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LinkesAuge
Sep 7, 2011

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Pain, discomfort, and the desire for the external world to be different is all that separates the robots, and us as well, from being mindless algorithms that just do data processing.

I'd argue pain, discomfort and so on are just one layer of data processing / a simply more sophisticated algorithm.

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LinkesAuge
Sep 7, 2011

drunken officeparty posted:

They seem extremely commited to reusing the same host bodies and brainboxes over and over for 30 years. Apple doesn't even support last years Iphone models anymore.

Well you also (hopefully) don't gently caress your Iphone. ;)
One reason I could see for keeping them the same is human attachment => People (their customers) get attached to them and thus provide another reason to return.

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