Japanese cyberpunk is better than western cyberpunk because it understands the only way AI could possibly be a threat to humans is if it can make mechanical tentacles burst out of people's chests and turn them into cyber zombies.
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In order for a cybernetic system to expand physically as fast as it does mentally, it will need some sort of nanotech or biomechanical ability to alter it's own hardware in real time. In Rojin Z the machine just re-purposes external hardware to expand it's capabilities.
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Intelligence explosion is bio-mechanical tentacle sex and nothing else. This is probably not energy or heat efficient, but nothing in anime ever is. Sorry, those giant robots with beam rifles would probably be tanks or VTOL gunships with big heat sinks.
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I feel like there's a great thread to be had here talking about the how's and why's of humanoid mecha vs. other advanced weapon platforms.
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and that it was surprisingly well explored in first run of original Gundam, before they dropped the military SF aspects in pursuit of maximum cool toy-selling factor.
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