]
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Date: 2020-07-17 12:41 am (UTC)[And a nod.]
Haha, that's true! I'm just another layer of unreal, if that's the case.
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Date: 2020-07-17 12:57 am (UTC)[ mildly. ]
Don't tell me they had mind-mapping technology already, where you're from ... Ah, but if it's faulty and prototypical, then that might explain your amnesia, hm?
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Date: 2020-07-17 01:02 am (UTC)[How spooky.]
Perhaps! Or maybe it's just me, if that really was that type of scenario.
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Date: 2020-07-17 01:16 am (UTC)[ spooky indeed. ]
Hmm. Do you really think of yourself as so different from other humans, Anaido?
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Date: 2020-07-17 01:25 am (UTC)[He winks.]
Of course I do. Sometimes it feels like a tricky sort of god decided to mess around with my mind as a joke to me and everyone else.
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Date: 2020-07-17 01:39 am (UTC)[ you can use them as the basis to stick into [redacted] but they're not going to become even remotely sentient, let alone sapient, on their own. ]
I wonder. Perhaps you really would relate more to us Dolls after all. Idiosyncrasies and traits that don't make sense even to yourself, yet you're helplessly beholden to them. That's correct, isn't it?
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Date: 2020-07-17 01:52 am (UTC)[hehehe]
Relate to you? Hm, I think so. I have often felt, when talking to you, that you might understand my situation better than most. [Not that he's a robot, but...] And yes! You got that right. I feel like...a mold has been crafted for me, and I've been shoved into it, regardless whether its a good fit for me or not. I have to function as the form wants me to.
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Date: 2020-07-18 04:00 am (UTC)I'll tell you what someone once told me: "Even Dolls can change."
... It's quite optimistic, isn't it? What does it even really mean? There are things we can change about ourselves, but nothing like that. Short of formatting ourselves, nothing can be done about those intrinsic qualities, whether we like it or not...
Yet we persist nonetheless, don't we?
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Date: 2020-07-18 04:12 am (UTC)[Is it not change unless one moves past the limitations, or does it still count?]
But yes. We continue, and try, and do our best, we do.
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Date: 2020-07-18 05:54 am (UTC)If we're already straining against all the limits placed for us, and there's no room to grow further, perhaps we can't change after all. But if we're reconfiguring ourselves within the constraints of our forms and cages ... Well.
It isn't a static system, at least?
[ but does that count as change enough, in the circumstances that they're in. ]
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Date: 2020-07-18 02:21 pm (UTC)[A nod.]
Its change within the system. A fish in a bowl can move a pebble from one side to another. But it can't change the bowl its in. I suppose that's change in a form, but...I think what we're both getting at that its not quite meaningful change. At least, not to people watching us from the outside. It only means something to us.
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Date: 2020-07-19 04:41 pm (UTC)What a troublesome thing.
[ ... ]
Anaido, would you say that you're considered a person?
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Date: 2020-07-19 05:08 pm (UTC)[There's a twinkle in his eye.]
If it walks like a person, talks like a person, and thinks like a person, is it one? Haha, but of course, I'm telling this to someone who is made in the facsimile of a human being, who has her own thoughts, but is not a human at all.
[A shake of the head.]
Ahaha. Then I don't know. I think to a certain select group of people, I'm not.
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