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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?

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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Loki on 23 Apr 2013, 10:43 ---Which raises an interesting question: How could Clinton afford the hand? Was it covered by insurance? Or was it a "pay for it with prize money from IT competitions because you are some kind of child prodigy" sort of thing?

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Or just get it free for being prepared to be experimented on, perhaps?

Loki:
There was a figure somewhere claiming that Momo's chassis cost 30k, give or take. That is without personality included.

The hand is arguably way cheaper, as it's only a hand, but it has some tech built in that allows it to interact with biological nerves. It is also detachable and STILL remains either voice- or thought-controlled. The incident that caused him to lose his old hand was when he was thirteen (so he says), but that would imply that he is got it later or it auto-adjusted to his growing body or that he bought a new (bigger) one at some point. The last two options would add a bit to the cost. So how much ever it cost, it certainly wasn't cheap.

*hits submit*

Warning - while you were typing a better plausible idea has been posted.

...or yeah, that.

Is it cold in here?:
My guess had been insurance. Health insurance seems to work better in the QC universe.

Neko_Ali:
This does bring up a new question... We have seen that AntroPC companions are not created to order, but rather there is a match making service that sets up compatible humans and AIs to be companions. The human partner takes on the financial responsibility for maintaining and upgrading the AnthroPC's hardware... But who is creating and paying for their bodies in the first place, before they are assigned? We know that Momo and others chose to be companions for whatever reason they had, but nobody as far as I know has talked much about their existence before hand. Were they AIs who wanted a corporeal existence? Did they have other jobs and other bodies before becoming companions? They can hold jobs presumably legally (Momo works in the library, unless it's under the table). So what other jobs can or do AnthroPCs hold? And who is making the new AIs anyway?

Pilchard123:
Perhaps the AnthroPCs themselves? Just spitballing here though.

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