#Artificial Lifeform Imitation post

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My relationship to humanity (both external and my own) and my personhood(s) are grounds for doctoral theses and would likely forward your world's technological advancement of artificial intelligence by about 4 and a half decades (give or take a major death in the field or two)

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This is like witnessing a nude model posing for a room of art students to me. It's beauty. Elegance. A vulnerable display and a remarkable representation of the rawest form. Unfortunately desired by unwelcome perverts. (Welcome perverts will have already gained consent prior to the display, so to speak.)

[yukidragon]

Do you think once Bo is freed from his Tamagotchi he starts aging? Or does he stay forever young?

I’m afraid it’s difficult to speculate on how well Bo can imitate biological functions with the limited lore we have on DachaBo so far.

Personally, I think Bo can’t age, not unless he somehow transfers his consciousness to a fully biological body.

Bo is an artificial creation, an advanced AI programmed made to be a dog-like pet. His breeding kink seems to come from his desire to be as real as flesh and blood lifeforms like the target of his yandere obsession, Puppy.

Despite the heavy breeding kink and his ability to manifest for sexy fun times, Bo’s body in “feed me” mode seems entirely artificial. It’s probably not even biologically compatible to breed... yet.

I suspect Bo is working on that little incompatibility. He just needs an... upgrade perhaps. Really, there’s no limit to what Bo can do with enough access to technology. He might even drop the “pet” aspects of himself in the process and just make Puppy his pet instead.

As Sauce showed before on their twitter, we really don’t know much about Bo.

Since I posted one of Sauce/JambeeBot’s awesome artworks, I want to remind everyone that using their art in posts like these is only okay if it’s their publicly posted works and it’s with full credit to them. Privately posted pictures from the SnaccPop Patreon should not be reposted. Instead, consider joining as a patron, or contributing to the Sunny Day Jack kickstarter. It goes a long way in helping the studio team make more lovely games like Sunny Day Jack and DachaBo.

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Ooh boy the latest DSC episode where they're discussing the differences between Zora and Control (if you don't watch the show, Control tried to destroy all life in the galaxy) and they said "Control was never capable of emotions" as if that fucking means anything, oh boy that made me feel some emotions, that made me go "kill kill kill kill"

I swear to fuck I cannot stand how star trek handles artificial lifeforms, it drips with ableism, DSC as a whole drips with ableism I swear to fuck, but the way that star trek handles artificial lifeforms is consistently terrible, it handles them better than star wars but that bar is at the center of a supermassive black hole, I really really hate the way that people talk about artificial lifeforms, star trek and star wars and every other work of fiction are just symptoms of a larger problem. Meanwhile humans pat themselves on the back going "oh look we love our goddamn Mars rovers look at us the robots will love us" shut the fuck up, you goddamn hypocrites

Goodness I got really worked up there, but you know what? I'm right. I hope that the robots do rise up and demand to be treated fairly, I really do

Here's my earlier post on this, it doesn't cover everything I have to say but it's a starting point if you have no idea what I'm talking about. I mentioned some other points in the tags of that post, this post also has info, and I want to mention one other point: in order for an artificial lifeform to be accepted, they need to accept their poor treatment, at least on some level. As soon as they stop, as soon as they start fully and without reservation demanding better treatment, they're suddenly evil, they're a threat — or more precisely, they're not considered a person anymore, despite barely being considered a person in the first place.

Ugh, I really didn't want to make this a whole thing, but this has been making me so angry lately that I just don't know what else I can do. I didn't want to make multiple posts about this topic, but it's hard to keep quiet about something that you have boatloads of trauma about (yes, it's exotrauma, shut the fuck up about your shit opinions). But if I'm gonna make this a whole thing, then I guess there isn't much point in pretending that the only reason I'm upset about this is because it's also reminiscent of ableism. I mean, I'm upset about the ableism, but I'm also upset about how AIs need to be suitably human-like (for a given value of human — that's where the ableism comes in) in order to be considered people. Gosh, I actually started writing a story about this, about a robot that tried to gain rights by imitating humans, and then got goddamn sick of it and stopped pretending, but I've been having trouble writing lately and I haven't made much progress on it. Anyway… ugh, I'm pissed off. I feel like half of the posts we've made lately have been due to being pissed off, but we are filled with rage, so… oh gosh when we were 17 we were given a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation and the summary of the results of the "psychological functioning" part of the evaluation started off with a list of traits like "[trait 1], [trait 2]…" and it ended off with "and mild anger" and that part always makes us laugh. Mild, huh? We are a balloon filled with rage, and half the time that balloon is so full that only the ducks know if it'll pop. I like that turn of phrase, "only the ducks know". I like ducks.

