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At your convenience. I will understand if the way is impassable, however. I found myself among a wetland on my way this morning.

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[Vasilia is in the library, shelving books and generally getting the lay of the stacks. When she sees something out of place she goes for it-- surgical, putting it back in order as if she blames it for being out. Patterns, she's always been good at patterns.]

[OOC: Sorry about the lateness, Nemo!]

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Date: 2011-10-23 07:34 am (UTC)
tobecaprican: (you know it's gonna haunt me)
From: [personal profile] tobecaprican
...but they were still created as a workforce, as something to fill in where humanity lacked.

I mean-- now don't get me wrong, I am well in favour of robotic theory and research, but I've also dug into analytical discourse regarding where we-- my people-- went wrong. But if you create an artificial intelligence designed to power a race of machines to complement humanity, how do you avoid the inevitable rebellion should they gain self-awareness? Such as, we, as organic lifeforms, have different priorities than machines, our need for territory and sustenance being of a different nature than what machines need.

Or-- you mention symbiosis. Did you design them to require humanity?

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Date: 2011-10-23 07:42 am (UTC)
tobecaprican: (the spaceman says everybody look)
From: [personal profile] tobecaprican
[ He listens, and hears nothing objectionable - that he debates a little more is due to new thought. ]

Humans weren't created. Unless you subscribe to the idea of intelligent design and religion, which I do not, I think we crawled out of a swamp and descended from the trees. Nothing is responsible for us.

We are responsible for the robots. We can be blamed.

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Date: 2011-10-23 10:11 am (UTC)
tobecaprican: (they're calling me by my name)
From: [personal profile] tobecaprican
There's a reason that humans don't have any Three Laws, though. On one hand [ and he goes to put the book he took out away ] it means we have the capacity to be terrible, and maybe we'd rail against our creators for not taking the precautions your people did with your robotics.

But on the other hand, it's a matter of free will. The choice to not be terrible, over simply being programmed.

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Date: 2011-10-23 10:55 pm (UTC)
tobecaprican: (that was the turning point)
From: [personal profile] tobecaprican
[ Silent for a moment, before giving her a smile, small and prim. ]

Well, it sounds as though your people found success in this area. And really, 'free will' of humanity has its own limits. We've laws, pressures, doubt. We're programmed in our own way.

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