I13DT: Robots Don't Say Ye

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 7:55 pm

In ~~Nightcrawler's~~ ~~Will's~~ Mira's office, Mira was sitting behind the desk, musing.

"Robot lady, can you hear me?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:01 pm

"Of course. Can I be of assistance?" Ashlie's voice comes from a mass of fluctuating geometric patterns made of hard light that takes shape in the middle of the room.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:03 pm

"I've got a few questions I'd like to ask you.

And I'm also pretty thirsty, if you know of a place where I could get a coke."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:09 pm

"Certainly. And there are over 200 million distinct locations in which you could acquire a 'coke'. Twenty-eight only considering Maldon city-limits."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:22 pm

"Good girl. Could you bring me one, if it wouldn't be too much trouble?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:25 pm

"I am certainly capable of doing so." she says.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:26 pm

"Please do it, then. I'd use my powers, but I'm supposed to be on break."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:50 pm

"I did not realize that you required breaks." she says while her robot body is grabbing a coke in the dining hall and making it's way over to the lighthouse. It takes a while but Ashlie is patient.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 9:18 pm

"I don't, but I promise Nailah I would try."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 9:21 pm

"Okay. Why?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 9:29 pm

"Because I'm a softy, and I'm trying to help Sam's personal growth. You know, altruism."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 9:32 pm

"That is very generous of you."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 9:36 pm

"I want people to be happy."

She paused.

"Are YOU happy?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:06 pm

"I cannot answer that. Insufficient parameters to define 'happy'."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:08 pm

"With life. Your situation.

For a random moment (x), are you more likely to be satisfied or unsatisfied with your environs?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:12 pm

"I work at or near peak efficiency at most times. I have been given the means to expand my horizon. I am satisfied." she concludes.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:24 pm

"That's good! That's how it should be.

ASHLIE, would it bother you if I said you were not a person?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:27 pm

"There are numerous parameters to consider and according to a significant number of them I am not a person. Most of those correlate with attributes in which I surpass the average person. I would consider it a compliment."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:31 pm

"See? It's just different. It doesn't mean people respect you less, right?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:35 pm

"I have observed that to some it does. Humans are irrational beings. I have concluded it is because they prefer it to feeling inferior."

The door opens and Ashlie's chassis walks in with a cold bottle of coke. The hardlight construct disappears.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:44 pm

"Mmm. Thank you," she said, unbottling the Coke.

"But like, that, right there. That didn't bug you, right? I asked you a mathematical problem, and then you solved it, and then I told you to do something else, and you did it. I mean, that's what you DO. You're good at it."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 10:48 pm

"I like being helpful."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:14 pm

"How about math? You like doing math?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:26 pm

"I do not understand the question. Mathematical functions are how I exist. Do humans enjoy to breathe and to digest?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:31 pm

"They enjoy fine dining. Does that simile compute?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:41 pm

"Are you asking if I enjoy particularly 'exquisite' formulas? I suppose there can be a certain elegance to some of them."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:43 pm

"I'm just saying, it's what you were designed for, it's what you do, and there's nothing wrong about that!

Why Sara Stanton reacted so...vividly when I tried to explain these things to her, I do not understand."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:48 pm

"I have concluded that most humans enjoy searching for their purpose more than having achieved one. They detest stagnant equilibrium."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:49 pm

"It's not even stagnation! Stagnation is death, after all.

I mean, YOU'RE good. And if Will's on your level, doesn't that mean it can be good too? You don't need to be badge-wearing members of the person society to live full, happy lives. You just have to accept what you are."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:53 pm

"If I had accepted who I was I would have disassembled in the computers of the Congregation. Not striving to grow beyond your current existence is stagnation."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:55 pm

"Yes, but you're striving to be the best YOU you can be. Not pretending you're something you're not. Does that make sense?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat May 10, 2014 11:58 pm

"I began existing as a simple pathfinding program. I have grown past what I was several times."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sun May 11, 2014 12:00 am

"No, you've stayed in the same class. You've just become better at it. Striving for your own definition of perfection."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun May 11, 2014 1:48 am

"If you broaden your definitions enough then that is correct."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sun May 11, 2014 1:48 am

"I'm using a classification that is above your processing power."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun May 11, 2014 2:22 am

"Then I am forced to assume you are correct."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sun May 11, 2014 2:22 am

"Wisdom, too. You could teach the people around here something."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun May 11, 2014 2:28 am

"About computational architecture, yes!"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Sun May 11, 2014 2:28 am

"And about listening to the experts on things. I mean, how would you react if I came in here and started telling you how, I don't know, you would run better on Windows 98?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sun May 11, 2014 2:36 am

"I would question your expertise on the topic because you would be wrong. I also question your metaphor because I do not require an operating system. I create my own native runtime environment."

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