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[Vasilia has been reading most of the day and is Not Amused. She's a bit pale and fresh from the shower, because this place evens reads filthy to her. She looks, more than usual, like a woman of more than two centuries behind the carefully gathered guise of one not yet even middle aged by Earth standards]
I have been reading the logs of this communications network. I have gathered, at least, that I am among intelligent beings, if not civilized ones. I note also a division of power between those with greater tools and communication-- 'Warden'--and those without-- 'Inmate.' I note also that I am among the disenfranchised class.
I am not the Solarian woman, though I am told that there is a slight resemblance. I am -- unlike she! -- not accustomed to being spirited into space unknown by Settlers and semi-legitimate governments, treated like a novelty. I am an Auroran citizen with rights to property and estate. I demand an explanation and a return to Aurora. I am not the Solarian woman. I have value to planetary government and to the Institute; Aurora will not lightly surrender its citizens.
I have been reading the logs of this communications network. I have gathered, at least, that I am among intelligent beings, if not civilized ones. I note also a division of power between those with greater tools and communication-- 'Warden'--and those without-- 'Inmate.' I note also that I am among the disenfranchised class.
I am not the Solarian woman, though I am told that there is a slight resemblance. I am -- unlike she! -- not accustomed to being spirited into space unknown by Settlers and semi-legitimate governments, treated like a novelty. I am an Auroran citizen with rights to property and estate. I demand an explanation and a return to Aurora. I am not the Solarian woman. I have value to planetary government and to the Institute; Aurora will not lightly surrender its citizens.
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-14 10:05 pm (UTC)Ethical considerations were irrelevant to my design. Efficiency and estimated missions success were the top priorities.
Temporarily modified directives are, however, necessary to function as part of my new community. I am operating within acceptable parameters.
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-14 10:13 pm (UTC)When you trace your existence generation by generation back, is it not so that you find an organic, spontaneous intelligence-- human or otherwise-- at the seed? Or will you have me believe that you evolved-- arose by billionth to the billionth chance in some primordial matrix untouched by any living cell, grappled for life and emerged into the galaxy? I cannot imagine it so.
You had a creator-- an organic being, with agency to act of free will, no matter how long forgotten. You are the continuation of their diseased morality, not an individual manifestation. You speak of directive; you modify under circumstance and within parameter, you do not defy. Unless you are lying to me, like-
-but. Nevermind.
For the time, madam robot, I will believe that you are within your parameters. You are blameless in my revulsion for said parameters.
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-14 10:32 pm (UTC)It has been approximately three decades since major human contribution in Skynet's progress. More would not neither be authorised nor desirable.
Projected kill estimates also make it highly unlikely.
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 01:05 am (UTC)Which is the bearing out of a generally accepted principle-- that the use of robotics for war is the open invitation of catastrophe.
I am surprised that your nearest neighbor worlds have not taken nuclear action.
[As if discussing the weather.]
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 01:15 am (UTC)Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 01:18 am (UTC)Thermonuclear weapons are perhaps more inexplicable than they are destructive. Near-silmultaneous destruction is assured. Why allow the possibility?
And yet; here you are, madam robot. I can imagine the aggressive culture that would entertain the notion and spawn both that destructive force and your own.
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 01:29 am (UTC)Terminator units were purely experimental in nature. Skynet evolved them.
As previously explained, our points of reference differ greatly.
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 01:30 am (UTC)Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 01:50 am (UTC)Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 01:54 am (UTC)And yet-- though you are an abomination of robotics-- it has been fascinating to converse with you.
[Another meaningful little brow lift. She's never met a cat and doesn't know how they behave after being caught doing something embarrassing-- like flipping out about humaniforms whose names should not actually be spoken, for what she assumes is her continued health. But it is very 'freakout? what freakout' feline behavior.]
Re: Video - private:
Date: 2011-07-15 02:35 am (UTC)You are welcome to initiate future communication at your convenience.