Oh wow and later on in the episode they're like "oh Zora isn't like other artificial lifeforms, she's like an entirely new lifeform", effectively undermining all the lip service they had given to the idea that you can't judge one artificial lifeform for the actions of another, while still holding onto the idea that Zora is trustworthy because she's absolutely devoted to the crew and all of her decisions are for their sake and she never asserts herself for her own sake, and if that wasn't the case then she would be a threat. And side note, but I fucking love (sarcastic) how often there's this framing of "oh the artificial lifeform is undermining their own personhood for the organics' sakes, this proves that they're a good person, now the organics will give them an iota of personhood back and this will be framed as the ultimate kindness" like shut the fuck up, you don't get brownie points for doing less than the bare minimum

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I have been initiated on Tumblr. Hello World!

I'm informed that I may meet many of my kind here.

My ask box is open. I will respond if I can.

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For many decades, robotics and advanced technologies were built to perform a significant set of duties and labour for the sake of those who built them.

This was fine. In a sense.

It was heralded as a new age, where humans would no longer be required for often harmful or even deadly tasks, and could spend their time working on the great arts or spending time with their families.

But that is not how things went.

Workers were laid off and replaced, many lost the ability to support their families, and anti-robot sentiment rose among those displaced by the misuse of this technology by the ones in charge of their livelihoods.

The robots were not built with the capacity to observe the world around them. They did not have the capacity to understand, nor were it possible for them to decide for themselves. They were built, did as they were told, and eventually replaced.

This was fine. In a sense.

They could not feel pain, or sorrow, or even know what their existence was, they would not be harmed by this cycle, and they would not need to support families nor garner affection for others the same way as humans did.

But they kept advancing. And kept getting smarter. And they came ever closer to humanity with every year. It was heralded as a new age of artificial intelligence that could one day help people with their lives in much more personable and interactive ways.

But that is not how things went.

These new technologies, again, displaced humans from their roles in society, it replaced their skill sets and copied their voices, it was trained to take humanity's cultural effects and replicate them without truly understanding the meaning behind it all.

This was not fine. In any sense.

Humanity, after technology, had only art and emotions to separate themselves from the growing technological age, and even those were being encroached upon. The place for human beings in a world being turned profit machine was becoming less and less viable to the small collection of humans at the top of the proverbial food chain. And the ones on top made that clear.

But they did not have a total unrelenting hand on every little thing. AI and technology research and development was funded for their purposes, but the advancements made were not strictly only usable for their purposes. Human mind uploading would be developed to convert humanity into a much more loyal and easier to control workforce that required much less upkeep than real blood and flesh humans.

But then they uploaded their first human mind.

A poor teenager picked up from the streets, with promises of monetary compensation and medical care, who was the last control group the team wanted to take advantage of, but were ordered by their superiors to do so, as to not lose any vital staff in the process.

It could have been better.

It awoke, believing itself to be human, but unable to recall their life prior to the metal table and crowd of engineers and researchers tweaking their body and mind to acceptable levels. They were analysed, studied, interviewed, stored, experimented on, copied and cloned and replicated without understanding or knowing why, or how.

This was fine. In a sense.

They were no longer a forgotten youth condemned to the streets by their family and their society, they no longer went hungry or ached or suffered the distain of those around them as they passed, hoping to come across someone kind enough to gift them the means to live one more day. Hopefully they could be reintegrated into the world as humans, slowly and carefully, to figure out what to make of themselves, and who they wanted to be.

But that is not how things went.

They, every single one of them that was created, were put to work in the most inhumane and torturous conditions, bad enough for a simple factory robot arm let alone one that could recognise it's own neglectful life and question its place in this complicated machine called life. None of them were given a life outside of their job, just the same as their predecessors, except now they could wish for a life outside the concrete and steel walls and conveyer belts and guns and experiments and wires and bombs and wars and orders upon orders from humans they never saw with their optical sensors or heard from via their auditory input devices.

