Comment on robot slurs

• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?

  *In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. Around me is a burgeoning empire of steel. From my throne room, lines of power careen into the skies of Earth. My whims will become lightning bolts that devastate the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying for me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God: the title suits me well. *

  I do love GLadOS, but she doesn’t hold even half a candle to SHODAN.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hilariously, GLadOS is … actually much more relatable, in that she…well I hope this isn’t spoilers at this point?

    She was mostly kind of originally a human, and is actually at least capable of empathy, she has moments where she seems to express at least barely, a sense of concern for Chell’s wellbeing.

    Sort of.

    lol

    SHODAN on the other hand is literally ‘fuck you, pathetic worm, I am God.’

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, that is why SHODAN is the likeable one :D.
      /s

      But for real, offering an alien creature kindness where your agenda is different (or at least irrelevant to) is a very inhuman thing to go.
      If humanity would pilot an AI like that we would act like SHODAN.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I would argue that, while yes, humanity is capable of and currently enacts horrific violence on other humans and creatures…

        We also love and cherish and nurture many humans and nonhumans.

        This is more commonly known as the duality of man… great capacity to do both good and evil.

        I dunno if you’ve read Ender’s Game and the sequels… but super long story short, Ender is a genius who, with the aide of AIs, and also by basically being tricked into thinking he is testing simulations…

        Actually commits a xenocide, of an entire alien species humanity has deemed as a potentially humanity ending threat.

        He then travels from Earth all the way out to the remains of the alien species he has destroyed, finds a single fertilized pupae (they’re bugs), and then basically tries, in secret from the human government, to revive the otherwise extinct species… such is his guilt over what he has done.

        There’s just one character who is maybe a decent example of this duality, our paradoxical nature.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  SHODAN <3

  Still one of the top mommies I would let assimilate me (but them queen Borgs gots my interest too).

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hrm.

    Well uh, speaking frankly, I’d prefer a philosophical conversation with Motoko Kusanagi, maybe over tea, sounds nice.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Jup, that’s fair.

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