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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?
DSL:
They would be the best drone operators.
Or drones.
There you go. Imagine Pintsize enlisting, and opting to be upgraded to a General Atomics MQ-9 chassis.
You're welcome ...
Neko_Ali:
That would just mean when sent on a mission, instead of explosives he would drop graphic disgusting pictures of crazy pornography on the enemy.... I leave it up to you if that's worse or not, but I am pretty sure it's against the Geneva Convention.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 19 Apr 2013, 17:01 ---That would just mean when sent on a mission, instead of explosives he would drop graphic disgusting pictures of crazy pornography on the enemy.... I leave it up to you if that's worse or not, but I am pretty sure it's against the Geneva Convention.
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So he'd be Yelling Bird, then.
jwhouk:
I suddenly have a little head-canon of my own: Yelling Bird was Pintsize's "first" owner.
Storel:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 19 Apr 2013, 21:05 ---I suddenly have a little head-canon of my own: Yelling Bird was Pintsize's "first" owner.
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That... would explain a lot.
In a very scary way... :-o
Added later, after reading the earlier posts in this topic:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 05 May 2010, 11:17 ---Now I'm wondering if there really are 1.5-2m "fully functional" anthroPC's. And if so, why there's still a market for Realdolls.
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Because a "fully functional" anthroPC would basically be a RealDoll++ -- it would have to have hardware to do a whole lot of things that RealDolls can't, like walking and talking and moving their arms and manipulating things with their hands and having facial expressions, plus as much hardware and software as it needs to achieve sentience. In other words, it would be quite a bit more expensive than RealDolls, which run around $6,000-7,000 these days. (And some comparable Japanese sex dolls are up to $10,000.)
So RealDolls are still around in the QCverse because they're cheaper, thus appealing to a different market niche.
Edit 2: Oh, and as far as the actual thread topic is concerned: I think AnthroPCs are treated like children. They can talk, they're sentient, and they have some rights -- but they don't have the full rights (and responsibilities) that adult humans do. The adult human in the household is responsible for their actions and their welfare. Sounds just like children to me.
Except that children eventually get old enough to acquire the full rights and responsibilities of adult humans, and there's no clear evidence yet that AIs do. (Although AIs as mature as Station, at least, can have bank accounts and take money out of them without an adult human's permission.)
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