![]() |
![]() |
#41 |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
|
![]()
"My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?"
-Lt. Col T.C. McQueen, USMC |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#42 | |
Join Date: Dec 2007
|
![]() Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#43 |
Join Date: Jul 2008
|
![]()
They stick SAIs on AKVs? ...Why would you do that? An NAI is probably enough, and an LAI is overqualified.
__________________
I don't know any 3e, so there is no chance that I am talking about 3e rules by accident. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#44 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#45 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
|
![]() Quote:
If you have a society where the public masses can or will influence the government, this is likely to be aborted before it even starts. In a society where the rulers aren't influenced by the governed - it will be a venue they believe is worth pursuing. The biggest question that rises to the fore in my mind is "how much technological infrastructure is required to start this up, and then maintain it?" One could presume that the bioroids can be created/conditioned to be loyal beyond belief. As a praetorian guard, they would be wonderful right? If given the ability to reproduce, or granted an extended lifetime (why make it obsolete after only a few years of productivity - make it worth every penny it costs to make despite BLADE RUNNER. The reproductivity aspect is designed to make production costs even cheaper right? Ultimately you get a two class system. Even worse (from certain perspectives), you've now created a compepitor for the same resources (food for energy or a need for biochemical reactions to sustain life - even if the food stuff isn't the same as what humans require). If you go that route, then you need to manufacture their food needs as a consumable - one that humans likely can't or won't eat. Gotta wonder though... Would bioroids be largely immune to human predators in the form of germs? |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#46 |
GURPS FAQ Keeper
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
|
![]()
They can get Immunity to Disease, yes, if you want them to. Though by the time you're TL10 and have TL10 wet nano, which makes natural diseases largely irrelevant, I don't know why you'd bother.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#47 |
Custom User Title
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Indianapolis, IN
|
![]()
Well the people that make and sell bioroids probably don't want an unlimited amount of them running around. That cuts sales. And we did that to the slave importers prior to the Civil War. We had enough chattel slaves that they could reproduce to meet the needs of future production. Every slave owner becomes a slave seller. A little planned obsolescence is good from the manufacturers' point of view - tight market and all that. If the setting postulates that the bioroids are a government answer to much needed manpower then yes getting more years out is a good thing. How would your setting with reproduction of bioroids deal with needing to control the birthrate? Trim before or after?
__________________
Joseph Paul |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#48 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
|
![]()
The point is - if they're not genetically human, and their biochemistry isn't human, one would suspect that they're not going to be susceptible to human diseases. One wouldn't even have to engineer them for "Immunity to Disease" as such.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#49 |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
|
![]()
"Reproduction" of bioroids is biogenesis so you can control the availability of biogenesis tanks, encrypt the schematics, have intellectual property law, and use DRM technology to prevent reverse engineering.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#50 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
|
![]() Quote:
My point is that: 1) artificial labor that is exploitable (be it mechanical or biological based) means that the quality of life for the "non-exploitable" human beings is going to get worse. 2) if these things have sentience - and presumably free will, they're not going to be any more tractable than are human beings. In essence, they're going to be human beings conceptually speaking, with less rights than humans. The displaced humans will be hostile, idea of having perfect soldiers raises a whole new cesspit of issues. 3) if you have bioroid warriors without a shred of humanity in them, how will the humans deal with that issue? Telling your troops to open fire on civilians is one thing. Having troops easily willing to do just that, is another. With Bioroids capable of such behavior - how long will it be before the issues of war become something LARGER than war? By Larger than war, I'm talking about what amounts to genocidal emotions powering the war in the sense that Humans will feel that their replacements are now here (Bioroids) and the Bioroids conditioned to obey will continue to kill the humans they're ordered to kill. A war with no quarter. A war that will generate such overwhelming hatred that if the bioroid owners lose, will be a really bad result. If the bioroid side wins, then, every human being they eliminate, every job thei displace, every extra bioroid decanted will likely be seen as a sign that the POOR humanity are on their way out, and that the Rich Humanity only care about what amounts to slave labor doing their bidding. Might even cause the humans to adopt a "if you can't beat them, join them" mentality to where they know their very success in life depends on their being at least as good as the bioroids, if not better (or cheaper). |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Tags |
bio-tech, bioroids, ths |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|