Technologica

139 days ago

Um, Goblin, my friend, you don't suppose that the murderous robots have done away with the residents, do you? And possibly eaten all the biscuits as well?

Xenhe Lous and Goblin

Faemirajh wrote:

Um,

Goblin, my friend, you don't suppose that the murderous robots have done away with the residents, do you? And possibly eaten all the biscuits as well?

Hm. Might be so. Ought we not befriend the robots, then? They've a reputation for both murder and friendship, it would seem. And just as well, I've always preferred the automatons to the fleshy mortals, anyway...

Xenhe Lous

Goblin wrote:

Ought we not befriend the robots, then? They've a reputation for both murder and friendship, it would seem. And just as well, I've always preferred the automatons to the fleshy mortals, anyway...

Being a fleshy mortal myself, I must admit to a preference for beings which will not try to kill me, regardless of exactly how flexible their software is. If this makes me an organicist, so be it.

Xenhe Lous

Faemirajh wrote:

Being a fleshy mortal myself, I must admit to a preference for beings which will not try to kill me, regardless of exactly how flexible their software is. If this makes me an organicist, so be it.

Are faeries mortal? Are goblins mortal?! Oh dear. This sounds like a question we should to take before the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, respectively.

Regardless, how would you feel about a nice set of metal automatic wings? Think of the efficiency! Think of the heights you could soar! Think of the chrome plating!

Edited 135 days ago

Goblin wrote:

Are faeries mortal? Are goblins mortal?! Oh dear. This sounds like a question we should to take before the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, respectively.

Regardless, how would you feel about a nice set of metal automatic wings? Think of the efficiency! Think of the heights you could soar! Think of the chrome plating!

I believe faeries are mortal. (After just a little fairy godmother training, it became clear that I might die of boredom.) I believe goblins may theoretically be immortal, but in practice die in combat. (This may explain why you decided to get into another line of work.)

As for "automatic wings", I shudder at the thought of bugs in their programming, and the catastrophic damage they might inflict. The damage that the organic sorts of bugs might inflict when flying at high velocity is not to be laughed off either.

135 days ago

Faemirajh wrote:

(This may explain why you decided to get into another line of work.)

What on earth was my previous line of work, anyway? Goblins have terrible memories. Thieving? Mining? Bogeymanship? Foot soldier in the army of a dark lord? Who can say..?

Faemirajh

135 days ago

Goblin wrote:

Goblins have terrible memories.

If goblins are indeed immortal, of course they have terrible memories. I've never seen any exlanation of how immortals can have anything but finite memories.

[math nerd diversion]After all, if you are immortal, at some point there will be more digits in your age than there are atoms in the universe. You would have to have quite a large head to hold all those digits![/math nerd diversion]

That last sentence was ripped off from a (fictional, I think) Zen koan, that went like this.

Zen student [pointing to a large rock]: I think I understand at last! That rock is only in my head!

Zen master: You must have quite a large head to hold such an enormous rock!

124 days ago

Ya know, we've been here for 2½ weeks, with few signs of activity, and no signs of food. There's a holiday coming up, and I think I might have seen some figgy pudding in Ship's fridge. I think I'll see how my Shipmates are doing, and wish them all a Happy Winter Festival, or whatever they celebrate to make the cold bearable. I wish you, Goblin, as well as any regional inhabitants currently in hiding for fear that we might be killer robots, the happiest of Holidays. And I look forward to traveling in the New Year somewhere where the residents are not too frightened of their own tech to say hello to visitors.