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Yes, traditional future-gazing has always had a problem failing to de-antropomorphise, a failure of imagination IMO. One of Asimov's stories has a robot pilotin
by tragomaskhalos 11y ago
Yes, traditional future-gazing has always had a problem failing to de-antropomorphise, a failure of imagination IMO.
One of Asimov's stories has a robot piloting a spaceship as a literal humanoid robot in a seat. The ship won't go because the robot is pushing down on the control bar too hard or something, something the designers hadn't factored in. Not to overly diss one of the giants of the genre, but even as a kid I found this setup kind of silly.
- andrewaylett 11y agoAs I recall -- and I don't have the book in front of me -- the Robot's presence was explained as being a reasonable proxy for having a person present. The in-story thinking was that if the robot survived with no positronic damage, a person would likely survive too as the positronic and biological brains were of equivalent complexity and sensitivity.
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