Yeah. I would buy some later retcon about how murderbots in general
are made. The book strongly suggests that all murderbots have
consciousness and personality without agency, which I'm not 100% sure
I believe. Murderbot could easily be unreliable on that point. But if
they do, that rasies all sorts of awful questions that Murderbot and
by extension the book seemed pretty uninterested in. One reason the
Newitz book is such a great comparison is that the first half is bot
POV with an equivalent of a governor module, and the second half is
the same POV without the governor. And it is fascinating how this bot
has to basically rebuild itself -- herself, she eventually decides --
from nearly the ground up.
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Yeah. I would buy some later retcon about how murderbots in general are made. The book strongly suggests that all murderbots have consciousness and personality without agency, which I'm not 100% sure I believe. Murderbot could easily be unreliable on that point. But if they do, that rasies all sorts of awful questions that Murderbot and by extension the book seemed pretty uninterested in. One reason the Newitz book is such a great comparison is that the first half is bot POV with an equivalent of a governor module, and the second half is the same POV without the governor. And it is fascinating how this bot has to basically rebuild itself -- herself, she eventually decides -- from nearly the ground up.