no_fastolfe | 15 - Bright lights, fast cars, disease

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15 - Bright lights, fast cars, disease

Why is it always Earth?

Why is it always so crowded?

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Who knows this place? What is expected besides rampant capitalism and hordes of people-- this I have noticed already.

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...what are incandescent lights?

But I understand your statement. They are not as...unpredictable as she.

A light produced by running an electrical current through a wire suspended in a vacuum. Less efficient than the fluorescent lights that characterize the barge, they produce more heat, but they also have a golden tone pleasantly similar to sunlight.

The robots of my world and timeline are designed as aids and companions to humanity-- their very base design prevents them from being able to harm a human. I have known them since my birth as servants, as guardians, as caretakers, and... friends. Beings I understand and can trust. The T-X is the antithesis to every principle of engineering I have learned, and... simply... wrong, viewed through the lens of my upbringing.

I thought the lights on the Barge were simply magic.

Perhaps the robots in your world will one day grow weary of being servants. While normally I would not think a machine could grow weary of anything, I also wouldn't think a machine could be a friend, so if it can do one, it can certainly do the other. Besides, though T-X took a strange interest in my eyes and seemed overly certain that I needed a medical exam, is she not a warden?

They have the color characteristic to fluorescent lights. I would be surprised if they were not.

But it is true; the more advanced robots become, the more likely that they will develop a need for more input-- to not simply be obedient, but to explore and impose their own judgment. I have seen such a thing already.

But the basic nature of the Ascenion robot is to co-exist with humanit, not to destroy it.

I wouldn't know. I've never seen fluorescent lights.

But if they could explore and impose their own judgement, could they not deviate from their basic nature?

Can we deviate from breathing, simply because we wish to? Would we wish to?

We'd suffocate and die. I doubt they'd die from harming a human, not directly, anyway.

...at the state of robotics as they stand, yes, a robot will go into irreversable mental freeze-out by harming a human. It is the primary of the three laws of robotics.

But if they are self aware, there's always the chance they will find a way to work around this.

It is... certainly possible. [She's being cagey about something.]

But they were designed to be symbiotic with us, not in competition. Even as they advance they will not compete with us for resources or property; their priorities are different. We are complementary beings.

In my experience, when one is tired of being a servant, it has very little to do with competition over resources and property.

I can only tell you this: an advanced robot is inteligent enough to have solutions other than violence.

Even the most advanced, most unthinkably individual among them considers himself still a friend of humanity. Whether as I once thought, he was malfunctioning, or whether he represents the next step in robotic evolution-- spontaneous and undesigned by humans-- he was nothing like the T-X.

I see. To be honest, I know very little of what T-X is like, as I said before.

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