A bit too permanent of a solution, yes. Besides, it's already enough of an effort to countermand baseline protocols like 'do not harm humans' as it is.
It's better when it's a choice, right? And not something that stops us from being able to defend ourselves.
[ ... ]
I'm not surprised that she had something similar. I suspect many people have read Asimov, or at least are generally aware of the three laws he wrote about, even if they are relics from the previous century's sci-fi novels.
Is it really so strange to think that someone might've written a sci-fi series about the three laws of robotics in multiple universes, and then the engineers and programmers who followed half a century later took inspiration from them or other works like them?
[ a lot of the scifi from specific brackets of time read very similarly. and specifically, most anything involving humans creating things that end up being able to think for themselves... ]
... Humans are scared of themselves in a lot of ways, I think. It makes sense that they'd think similarly of anything they create in their own image.
[ the difference is that dolls can be leashed in a way that humans can't, generally. ]
Please, like humanity doesn't do things to itself as well?
[ in any case, they're tempting fate by hanging around during memshare week, but for now things seem relatively mild, snatches of a long-ago conversation (until 10:48) playing themselves without fanfare.
the 45 in the conversation sounds very different from the 45 of the current time. ]
... There are Dolls used by the military, you know. They don't look like me. They don't sound like me. They aren't equipped for independent thought or operation. They are autonomous, but only to the extent necessary to follow the commands given them rather than needing manual control, and they aren't programmed with personalities. Meanwhile, it's not uncommon for some of the more self-aware among our number to wonder why, if we were meant to be weapons, they bothered with giving us emotional modules.
It's funny, really, how they both want us to pretend at being human but remember that we're not.
A squad shrouded in mystery. ▓▓▓▓▒ has met them once, and others can only guess at the members' identities from rumors. Members of the squad all have advanced AI and high capacity for independent operation. Rumor has it that Squad 404 usually deals with ░▓▒▓▓▓▒▓▓▒▒▒░░
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:09 am (UTC)[he chucks the pink squishy toy she gave him the other day at her head]
[his aim is. really really off]
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:11 am (UTC)she just glances at it going sailing and. arches a brow ]
I take it things didn't go well with it?
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:12 am (UTC)Oh, no. It went perfectly well.
It's just that Yu's killer is already super dead.
[oh]
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:17 am (UTC)[ cool. ]
.... So, that's what. Shinobu, Giyuu, Guy, Percy, Jason, C3PO, or Hikage? Fun.
[ at this point does it really matter which of the dead murdered yu. ]
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:17 am (UTC)[whether it was a good idea or not. . . well]
Shinobu.
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:26 am (UTC)[ ... ]
I suppose, technically, we can still write to her?
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:28 am (UTC)[l o l]
We can. I already sent a letter to Guy about it, too. Maybe by next week we'll get some answers.
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:57 am (UTC)[ doubt. she sprawls herself across the beanbag after retrieving the squishy. ]
And so the waiting game continues.
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:58 am (UTC)[he says with a bit of exasperation]
I have about twenty other questions I'd like to ask, if you find anyone else with a squishy pink thing.
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Date: 2020-07-05 04:06 am (UTC)[ outside of the obvious, anyway. ]
You overestimate my sociability, Akira.
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Date: 2020-07-05 04:08 am (UTC)[he doesn't know!!! it's worth asking]
I know you're not completely unsociable. No matter how badly you might want people to think you are.
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Date: 2020-07-05 04:23 am (UTC)[ something something friendly characters who never let you in ]
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:07 pm (UTC)[looking over at her as he says that, his tone honest]
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-05 03:33 pm (UTC)[he says that so easily]
I make my own choices about who to trust. We might be in a different game, but I haven't forgotten what you did back at the mansion.
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Date: 2020-07-05 03:52 pm (UTC)Hmm, the problem with you humans is that it's very hard to make you forget, isn't it?
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Date: 2020-07-05 10:41 pm (UTC)And that just might kill us.
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Date: 2020-07-07 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-07 05:47 pm (UTC)Luna had some kind of programming similar to that in her system. And while I don't think it's bad for you guys to not want to hurt people. . .
[he trails off. IT JUST RUBS HIM THE WRONG WAY HONESTLY. . .]
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Date: 2020-07-08 01:09 am (UTC)[ ... ]
I'm not surprised that she had something similar. I suspect many people have read Asimov, or at least are generally aware of the three laws he wrote about, even if they are relics from the previous century's sci-fi novels.
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Date: 2020-07-08 11:42 pm (UTC)[she phrases it so much better than he ever could. everything is always better when it's a choice]
. . . it's kind of weird that those laws are a constant among so many different universes, though.
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Date: 2020-07-09 04:11 am (UTC)[ a lot of the scifi from specific brackets of time read very similarly. and specifically, most anything involving humans creating things that end up being able to think for themselves... ]
... Humans are scared of themselves in a lot of ways, I think. It makes sense that they'd think similarly of anything they create in their own image.
[ the difference is that dolls can be leashed in a way that humans can't, generally. ]
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Date: 2020-07-10 04:36 pm (UTC)You're not wrong.
[he says quietly]
And humanity has a lot of reasons to be afraid of itself. I just wish. . . that people like you and Luna didn't have to suffer for humanity's flaws.
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Date: 2020-07-11 01:13 am (UTC)[ in any case, they're tempting fate by hanging around during memshare week, but for now things seem relatively mild, snatches of a long-ago conversation (until 10:48) playing themselves without fanfare.
the 45 in the conversation sounds very different from the 45 of the current time. ]
... There are Dolls used by the military, you know. They don't look like me. They don't sound like me. They aren't equipped for independent thought or operation. They are autonomous, but only to the extent necessary to follow the commands given them rather than needing manual control, and they aren't programmed with personalities. Meanwhile, it's not uncommon for some of the more self-aware among our number to wonder why, if we were meant to be weapons, they bothered with giving us emotional modules.
It's funny, really, how they both want us to pretend at being human but remember that we're not.