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Wetware Body: Bioshells, when inhabited by digisapiences. No more difficult than the opposite, or indeed putting biosapient minds in them, or digisapiences in cybershells. Also, not known for any side effects; a digisapience in a bioshell is no more emotional than it would have been anyway, although it may take
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Tron Lines: Averted for most pieces of technology: they are kind of pointless on their own, and inefficiently power-wasteful. (And if a few status displays and such adopt a similar look when there is a purpose for it… well, what of it?) They are, however, a fashion (a data glimmer;
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Second Law My Ass: I hadn’t actually written anything for this one – I’m not sure it existed when I made the relevant pass – but in the light of our last trope, I should probably address it. I should probably point out that while that last trope is averted,
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Three Laws Compliant: Averted in every possible way. Firstly, for the vast majority of robots and artificial intelligences – which have no volition – they’re essentially irrelevant; an industrial robot doesn’t make the sort of ethical choices which the Three Laws are intended to constrain. You can just program it
digisapience
In today’s not-a-gotcha, someone questions why digisapiences (i.e., sophont AIs) exist at all, citing this passage of Stross via Zompist.com – We clearly want machines that perform human-like tasks. We want computers that recognize our language and motivations and can take hints, rather than requiring instructions enumerated in