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I might even manage two posts this weekend
Apr. 6th, 2012 10:57 am...because there isn't a great deal on, and I have another one pretty much written up with Wot I Dun, and lovely ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xandratheblue was all retro and got me roped into one of those Five Questions businesses from days of yore.
1/A mad scientists give you to chance to die by super-evolved nuclear owl or nano-kitten-bots. Which do you choose?
Swarm of nanobots has to be quicker and less gory than being snacked on by an owl. Also, they would probably make the remains into something more useful than radioactive pellets.
2/Which velvet jacket?
ALL THE VELVET JACKETS. But I think the midnight blue one without the buttonhole is probably the most versatile.
3/Would you ever have sex with a robot? Would it depend on how much like a 'real' human it was, or you prefer it not to look like a real human?
Well, I wouldn't want to have sex with Robbie the Robot, but on the other hand something that was trying too hard to pass could get a bit uncanny valley (and wouldn't that be the perfect name for an android orifice?). But somewhere between the two could be very attractive. Or, of course, a fully convincing android a la Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner.
(I have previously mentioned the Björkbots in the 'All is Full of Love' video in this context. Turns out it hasn't aged too well, but I definitely wasn't the only person who was rather taken with that clip at the time)
4/If you were a girl for a day, what would you do? Would it make a difference whether you were a beautiful girl or not?
I imagine the main difference would be that, were I not beautiful, my day's activities - while broadly similar in character - would be undertaken solo.
5/Would you really want to rule the world?
Well, obviously there's part of me that would like my face carved on the Moon, but really? I think I'd rather be a shadowy Grand Vizier-type figure, pulling strings from behind the scenes but still able to go out in public, and without having to do the boring everyday stuff. More than that, even, I'd probably prefer someone actually civilised, like Iain M Banks' Culture, to come along and stop the self-destructive brats known as 'humanity' from playing with sockets and hot surfaces. I just want to be able to tootle around reading, and seeing people, and sitting in fields, without having to put up with mediaeval crap like work, and preventable diseases spread by religion, and the environment getting chewed up by fools. But if events fell such that accomplishing that were possible by way of my going all Authority on six billion morons' collective arse in the meantime, then I'd consider it pretty much a moral responsibility.
xandratheblue was all retro and got me roped into one of those Five Questions businesses from days of yore.1/A mad scientists give you to chance to die by super-evolved nuclear owl or nano-kitten-bots. Which do you choose?
Swarm of nanobots has to be quicker and less gory than being snacked on by an owl. Also, they would probably make the remains into something more useful than radioactive pellets.
2/Which velvet jacket?
ALL THE VELVET JACKETS. But I think the midnight blue one without the buttonhole is probably the most versatile.
3/Would you ever have sex with a robot? Would it depend on how much like a 'real' human it was, or you prefer it not to look like a real human?
Well, I wouldn't want to have sex with Robbie the Robot, but on the other hand something that was trying too hard to pass could get a bit uncanny valley (and wouldn't that be the perfect name for an android orifice?). But somewhere between the two could be very attractive. Or, of course, a fully convincing android a la Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner.
(I have previously mentioned the Björkbots in the 'All is Full of Love' video in this context. Turns out it hasn't aged too well, but I definitely wasn't the only person who was rather taken with that clip at the time)
4/If you were a girl for a day, what would you do? Would it make a difference whether you were a beautiful girl or not?
I imagine the main difference would be that, were I not beautiful, my day's activities - while broadly similar in character - would be undertaken solo.
5/Would you really want to rule the world?
Well, obviously there's part of me that would like my face carved on the Moon, but really? I think I'd rather be a shadowy Grand Vizier-type figure, pulling strings from behind the scenes but still able to go out in public, and without having to do the boring everyday stuff. More than that, even, I'd probably prefer someone actually civilised, like Iain M Banks' Culture, to come along and stop the self-destructive brats known as 'humanity' from playing with sockets and hot surfaces. I just want to be able to tootle around reading, and seeing people, and sitting in fields, without having to put up with mediaeval crap like work, and preventable diseases spread by religion, and the environment getting chewed up by fools. But if events fell such that accomplishing that were possible by way of my going all Authority on six billion morons' collective arse in the meantime, then I'd consider it pretty much a moral responsibility.
