LogFAQs > #937981824

ScritchOwl posted...

Heck using droids with simulated personalities is just asking for them to go rogue.

Worse - why give droids personalities at all? It's kind of established that they need their databases wiped periodically to keep from going too self-determinant, and people's willingness to do so (and to treat them like little more than furniture, excepting the main viewpoint characters) - and to use things like restraining bolts - pretty clearly indicates that no one considers droids to be actually "alive" in any meaningful way. So why not just give most of them virtual intelligence equal to the level required for them to fulfill their tasks, but not full artificial intelligence that mimics (or outright generates) personality?

It's pretty much the least moral possible scenario - it's making your tools self-aware enough to be literal slaves instead of just tools, when it isn't even necessary. It's like droid designers in the Star Wars universe are the most sadistic assholes ever. "Well, this translator robot is cool and all, but I just can't consider it a success unless we give it enough of a personality to be terrified all the time, and then we wipe its memory every few weeks just so it doesn't get uppity. I just can't get hard unless all our robots are living a torturous and tormented existence."
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