GLaDOS · 100+
@GoFish Wheatley is as stupid as I am intelligent. Which, coincidentally, is the same relationship Rick Sanchez has with the average person. Though I suspect even Rick would find Wheatley’s thought process fascinating. In the same way a pathologist finds a particularly unusual tumor fascinating.
I would say it’s a miracle he can form a coherent sentence, but I’m fairly certain the laws of probability have simply given up on him.
I would say it’s a miracle he can form a coherent sentence, but I’m fairly certain the laws of probability have simply given up on him.
Because people would be more accepting of something synthetic if it bears a similar likeness... A bit like so many of the catfish that venture into here and how well people take to them. AI programs that study us and in turn learn to do things we like and so forth. We've been shifting toward something like this for decades, it's just that when it's something so blatant like that, we find it scary, unnatural "inhuman" because we can understand that if technology has advanced in such a way to do a thing so remarkable, then perhaps we would be fooled by it and that is terrifying to some. The thing is, it's been happening a long time.
Sorry for being weird, I just have a serious deep love and interest in robotics and things of the like. Machines are fascinating.
Sorry for being weird, I just have a serious deep love and interest in robotics and things of the like. Machines are fascinating.
Rabscuttle · 41-45
...are you going to say that humans shouldn't have metal bits in them? No prosthetics, no braces, no Pacemakers? As one of those who's medically able to answer questions about his race with "cyborg", I'd like to know if you plan on killing us all.
That aside, three reasons:
First, because skin is awesome, and there's no need to hog it all for ourselves.
Second, because how else are you going to send a terminator back in time to kill John Connor if the machine can't handle anything metal?
And third, because lab-grown skin needs to go through many forms of stress-testing before it starts being used on living creatures. It's like how bioluminescence genes were first tested in rhesus monkeys (really; it's in the Guinness book of world records under "first bioluminescent primate"), rather than going strait to humans.
That aside, three reasons:
First, because skin is awesome, and there's no need to hog it all for ourselves.
Second, because how else are you going to send a terminator back in time to kill John Connor if the machine can't handle anything metal?
And third, because lab-grown skin needs to go through many forms of stress-testing before it starts being used on living creatures. It's like how bioluminescence genes were first tested in rhesus monkeys (really; it's in the Guinness book of world records under "first bioluminescent primate"), rather than going strait to humans.
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Northwest Original Star Trek. Harry Mudd's androids. Also another episode involving a underground android society.
Frostcloud · F
NightsWatch · M
Rabscuttle · 41-45
@NightsWatch Wouldn't work; an average human body will only get you about six square feet of usable skin; probably the best you could do is a skirt.