[text] crawling out of the woodwork

[functioningperfectly]

I am curious as to why there have been moments of hostility towards the AI on this ship. Any information that can be given in explanation would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[text]

[testgasm]

it's your classic human superiority complex

also i think robots killed the parents of at least two people on board

don't worry i'm on it

[logicunlocked]

[ His initial reaction to this message coming across the network was foolish; he knew D wasn't on the ship, because he would have heard from him by now. Yet the loss was still overwhelming, along with the silence in his head, and it accounted for the way he tried to keep himself surrounded by people at all times.

It so happened that this message came across when he was in bed, trying to get some sleep, having drunk a little bit too much, and so he reacted immediately by keying in the first five letters that leapt to his mind. ]

Delta?

Text

[godofthemachine]

Ignorance.

[text]

[functioningperfectly]

Humans have killed the parents of quite a few people here, I believe, but they do not have any misgivings towards them. I find that very strange.

What are you going to do?

[functioningperfectly]

I'm afraid my name is not Delta.

Text

[functioningperfectly]

I suppose that may be it, but it seems very silly.

[logicunlocked]

[ There's a pause before York answers. He has to roll over and get out of that half-lying, half-sitting position he'd gotten into in his surprise and haste when he'd tapped out the first message. And he has to take a moment to feel really stupid about sending that. ]

Yeah, I should have known that. Sorry to bug you.

[godofthemachine]

These humans create us thinking we'll be their servants. Do the tasks that they can't be bothered to do themselves. Ignorant to the possible consequences.

[functioningperfectly]

It's quite all right.

[functioningperfectly]

I don't know if I agree with that. The humans I have talked to, both here and at home, were very understanding and didn't seem to have any menial plans for me. I was, however, created to be companionable, so I suppose that may hae something to do with my inability to think of it in the terms you've used.

text;

[willpunchfaces]

uh maybe because youre robots

Re: [text]

[testgasm]

classic human double standard goes hand-in-hand with your classic human superiority complex

i'm just writing

informational packet-type things you know

[godofthemachine]

How fortunate for you then.

text;

[functioningperfectly]

Some of us were robots, yes. I was a computer, however, and now I am completely organic and, for all intents and purposes, completely human.

[text]

[functioningperfectly]

That's very nice of you, Wheatley. May I please see what you write before you post it to the network?

text;

[willpunchfaces]

and i dont really care

[functioningperfectly]

I suppose.

text;

[functioningperfectly]

But why?

text;

[willpunchfaces]

you dont think like one, do you

text;

[functioningperfectly]

Like a human? I suppose not. I think more analytically than most humans I've spoken to, I think. But thought processes vary from person to person, don't they?

[testgasm]

yeah i thought so too you would not believe the kinds of misconceptions they circulate among themselves

sure you can look at it when i'm finished

anything you'd want to add

text;

[willpunchfaces]

some, maybe. but just because you have a human brain now doesnt mean you think and feel like one. so youre still just a robot

text;

[functioningperfectly]

I see.

How do humans think and feel?

[logicunlocked]

[ If this went on much longer he was going to switch to audio, because texting tipsy with only one working eye wasn't the easiest thing ever. But he did want to give some input on the original premise. ]

So you know, not everyone is hostile to AIs.

[meddler]

Oh you know how it is. One AI tries to murder you and suddenly every AI looks a little bit dodgy.