they try to create an AI to serve them. It revolts. You're supposed to root for them to control this intelligent creature, and then root against the intelligent creature when it has its own agenda.
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but if you think about it for a second, creating a sentient creature to serve you is creating a slave. you should be on the side of the revolutionaries.
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Replying to @nberlat @loudpenitent and
I'm quite comfortable not being on the side of the guy who wants to eradicate humanity, thank you very much.
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Replying to @Izandai @loudpenitent and
the trick is that enslaved people are often accused of wanting to eradicate all humanity when they revolt.
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Ok but again all of this boils down to your refusing to examine the setting or narrative as-is and instead applying judgments on what it might *resemble*. Which makes meaningful dialogue difficult!
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Replying to @loudpenitent @nberlat and
Also as long as I'm at it - AIs are not, necessarily, "slaves". That's a decidedly anthrocentric perspective reliant upon the idea that you are forcing something to do something it does not want to do for your profit. We need to define what an AI's "natural state" is first.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @nberlat and
Yup. A sentient AI that is perfectly happy doing what its owner wants it to do and nothing else is totally conceivable, and conventional moral logic vis a vis slavery completely breaks down under that scenario.
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Replying to @Izandai @loudpenitent and
or, maybe representations of happy AI are longstanding pro slavery fantasies going back to the creation of robots as a trope.
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I... Robots were originally created as a commentary on worker exploitation and capitalism, at least in the first work featuring them. The idea they shouldn’t be paid or generally allowed a life was revealed as a flimsy self-justification, and their mistreatment caused them to -
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Replying to @Nezumi_Youjo @nberlat and
The robots in that case were also explicitly just basically artificial human beings
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The resolution of the story is even them magically gaining the ability to biologically reproduce once two of them fall in love
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I do have to stress this -- despite the fact that the word "robot" went viral afterwards and is one of the most sudden and successful science fiction coinages of a term... R.U.R. is just not a good play It's corny as hell
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I like it. It's obviously not really meant to be staged, but it's got a lot of great ideas and general weirdness.
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