{"id":10532,"date":"2022-04-30T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2022-04-30T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T03:41:12","slug":"friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2022\/friend","title":{"rendered":"FrIEND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a couple of rules about robots in Eyes Wide to the Stars. FrIEND, who exists in our current Eyes Wide game, is a good illustration of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1038\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-1038x725.jpeg\" alt=\"FReight, Information &amp; ExploratioN anDroid is a robot with six limbs that can be ridden or carry cargo. It stands as tall as a person and can reconfigure its body and hands for different purposes. It\u2019s also kind of a sweet guy.\" class=\"wp-image-10533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-1038x725.jpeg 1038w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-150x105.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-768x536.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-1536x1073.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-2048x1431.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-1200x838.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-400x279.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-86x60.jpeg 86w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/97862570-E737-44AA-9862-89A7A089AC9F-129x90.jpeg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>I\u2019m EXTREMELY grateful to Allegra, who came up with this extremely tortured acronym.<br>It\u2019s perfect.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robots are:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>People.<\/strong> They have a soul and a mind. Just like humans are just barely on the cusp of consciousness, robots are just on the cusp of humanlike protosapience. That means that they can be nudged into full consciousness like humans can and can be sensed as minds like other sapient and near-sapient beings. They can probably learn to reach into hyperspace once they reach consciousness. See: sapient alien spaceships.<\/li><li><strong>Built for a purpose,<\/strong> and love doing their job. Unless something elseinterferes and they have to make a choice, they will do their job. A forklift might sneak someone hiding in a crate by bellowing at a guard at volumes that you can hear over industrial machinery even if it\u2019s bending the rules, but it will solve its problems by doing what it loves: forklifting. It might come off as drudging requirement or pride in its work, but it genuinely loves doing what it was built for. That doesn\u2019t mean that it feels like its current job is the best it can be.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"HTTPS:\/\/patreon.com\/joshua\">Hey, back me up! I can do this kind of thing because you like it enough to pay me to make things up!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FrIEND so far has been useful and cool, but the best part is that there was a chance to gain advantage by leaving him behind and it wasn\u2019t even a choice. At best, it would be like leaving behind the dog. I think I like the \u201ctrusted animal\u201d model the most, though we\u2019ll have to see if there are robots somewhere in the setting that we feel are full agents. In a universe populated by humans who regularly enslave humans, it seems likely that there are social forces that want to keep them without agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png 1080w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-768x149.png 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-1024x198.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of rules about robots in Eyes Wide to the Stars. 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