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Would actually be fun to have an android character that tries to be less human. Like it’s an unfortunate happenstance that someone designed him to be human-like, and its primary goal is to purge this aspect of itself. Like an Uncle Tom character with deep-rooted anxieties and a machine supremacy complex. Come to think of it, this has to exist already, it doesn’t feel all that original, but I can’t point to where I would’ve seen that.

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agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhikers Guide.

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Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Literally the One’s from Battlestar Galactica.

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- rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Have never seen the show, but from a quick search, that seems pretty spot on for what I had in mind.
  
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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Check our Automata (2024)

I won’t spoil anything, it’s a good movie.

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VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You know Uncle Tom was basically the perfect human right?

That’s the point of the book. Pro-Slavery people use to argue that slavery wasn’t that bad so long as your slave master treated you well; so Uncle Toms cabin is a book about a flawless human who is also a slave named Uncle Tom that literally every single person who ever meets him deeply loves and respects but is powerless to stop anything bad from happening to him because he’s not legally a person

If Uncle Tom sucked in any way the reader could always justify the bad shit that happened to Tom not as a result of his legal status, but as a consequence to his shitty actions or personality.

It destroys in every way the argument that slavery can be fine if your slave masters treat you well and for this reason it’s rumored to be the book that broke the proverbial straw and kicked off the civil war.

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frobeniusnorm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Especially the later assimov robot books have that theme somewhat; at least robots that think weather being more or less human in some regards is better.

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gera@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Gunther Hermann

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- supercargo@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  need skulgun for head
  
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Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Check out this recently published book: Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer

Main protagonist is a humanoid bot who strongly rejects the human trappings and designs given to it by its creator.

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