001: un: A2

[a2brutus]

Since it seems to come up a lot, and since we got a bunch of new people recently, I'll make it clear to everyone.

Androids are not machines. Don't call us machines, and don't call us robots.

And since I have your attention still, there's a machine running around. Tall, male, red eyes and white hair. If he starts anything let me know so I can test how sharp my sword is. I promise I'll do it quietly. Or at least with no one else around.

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un: purpleman

[kiljoy]

[Well, he's definitely been getting that wrong. Also, he's still not seeing the difference...]

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between you and a machine?

[Because that description she gave of a man with white hair doesn't sound all that different to 9S.]

[a2brutus]

[Wow. 9S doesn't have red eyes.]

For one, machines generally don't look human. It's just that this particular asshole does. Secondly, a machine doesn't give a rats ass whether humans live or die.

Not to mention they're dumb as a box of rocks to boot.

[kiljoy]

That just sounds like you have different programming. Aren't you all basically mechanical?

[Machines, robots, androids. They're all in similar categories as far as he's concerned. Of course, he's not exactly an expert in the field.]

[a2brutus]

And you're made of organic material. What makes you different from a boar? You're all the same, right?

[t o u c h y]

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[twoaffirmations]

You're wasting your time, A2.

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[a2brutus]

Don't care, 9S. I don't have anything better to do.

[twoaffirmations]

Oh, well have fun wasting it then.

I doubt he even thinks we androids have free will.

[a2brutus]

I've wasted my time on worse things.

He's in for a surprise then, isn't he?

[twoaffirmations]

Guess so.

[kiljoy]

We're all animals, sure. Organic beings. Different species, obviously.

I think I understand. The difference between you and a machine is that you're more intelligent and you care. So if you altered the programming of one of these machines, like your friend up there, and gave him an AI like yours, would he become an android?

[Maybe it's just semantics. Although he's mildly intrigued at why she's so antagonistic towards this other robot.]

[a2brutus]

Don't call him my friend.

And no. He wouldn't. Machines have a collective consciousness. Androids are individuals.

[kiljoy]

So you've got individual robots and you've got networked robots. Why aren't you robots again?

[He is genuinely curious here, like what is this bizarre classification system.]

[a2brutus]

A robot can't think.

[kiljoy]

[Okay, so the terminology use is different. And she's touchy about it. He's getting that. Well then...]

All right. Who's this machine that pissed in your cheerios? An enemy of yours?

[a2brutus]

All machines are the enemy of Androids. The only good machine is a dead machine.

[kiljoy]

Why?

[a2brutus]

Because they were created to wipe out all human life on earth. They were made to destroy us androids.

[kiljoy]

[Oh. That is actually a really good reason. And doesn't bode well for this machine, assuming that she's telling the truth.]

Then you'd better put it down, hadn't you?

[a2brutus]

I would love nothing more than to break him into pieces and spit on them but there isn't much point when he'd just come back now is there?

So I figure if he doesn't cause problems I won't have to take him out. Painfully.

[kiljoy]

Can't it be deactivated? Or reprogrammed?

[a2brutus]

I was made to break things, not to change how they work. Besides, if I tried my hand at hacking into him to mess around with his files he might install some kind of logic virus onto my system.

The last thing anyone here needs is a logic virus infected android running around murdering indiscriminately.

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[kiljoy]

Sounds like you need a programming expert. Someone human. Want a name?

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[a2brutus]

Tempting offer, but I don't think it's smart to put a human in harms way when the easier option is to make him cower before me.

[kiljoy]

Judging by that conversation up there, I don't see any cowering. Are you sure you have this under control?

[a2brutus]

Yeah, I just finished beating him into submission.