Now We Are All Toasters
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"It is regarded as the ultimate personal intrusion, the most intimate form of trespass... But if an AI were to consent to the process, and find a willing practitioner..." That is...powerful, and horrible. Her experiences during war were so horrible that she invited Corpse Witch to *rape* her in order to lock them away. Well done, Jeph. And man, that hurts.
Or in order to change who Bubbles was overall ("large scale, gross manipulation"). I'm not sure which is worse.
The last place we want to end up in QC, though, is going toaster shopping.
It's a seasonal Handel reference ... "all we, like toasters, have gone astray"
yaaaaay universe building!
"You see, I used to be a toaster. But it all got too much... all that bread, burnt then eaten... it haunts me. No one ever asked if I wanted to be a toaster."
you could forget all the bad memories of war...
Carbon Nanotubes
Sounds very Asimovian. I'm sold.
I always got the impression that Asimov's robots could have their memories rewritten in any way by an expert, the only limitation was that basic Three Laws behaviour couldn't be bypassed...