[Given the opinion he's formed of human beings. But he empathizes with what she actually means by that, and he wants to offer her his insight. She's not human; belligerent as he might be, there's no impetus to push her away or make her actively uncomfortable, even if he can't turn off his cynicism.
Once, he'd had something like this conversation, with Jocasta. His insight had come too late to help her, and it hadn't brought him any kind of happiness in the end either.]
It's- how can I put this? Take Ultron. He has programming. He's more than happy with it. He has a purpose. It might be an incredibly destructive and shitty purpose, from everyone else's point of view, but he's content with it. But, when he made- Jocasta- [It shouldn't be hard to talk about her, all these years later, but it still gives him a slight hitch, a stumble in his footing.] - she didn't like what he'd programmed her to be. She wanted something more. Something else.
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[Given the opinion he's formed of human beings. But he empathizes with what she actually means by that, and he wants to offer her his insight. She's not human; belligerent as he might be, there's no impetus to push her away or make her actively uncomfortable, even if he can't turn off his cynicism.
Once, he'd had something like this conversation, with Jocasta. His insight had come too late to help her, and it hadn't brought him any kind of happiness in the end either.]
It's- how can I put this? Take Ultron. He has programming. He's more than happy with it. He has a purpose. It might be an incredibly destructive and shitty purpose, from everyone else's point of view, but he's content with it. But, when he made- Jocasta- [It shouldn't be hard to talk about her, all these years later, but it still gives him a slight hitch, a stumble in his footing.] - she didn't like what he'd programmed her to be. She wanted something more. Something else.