... Mmm. I'm not opposed to explaining about some of the things you saw. Context or otherwise. I'd imagine Earth, circa 2061, is at least a bit different from what you might expect.
[ just maybe not enough in at least a couple ways, considering. ]
Humanoid versus non-humanoid, generally. There's plenty of mechanical automata in use in various sectors, civilian or otherwise, but dolls are a more specific subset meant to emulate the human form for various reasons.
... Not to say that all dolls look the way I do, though. Some of the models in use in the military would make C3P0 look like the pinnacle of human imitation.
The usual. People are more comfortable interacting with automata manning human facing jobs if they have familiar faces.
[ kind of a weird double standard, considering how dolls are, at the end of the day, less than human, but. ]
And a lot of pre-existing equipment is made for the human form. When they needed manpower to keep society running, rather than building many different robots that were individually specialized in form for each task, they figured it was more convenient to make something that has the human shape and give it an adaptive AI instead.
I guess that makes sense. Does it ever get... weird, though? I mean, if they were designed together, do you see any others running around with your same face?
Again, she copied me on purpose. Without any input from me, I should add.
[ 9 and her little case of hero worship... ]
But in general? It might as well be arbitrary. I couldn't say why some of us look the way we do, just that we do. It's the same with any idiosyncrasies that end up in our programming. Though in the case of the civilian retrofits, their designs are just carried over from what they did before.
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Date: 2020-07-05 05:30 am (UTC)[ -ah, hm. yeah, that's a lot. ]
She just keeps coming back up, doesn't she.
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Date: 2020-07-05 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-05 05:52 am (UTC)[ ... ]
Go ahead and ask. This was a pain when it happened in the mansion, and it's still a pain now, but it's not like there's anything we can do about it.
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Date: 2020-07-05 06:00 am (UTC)...I'm not going to ask unless you actually want to talk about it. This is - invasive and messed up enough without that.
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Date: 2020-07-05 06:20 am (UTC)[ just maybe not enough in at least a couple ways, considering. ]
I can always not answer if I want.
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Date: 2020-07-05 11:25 pm (UTC)Is there a different between a doll and a robot...?
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Date: 2020-07-06 12:16 am (UTC)... Not to say that all dolls look the way I do, though. Some of the models in use in the military would make C3P0 look like the pinnacle of human imitation.
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Date: 2020-07-06 12:19 am (UTC)Various reasons, like...?
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Date: 2020-07-06 12:30 am (UTC)[ kind of a weird double standard, considering how dolls are, at the end of the day, less than human, but. ]
And a lot of pre-existing equipment is made for the human form. When they needed manpower to keep society running, rather than building many different robots that were individually specialized in form for each task, they figured it was more convenient to make something that has the human shape and give it an adaptive AI instead.
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Date: 2020-07-06 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-06 02:07 am (UTC)It's normal for Dolls, though. There's no logical reason for us to find it weird.
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Date: 2020-07-06 02:10 am (UTC)[She nods, though, at that answer.]
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Date: 2020-07-06 03:14 am (UTC)[ so, that one, ]
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Date: 2020-07-06 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-06 07:42 am (UTC)[ 9, who looks like this, so the resemblance is fairly clear. ]
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Date: 2020-07-08 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-08 04:30 pm (UTC)[ 9 and her little case of hero worship... ]
But in general? It might as well be arbitrary. I couldn't say why some of us look the way we do, just that we do. It's the same with any idiosyncrasies that end up in our programming. Though in the case of the civilian retrofits, their designs are just carried over from what they did before.