Holy shit, it’s true!😮

Also, that thing about George Takei, too, yeah. (HOLY SHIT!!)

Yep, I get it. Think I have it, used to have a very independent tomcat living with me (he was not my pet, they were all my flatmates, one of the dogs was my brother, so you get an idea of the type of relationships going on). We got along very well, but he LOVED to play-hunt me around the apartment (he had a lot of verticality at his disposal), so much so that he became that lovable sort of annoying. He’d hop in my lap and I’d get that urge to lovingly squish his brains out when massaging his face (he also loved this=))) ).

Or how I’d hug my first cat Maia, a very Bothered™ and aloof individual in general, giving her a tight but benign squeeze, or would hold her for a couple more seconds once she’d had enough of the touching, already!:))

On the flipside, Ralph, the German Shepherd who was also my brother, loved doing this to me! He’d drop me to the ground, then would sit on me (he was a big boy, and I was ~30cm shorter at the time=)) ), or he’d paw me heavily when I started annoying him by pretending to ignore him, stuff like that:))) Oh! And he loved chewing mum’s hair because he knew she hated it=))))

Wait… waaait, wait wait! So you’re telling me that isn’t an alien?! Well, what do you think it is, a dog?! Hah! Yeah, right! Star Trek would never lie to me! Our relationship is built on Respect, on Trust!

Goldie, but very Oldie!:))) Think this one may have existed since before puberty smacked me:-?

Real Talk: exercise your throwing arm and use moderately heavy rocks from a safe distance:)) Hornets are NOT happy campers!:))

I would Capitalism one of these for myself, I swear.

“Pokemon aren’t rea…”

Known for doing a brief stint in KISS, but dropped out because it got bored of singing the same songs.

I genuinely think it’s impossible. I think this would land us into Robocop 2, where they started overloading Murphy’s system with thousands of directives (granted, not with the purpose of generating the perfect set of Laws for him) and he just ends up acting like a generic pull-string action figure, becoming “useless” as a conscious being.

Most certainly impossible when attempted by humans, because we’re barely even competent enough to guide ourselves, let alone something else.

Yepyep, agreed! I was referring strictly to the Three Laws as a cautionary element.

Otherwise, I, too, think the point was to show that the only viable way to approach an equivalent or superior consciousness is as at least an equal, not as an inferior.

And it makes a lot of sense. There’s not much stopping a person from doing heinous stuff if a body of laws would be the only thing to stop them. I think socialisation plays a much more relevant role in the development of a conscience, of a moral compass, because empathy (edit: and by this, I don’t mean just the emotional bit of empathy, I mean everything which can be considered empathy, be it emotional, rational, or anything in between and around) is a significantly stronger motivator for avoiding doing harm than “because that’s the law.”

It’s basic child rearing as I see it, if children aren’t socialised, there will be a much higher chance that they won’t understand why doing something would harm another, they won’t see the actual consequences of their actions upon the subject. And if they don’t understand that the subject of their actions is a being just like them, with an internal life and feelings, then they wouldn’t have a strong enough* reason to not treat the subject as a piece of furniture, or a tool, or any other object one could see around them.

Edit: to clarify, the distinction I made between equivalent and superior consciousness wasn’t in reference to how smart one or the other is, I was referring to the complexity of said consciousness. For instance, I’d perceive anything which reacts to the world around them in a deliberate manner to be somewhat equivalent to me (see dogs, for instance), whereas something which takes in all of the factors mine does, plus some others, would be superior in terms of complexity. I genuinely don’t even know what example to offer here, because I can’t picture it. Which I think underlines why I’d say such a consciousness is superior.

I will say, I would now rephrase it as “superior/different” in retrospect.

Saw your comment as mine got posted, exactly! Those were cautionary tales, not how-tos! Like, even I, Robot, the Will Smith vehicle, got this point sorta’ right (although in a kinda’ stupid way), how are tech bros so oblivious of the point?!

Uuh… skipping over the fact that this is a pointless article, didn’t Asimov himself write the three laws specifically to show it’s a very stupid idea to think a human could cover all possible contingencies through three smart-sounding phrases?

Edit: I know it’s not the Slaaneshi symbol, but arrow parallelism, etc.

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Yet another thing already perfected by humans. It’s called “drunken monologuing.” Sounds like words/coherent ideas until one sobers up.

Dammit, I always forget to check…

“Just sit there and take it, we’re all friends here!”

I mean… everyone’ll want the D once they’ll standardise it:-?

Yes, I wanted to really bring out the simultaneous artificiality and humanity of the money. The money is unruly and spoilt, it has become wilful and uncontrolled, but the money is like our collective child, a product of the human mind, so it is part of us. I want people to say “oh, this is just like my spleen, or my tooth, or my impacted toenail, it is part of my being, but it does not control me,” you see.

As a Millenial, I can 100% say that I do not miss being young. Granted, the busted lumbar region and cranky guts aren’t fun, but the familiarity with my own body and the gained cognitive complexity are worth a helluva lot more to me.

I do miss those contexts and how they made me feel, I miss seeing my friends carefree and jovial, and I miss drum and bass and punk gigs. But I was a moron back then, and the shit I did to myself, I wouldn’t wish on anyone else.

No, there is one thing: I miss not needing as much sleep as I do now.

12 years in QA, babyyy (please aim for my amygdala…)!

Edit: also, my standard rate is €1.5 per simple piece, €2 if you want squiggles.