So you want to be an automotan..

[Satans_Santa]

So you want to be a robot,
Hell, that's ok with me,
Just don't spoutin' around
All yir goddamn hypocracy,

Just tell me the truth - I'll grant you self-worth
Oh, what's that?  You're still obsessed with Kalie and Matt Dirth?

I don't give a goddamn about all the things you done,
show me what you are and I'll say, "That's a son of a son."
Is your life based on the Prestige
Or are you lookin' for Armageddon' pls,

This shit ain't over,
Til' I got a gun and a fuckin' hangover,
That would justify all the bad things I've done,
Oh, God help me, I'm just a son of a son.

(Freestyle lyrics on forum don't really don't that good, huh?) hah!

[Jasper]

Everyone is a robot, it's just up to us to decide how clever and enjoyable we are.

[B_M_W]

Everyone is a robot, it's just up to us to decide how clever and enjoyable we are.

I dissagree.

[AFK]

So you want to be a robot,
Hell, that's ok with me,
Just don't spoutin' around
All yir goddamn hypocracy,

Just tell me the truth - I'll grant you self-worth
Oh, what's that?  You're still obsessed with Kalie and Matt Dirth?

I don't give a goddamn about all the things you done,
show me what you are and I'll say, "That's a son of a son."
Is your life based on the Prestige
Or are you lookin' for Armageddon' pls,

This shit ain't over,
Til' I got a gun and a fuckin' hangover,
That would justify all the bad things I've done,
Oh, God help me, I'm just a son of a son.

(Freestyle lyrics on forum don't really don't that good, huh?) hah!

on the contrary, I think you and LHX should team up.  Also ECH once he becomes regular. 

[Jasper]

Everyone is a robot, it's just up to us to decide how clever and enjoyable we are.

I dissagree.

On grounds of defnitions, I suspect.  What parts do you disagree with and why, or else I can't really defend it.

[B_M_W]

Everyone is a robot, it's just up to us to decide how clever and enjoyable we are.

I dissagree.

On grounds of defnitions, I suspect.  What parts do you disagree with and why, or else I can't really defend it.

On the grounds that 1) I am a human and I'm neither a "worker" nor a slave, doing someone elses bidding, or at least if I can help it, and 2) because it sounds too much like that "biology is all little machines" creationist propaganda. The first point is dismissal of the arguement, and the second point is simply a feeling.

[Jasper]

I would say everything that makes decisions and carries them out is a robot, all somewhere on a spectrum of sophistication, makeup, and function.  Creationism is a conflationary argument and therefore irrelevant, and arguing an emotional standpoint = inferior.

[Jenne]

What did I hear the other day?  Oh, that humans had to re-engineer their biologies to do the industrial/sit-down work of today from our hunter/gather/agrarian pursuits of yesteryear.

That the more "robotic" and repetitive our motions were for work, the more we re-focused our brains to perform these actions over and over and over.

Damn but I forget where I heard this shit.  Feh.

[Jasper]

The robot I would have designed would be able to replicate, mutate, and have inheritability of traits.

'Nuff said.

[Cain]

Everyone is a robot, it's just up to us to decide how clever and enjoyable we are.

I dissagree.

On grounds of defnitions, I suspect.  What parts do you disagree with and why, or else I can't really defend it.

On the grounds that 1) I am a human and I'm neither a "worker" nor a slave, doing someone elses bidding, or at least if I can help it, and 2) because it sounds too much like that "biology is all little machines" creationist propaganda. The first point is dismissal of the arguement, and the second point is simply a feeling.

You may not be, but a hell of alot of people aspire to be.

When you're working in a dull, dead end job for 9 hours a day, where only basic motor functions are needed, you switch off and desire to switch off, because to do anything else brings you back to the mind numbing reality of what you are doing.  Then, when you get home, you need the habit of something else to take up your time and help you forget.  So you turn to TV and alcohol.

And the more you "live for the weekend" as so many people in such jobs do, the more you are just trying to blot out the meaningless of what you do to...well, survive, as this is hardly living.

[LMNO]

Also, remember RAW (PBUH) and his "robot" spiel in Illuminatus!

The imprinted and conditioned domesticated primate brain plays out it's little programs in a predictable, robotic manner.  Cf: The Machine,Ñ¢.

[B_M_W]

Everyone is a robot, it's just up to us to decide how clever and enjoyable we are.

I dissagree.

On grounds of defnitions, I suspect.  What parts do you disagree with and why, or else I can't really defend it.

On the grounds that 1) I am a human and I'm neither a "worker" nor a slave, doing someone elses bidding, or at least if I can help it, and 2) because it sounds too much like that "biology is all little machines" creationist propaganda. The first point is dismissal of the arguement, and the second point is simply a feeling.

You may not be, but a hell of alot of people aspire to be.

When you're working in a dull, dead end job for 9 hours a day, where only basic motor functions are needed, you switch off and desire to switch off, because to do anything else brings you back to the mind numbing reality of what you are doing.  Then, when you get home, you need the habit of something else to take up your time and help you forget.  So you turn to TV and alcohol.

And the more you "live for the weekend" as so many people in such jobs do, the more you are just trying to blot out the meaningless of what you do to...well, survive, as this is hardly living.

The biggests problem I had was with the word "everyone".

I was not dissagreeing that the actions and aspirations of a large portion of humanity tended in that direction.

[Jasper]

Bah, what I meant is obvious and I won't word everything I say to syntactic perfection for the benefit of pedantic nitpickery.

[Jenne]

You oughtta be used to it by now, tho, d00d.

[AFK]

I think I understand where BMW is coming from, and I tend to agree with him.  I know you don't like nitpickery but perhaps the better word to use is "robotic", adjective, as opposed to "robot", noun.  It may seem nitpickey, but really, there are two different meanings there.