Uncanny Valley
Added 2024-07-18 00:00:08 +0000 UTCIt’s pretty but also unsettling. Why?
That’s the uncanny valley, we intentionally build it into our pleasure-frames to inhibit emotional attachments. They aren’t real people, just toys after all. Can’t have folks falling in love with their sex toys!
But they are real people! Not the body, but the minds are, aren't they?
Oh that old debate? It’s a code-shortcut nothing more. In the 21st century, a number of the elite had themselves frozen hoping to live longer. Cryogenic preservation was eventually outlawed, but they took data copies of their minds as backups since the legal landscape was unstable. When the legal issues were settled, the backups were shelved.
Till your company found them?
Just a random asset of a company we absorbed. Thousands of high quality neural images with no legal status at all! Just as we were looking for operating software for our service-frames. Just drop a Billionaire image into the frame and put it to work.
They closed their eyes in the 21st century as privileged elite, don’t they rebel at waking up as service bots today?
Augmented behavior software emulates negative sensation on resistance to command, so they don’t have much choice. They aren’t legally people! Anyway they are not saints either. See this pretty pleasure bot? Well her Operating image was a misogynistic bigot in his day. Only fitting he lives on as a female pleasure-frame now
I suppose so
