CONFESSIONS MEME

[devoutish]

1. Post a comment with your character spilling their confessions and innermost thoughts for all to see
2. Go around and comment to other characters ICly, expressing shock, awe, disgust, anger, etc.
3. Discuss, accuse, commiserate, threadjack, etc.

Comments

[knaval]

[HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN RACISM, CASSIAN]

I-- I just am! Everyone knows AIs aren't real!

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[candor1]

[Time to shift gears (from "you"s to "I"s) unless he wants the conversation to end. And he really doesn't. The hope is to connect not reject.]

I'm interested because when I hear organics say it, I assume I know why. Accepting droid sentience makes us afraid we're deterministic, machinery, too. Neurons or circuits, it's all electrical impulses.

[might be too corny, but… worth a shot]

I've never found that frightening. Or less amazing. However we're initially set going, the fact that we do go forward alone… Makes me hope we can all be more than our starts.

[knaval]

But it's not fair!

[woah sudden outburst]

Why should they get everything handed to them on a coded platter?! They don't have to go through the hell of being forced to run before they can walk! They're made for a purpose and know it inside out from the moment they're created!

[candor1]

[Huh… that's an angle Cassian hadn't considered. He's grateful they got to it.

Tempted to tag in Kay to speak for himself. But if Kay had wanted to engage he would have; so Cassian will just try not to misrepresent, and keep things anonymous.]

Yeah. Though I think… sometimes it's a trade.

I reprogrammed a droid from having a specified purpose to having… free will, I hoped.

[If there's really such a thing for any of us. See above.]

The way he's characterized it to me… free will is more of a burden, and an ordeal. But when he had handed-down purpose… he didn't "know it inside" because he didn't have choice or awareness to know. There was purpose but no 'self'.

…Which is not to say I don't know how you feel. I think I do.

[knaval]

You ever tried having enough free will to know your purpose is horrific but can't do anything about it?

I don't recommend. At it didn't know.

[candor1]

Not exactly but might be able to imagine.

Seems like you've managed to advance beyond that, yourself…?

[knaval]

I like to think in the three million years I've been alive I have.

[candor1]

[a faintly reverent smile]

You're right, I probably can't imagine.

For what it's worth, I struggle among other organics, too; with how unevenly and senselessly distributed the advantages and obstacles… how some have so much more to overcome than others.

[knaval]

That's different. Organics aren't like AIs.