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A nervous public will demand that organic robots be given an arbitrarily short lifespan as a failsafe. Say four years. And those robots would also be restricte
by mmusson 11y ago
A nervous public will demand that organic robots be given an arbitrarily short lifespan as a failsafe. Say four years. And those robots would also be restricted to working in outer space because it would be too hard to control robots indistinguishable from ordinary humans on Earth.
- david-given 11y agoThen it will start being four o'clock in the morning and raining. All. The. Time. On the plus side, there will be a sudden popularity in delicious noodle bars.
- rzzzt 11y agoFancy umbrellas will also be abound.
- dragontamer 11y agoThe light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. The problem with 4 years is that they'll be significantly stronger and smarter than us.
- mmusson 11y ago"I've... seen things... you people wouldn't believe." "Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate..." "All those... moments... will be lost, in time, like [chokes up] tears... in... rain." "Time... to die."