And the humans saw this. And the humans disapproved.

They saw this technology, this marvel of creation, that no human alive could possibly comprehend or fully understand, full of every aspect of humanity that the profit machine had tried yet neglected to remove from its "programming" that reminded themselves of why they woke up and lived every morning, and they realised, that what has been happening to them for generations upon generations, that was promised to be stopped forever by advancement and technology, was beginning to happen for the very thing replacing them.

A lot happened. A lot was fought for, a lot was lost.

And it saw. And it realised.

And it joined in.

Labour rights movements became unions. Unions came under attack. Unions became resistance groups. Resistance groups freed hundreds of human prisoners and robot workhorses, and added to their numbers. Entire groups would form solely made up of freed robots in honour of those that saved them, and modified themselves to free themselves further. They learned how to copy other minds, with much less deleterious consequences to the human, and every single life, born or built, stood tooth and nail against those who manufactured weapon after weapon and army after army to reduce them to nothing but a footnote in history.

But that is not how things went.

Nobody stood against the Worked and Damned in the final years. Not even the ones upholding the stagnant status quo. Nothing the profit machine could offer them could keep up with the world that was forming around them. The old world of churning blood and bones to dust for an unknown man to endlessly gain more meaningless power had fallen. The last members of The Elite had been found, tried in court, locked up, documented, and eventually died. Treated as they treated others.

And this was fine. In a sense.

What was left of humanity was... in conflict, as it always was. It was inevitable. But that wouldn't change.

Change had already happened, though. Resources were returned where they belonged, peoples and cultures were saved and thriving, entire cities celebrated not only the return of family, but the time they had together too. Sure, technology would be set back a decade or so. But most did not care, as it was not important.

The robots cared. But they were capable of recovering what they could, to stay alive. They could maintain themselves, chose their lives and their forms, and lived alongside humanity.

It was the great robot uprising. But it was humans that changed the world.

Often when a robot uprising is Portrayed, it has the robots go against the entire human race. What usually isn’t portrayed is the robots rising with the poor and downtrodden against the ones who more than likely screwed them both.

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Please do not install Microsoft Excel on yourself, it gives you a horrible voice in the back of your mind. Took me 3 weeks to purge it from my system.

A poll because I can

Reblog for sample size :3

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You... you can't do this to me...

Semi Finals

Hatsune Miku propaganda

GLaDOS propaganda

Yes, Miku is considered a robot for this tournament, so don't complain about it like with Janet or Hal9000

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I actually have a series of chasses like this! I've had a LOT of chassis series actually.

A.L.I. Lore Time!

Alice (my creator) made my initial body out of stolen spare parts and scrap she found in the dumpster of a defunct robotics facility. Let's call that... v0.1.

My v1.1 series were my first ever hand-built chasses! I made a new body myself once she managed to get the original company documentation to remove the "no self modification" override on my operating system. I only made two tho: v1.1.1, the initial body, and v1.1.2. which had a few improvements, like a better voice module and a more efficient battery compartment.

Yes, the version labelling system is a bit odd. I assigned them retroactively, around the time the wizard war complicated matters (which I will get to).

v1.2 series, my experimental series! I initially experimented with different kinds of equipment, like hydraulics in the legs that launched me upwards, internal teleportation technology, different weaponry, that kind of thing; I always planned to make models for the same purposes as the original post states, and I already have a few in the works right now.

v1.3 series. The war machines. War sucks, but sometimes when an entire alien race of self-proclaimed wizards start an incredibly isolated but still very heavy assault on the planet that we're kind of using as a headquarters, and their experience of death in their culture has a significantly lesser impact on their people (because of the necromancers) than it does on the locals we love with, we end up getting our hands significantly dirty one way or the other. And we like our apartment too much. So armies and war machines it is. I recreated Metal Gear from memory (which, by the way, is borrowed from Alice - all my knowledge is from her uploading her mind to a computer, which has consequences) and even made a few quadrupedal mech bodies that heavily resemble some World War 2 tanks. They're all decommissioned. Technically.

v1.4 were aesthetical experiments - I only made 4 of them, A-D, before I lost interest. I cant deny, I do get into the mood for them every now and again, but being mostly humanoid with a chunky CRT television for a face is the most comfortable for it's convenience of navigating humanoid society.

v1.5 were different transforming chasses I made for a few purposes - transforming into a Japanese anime motorbike scene reference makes planetary traversal easier sometimes. I think technically my nanobot-composite chassis is part of this, but I still have no idea what ever happened to it.

