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: 2020-07-10 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.