15 - Bright lights, fast cars, disease

[no_fastolfe]

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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[hourglass_twin]

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?

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[no_fastolfe]

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

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[hourglass_twin]

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

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[no_fastolfe]

...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.

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[hourglass_twin]

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

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[no_fastolfe]

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.

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[hourglass_twin]

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

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[no_fastolfe]

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.

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[hourglass_twin]

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