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.
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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.