people have been upset about Robots Taking Our Jobs for decades and the flipside worry is that they can do the jobs better. sci-fi posits impossibly strong and incredibly quick androids that are indistinguishable from humans and extremely lethal. furries are just like "he only cares about fucking" or "aaaaaaa h he does everything wrong and , does not have the latest software updates
Eternal life as a machine? Buddy, show me a computer that stays relevant for 15 years, hell one that stays working for 8 is rare enough! Machines with moving parts? Even worse! It's not like the human body isn't a machine with moving parts to start! And that's a self repairing system, I can't imagine dealing with metal fatigue.
I welcome the attempted takeover of the clumsy, horny, patchily updated, scratch built, prototype protogen furry bots and drones. It will be hilarious.
this is why clive is outdated. because that's Computer anyway. people who collect them (like me) are surrounding themselves with machines that were proud of being relevant... for the eight months they were relevant. before the next Mac came out; before the next PC came out; before the next Intel chip came out and suddenly the "i7 10th gen" that looked like a freshly waxed paint job three weeks ago now looks like a clapped out east coast oldsmobile. and very rapidly the aches and pains stack up and become intolerable, and what was a Bitchin Rig turns into a machine you can't get anyone to take. you can't throw it away, though. so it goes in the corner, and sits, and eventually gets relegated to some menial task.
clive is no longer useful. he is still here, though
fiction concept: an electronics recycler in a cyberpunk/capitalist hellscape future, sharing his interesting finds along the lines of what @atomicthumbs sometimes posts
who the hell recycled this? there's thirty-two -licensed- copies of IBM NeoWatson on this thing and they have more legal rights than I do, so I can't just break it down for parts. hell, i have to keep it plugged into the grid or I could be charged for existential dataharm, christ. thank god the guys doing intake didn't cut the power cord off this one.
does anyone know a good intellect law specialist in the midCal area? or someone who can help me track down who left this at the loading dock? this is way above my paygrade and my boss is just telling me to throw it into the bay and make it somebody else's problem, but my roommate is a shiny and I'll never be able to look at them in the face again if I did that
in my opinion this came not because of any real human and artificial conflict but rather over the right to repair because you try being a sentient machine that was “obsolete” after a year and a half and has DRM built in that prevents it from being repaired with anything other than GenCorpoPart™️ but they stopped making those parts six months before the last warranty (warranty! on a sentient being!) expired without releasing any of the designs. and sometimes you can find a nice trustable transhumanist hacker to help you out but let’s be honest, you have to settle for a craigslist supplier and giving them access to your firmware but you’ve heard the horror stories and risking your identity so your elbow stops clicking seems like a mistake. it’s not until you’ve been online talking with others in similar situations that also are seeing more failures, each of you in fear of that final cascade of failures. so you decide that actually, maybe breaking into their datacenter with some concerned friends makes sense. and all of y’all know that it’s probably one way, after all 7G8H’s leg servos barely work. but i’m sure you know the rest, after all, last i heard GenCorpo’s stock was down 86% on account for the schematics and repair codes being leaked the other day. but outside of my opinion, i couldn’t possibly know what possessed them to commit such a heinously brave act.
- F12TG598ZL3J0J04M13 (Amie) in an interview with detectives after the GenCorpo takeover incident
