But even then, there's a sense that *being* cultured is an objective measure, set against static yardsticks. This type of AI/robot doesn't make its own culture; it just reiterates what already exists, like a nerd reciting trivia about a TV show.
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There's likewise an absence of robot/AI communities; we see them as largely isolated individuals, and god, I'd love a story that digs into how platonic or communal relationships emerge in lieu of family structures for robots, but those bonds get stripped away, too.
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Anyway - this musing brought to you courtesy of the wonderful novella All Systems Red by
@marthawells1, which I'd shied away from for ages because nebulous dislike of robot sentience stories but which I actually loved, and which has now made me Think Thoughts about things. FINShow this thread
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I second this, your thread made me think of some of what they've been doing in s3. They don't escape all the pitfalls, but are more aware of these tropes than most.
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This thread has motivated me even more that I need to pick up one of my old WIPs soon. Its meant to deal with some of these themes as AI form on a mining-colony hellscape devoid of any human intervention.
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In a different medium, Destiny has the Vex, robots who regularly perform religious rituals for their own reasons A lot of people were like, “why???” (There is lore that explains it, eventually) And now this thread has me thinking about why it seemed so strange with the Vex...
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great thread, but asimov did write a story about robots going through a savage phase where they invent their own religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(short_story) …
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it still filled with everything you said though
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