Robotman wrote:I've also got this little part of my fantasies where the sales-lady-robot says the words "product demonstration" to one of the showroom units. That robot then goes into a little routine for the customer, stepping out of her storage booth, stating her model number and listing her features. She basically goes into a self-sales pitch, mindlessly detailing everything she can do.
With but two words, your dormant robot comes alive and knows exactly all of what a "product demonstration" entails. I go the other route, take sleepers and ask them to "act" like fembots.
My product demonstration is itself [a staged product demonstration]. The real male customer is invisibly watching the sleepers, as they discuss questions they have about the behavior of the bots for sale who have just left after strutting their beauty (because enough performers for a line-up would be $$$).
Asking about and discussing the behaviors with the saleswoman, the sleeper customers will act out moments as the fembot product (which they unknowingly, actually are). I think it will be so much easier to demonstrate these states and traits, while describing them. (my verbal descriptions are worth a thousandth of a picture)
Fembots may behave:
- like a drone,
- or with a human personality that knows she's a machine,
- or as a weak sleeper,
- or as a strong sleeper
They will discuss:
#1 The interpreter level before her personality, which filters out and modifies sleeper's experience.
- she has ability to read her human owner's tells, then chess-computer, number-crunch through all her possible move sequences to find her best response. (tremendous manipulation potential, use against enemies).
- the interpreter can decide based on history and tells, which "personality" is supposed to receive any given piece of information. The drone can know anything, but a Stepford-style sleeper may act like a person in public, but an obedient version of that personality in private. The Owner's words have contextual meaning, and the fembot's interpreter-level can keep too much information from getting through to the wrong personalities.
#2 I.Q. reduction, bimbo, other forms of selectively programmed non-thinking.
#3 The "Eat her cake, and Have her, too" principle:
I build both kinds of origin stories into my sleeper fembots:
-- a personality who remembers growing up, was
converted and may have a memory of the event.
(note: There are no women converted into fembots, of course. That would be very, very, very... wrong, and that tech doesn't exist, and never could, and <made-up excuse #7>, and Oh, would you look at the time, I really must be off to talk about something else... ... Fembots created by conversion don't have to be real, so long as fembots are programmed to believe conversion exists.)
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-- a memory of her design specifications and the video of her being
assembled
(What does she believe, once awakened? You choose one, or set her to believe both, and see what happens.)
#4 Malfunctions! All the discussions we've had about the virtues of malfunctions, which will be new insights for the outsiders.
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The ladies' relative status goes up and down, as they each volunteer for a bit of improv, act like less than the person they seemed to be, react to the other's "act", and appear to human again at the end of the brief volunteer moment (was she a person who stopped acting like a robot, or a robot now running a personality program?).
Trust me, a simple moment of moving picture will be worth a thousand of my clumsy, technical, abstract words.
- Dale Coba
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