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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @nberlat @Izandai and

      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!

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Izandai‏ @Izandai 4 Aug 2020
      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 4 Aug 2020
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Cat and Mouse‏ @Nezumi_Youjo 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @nberlat @Izandai and

      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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    6. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Nezumi_Youjo @nberlat and

      The robots in that case were also explicitly just basically artificial human beings

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @Nezumi_Youjo and

      The resolution of the story is even them magically gaining the ability to biologically reproduce once two of them fall in love

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      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

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    9. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 4 Aug 2020
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @nberlat @loudpenitent and

      Oh come on it's one of the earliest and also one of the worst and most contrived uses of one of the worst cliché endings in science fiction "No, my name is Adam, and you're... Eve"

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and

      If you are writing some kind of thing about robots and the final line of your thing has a big twist where specifically the female character reveals she is named/gets renamed Eve, you should be shot I do not think this is an unreasonable request

      8:24 PM - 4 Aug 2020
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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 4 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and

          I first saw this trope as the ending to Zelazny's "For A Breath I Tarry...", and even as a kid I thought it was pretty corny and unnecessary, and that version of it is so much better than every other time I've seen it *Especially* RUR

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