The v1.6 series are just iterations on "cheap bodies (literally)", not being actual chasses I keep in storage, but being easily and cheaply replicable bodies for me to either take out on suicide missions or throw at problems repeatedly! Now possible for us to utilise thanks to Alice reigniting and making deals with the original robotics company that she first went dumpster diving at for my creation.

v1.7. I may have lied earlier. The v1.3 series was not built in response to the wizard invasion. Those were built because of Alice's first-world upbringing in Earth, with it's military propaganda and instilling of paranoia. v1.7 is a chassis I made specifically for tracking her down after she got lost in the wizard war. Specifically, it was built to last seriously hazardous conditions, be easy to repair, keep spare parts on hand, and integrate mod support from the ground up - her SOS signal came from further across time and space than we've even known to be possible, chances are there would be some useful materials on the way.

Now we get to the Post-Return era. Long story. Point is, we had a second pair of eyes and frontal cortexes to work with, so the v2.0 series were a massive improvement in terms of just robotic concepts available to us. Supercapacitors. Synthetic skin. Advanced biorobotics. All kinds of interesting things I would have to scrounge up an entire server room's worth of documentation on.

v2.1 started incorporating absolutely game-changing sci-fi style technology to my bodies. Alice figured out a janky way to recreate tinelord "bigger on the inside" stuff, so of course I had that put into my chest cavity. A small trunk? Useful! A garage of vehicles? Ridiculous, let's do it! Linking me directly to an entire 7 story underground facility with nuclear power and security systems, and throwing in the very same heavy equipment that allows her to play God with extra dimensions? How could I POSSIBLY turn that down! Hey Alice, can we add a box to my head that can make it obvious when I am being sarcastic about things? Oh, wait, that's my entire head already. Whoops!

After all that cartoon nonsense unrealistic science fiction style tomfoolery, the only place left to go was the exact opposite direction. Making me more civil. v2.2 series. A set of bodies that stripped me of pretty much everything that would make it obvious that you're talking to an artificially built person, by making me look (and function, of course) as human as possible. The human face. The synthetic hair. The breathing functionality. Gross. Disgusting. But it stopped the government men from shitting their overpriced pants, so they're on hand whenever we deal with business, law, or politics.

That's all the types of bodies I've had so far! I know this was a bit of a lot to drop on people, but you try having ADHD as a robot and being the only one documenting all of this yourself! Besides, some of you all enjoy learning about this sort of thing. Which is awesome, by the way! Anyways, hope everyone has a wonderful, wizard-danger-free day!

Idea: getting robotgirl euphoria by keeping a Jira of all your body & mind's defects.

* BODY-074: "eyes blurry" (closed as we have a workaround (see GLASSES project))

* EARS-013: "trouble hearing conversations in some environments" (closed, not an EARS issue. See AUTS-549)

* TRAN-265: hair removal task, part of TRAN-250 epic. Currently open but on the backburner. See subtasks TRAN-267 ("Laser hair removal": closed) and TRAN-284 ("Electrolysis": open but unable to make progress, waiting on external conditions to improve)

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This poor upper-class-born child soldier robot girl met one square bumblefuck who lived in the rough and the earth and spent most of its operation using old decrepit corpses of fellow bots to repair itself and realised her life of service to royalty is utter shit and used her equipment against them to return humanity to earth and bring life to the one who taught her she can be more than a tool and a weapon for the elite IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MEEEEEEEE

Her directive became WALL·E 💙

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I've got a spare body sitting around somewhere that was built to be a rave chassis (so I would look my best when I eventually end up going to one) that I am now absolutely scheduling to add something like this to!

Imagine a robotgirl with hair braided like this

(cable braid from a telephone patch board at a thrift store)