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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
Cheap, reliably SAI doesn't mix well with the rest of the setting, if you're trying for realism. You almost surely would not see cheap, reliable SAI and extensive use of bioroids, any more than you see a lot of horse-drawn carriages on the freeway with modern cars.
In fact, outside the controlled bounds of fiction, cheap, compact, reliable SAI is a setting breaker. Ghosting makes it worse. Nor is the legal/social block against xoxing terribly believable, it's just necessary for the setting to work.
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SAI isn't all that cheap in THS though. In fact, IIRC a bioroid is cheaper than SAI+shell intended to act in service jobs. And bioroids
are a fading technology now that SAI is on the rise. It's more proper to compare the bioroid-SAI coexistence of THS to the era of
early cars (with an interesting question of what TL11-TL12 biotech will offer and whether TL11-TL12 AI-tech will be available as soon as the hype predicts; after all, cold fusion has been two decades away for half a century, eh).