Tips on role playing as a robot

[RogerBW]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

This seems to be something that was popular in your THS group, if I recall correctly. But I don't get why.
Robots have flaws. Humans have flaws. Robots should probably have a matter-off-fact/utilitarian approach to tradeoffs and necessities: yes, the oil needs to be replaced at such-and-such an inconvenient frequency, but there were reasons why the design ended up the way it did; likewise, humans are built by a hard-to-micromanage process of evolution and bioduplication, which resulted in some flaws. Scarcastising about that seems like a pettily human thing to do.

Some of this may have been the natural tendencies of the players (waves hand guiltily).

But actually it does make sense in TS, where there is such an easy alternative to hauling around all those bags of water and oxygen and other corrosive substances: just upload, get all the same experiences, live forever and travel much more cheaply, not to mention very much faster.

(Not interested in the philosophical arguments - this is a valid position to hold in the setting, though of course not the only one.)