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"LOL how was I meant to know androids were your greatest fear"

Ho-Oh

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    So Shining reminded me of one of my greatest fears - humanised robots. Well, robots in general. idk, it's a childhood fear that still remains now... ANYWAY.

    What I was wondering was, imagine if you found out that robots were actually common and that one in every three humans were robots, or something along those lines... how would you react? Would you be afraid that they've gone undetected so long, maybe be more cautious around people, etc. Would you live life any differently? Aaand what'd you do if you found out YOU were one of the robots (I mean let's say there's gears and metal within you and that's what you think is bones but it isn't REALLY)? How would you feel? Share your thoughts!
     
    How would I feel... indifferent. The current reality won't change because of knowing something about it.
     
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    SURROGATES. OK NOT REALLY.

    I'd be ecstatic. I would embrace my new-found heritage, but try to live normally. I mean, if I was undetected for so long I can't be that different from everybody.
     
    I don't think I'd really care, honestly. I mean, I'm finding it hard to take this hypothetical seriously but I think overall I'd just be really interested in how it works, how to tell people apart, and how the AI is programmed. It would be fascinating, especially at first.

    Obviously if I'd grown up all this time and not noticed anything, it can't be that big a deal. Unless the robots are specifically integrating with society in order to catch humans off-guard one day. In which case it's not like I could do anything about it so oh well.
     
    Oh God the Dollhouse themes in this thread are just too much to bear

    I think, if I were one of the robots and I found this out, I wouldn't care all that much. It would be a bit of a bummer, but I'd had feelings and emotions and original thoughts and all the rest of it up until that point, right? So nothing would really change, but I guess the whole "I'm not a real boy" thing would be a shock to my heart facsimile at first. On the up side, no chance of disease! :D

    My first and only real concern as a human would be whether my friends or other unrelated loved ones were robots, and what that would mean to our relationship and if I could get past it. I'd have to find out how much it mattered and how much it influenced things. I wouldn't worry so much about my family, after all if I'm not a robot they can't be either :P
     
    As much as I'd love to say I'd keep calm, I'd probably freak out, since I'm rather paranoid and would fear a robot army. I'd barricade my door when I slept as much as I could, and I'd always have an EMP device on me or something, just in case. Otherwise, I'd just try to live life as normal, I guess?!?!

    If I WAS a robot, I'd first of all be really weirded out that my parents had lied to me for so long, but then I'd become a super hero. This scenario really reminds me of Victor Mancha from the Runaways series...

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    I'd want to find out if I was a robot. Then I'd want to know if I could do any special robot things like switch out parts of my body. I'd explore that fun stuff it is was possible, but if not then maybe just slowly get used to it. I'd want to know what the deal was with robots being everywhere though, regardless of whether I was one. Actually, especially if I was one.
     
    I don't think it would change anything in my life. I wouldn't suddenly have new assumptions on other people or humanity as a whole. If I lived my whole life so far without that knowledge and everything has been fine then nothing would end up changing after gaining that knowledge. I suppose if I found out I was a robot I would feel a little differently. It would be hard to comprehend at first, but in the end I could really only accept it.
     
    Wouldn't change a thing, except if I was an android myself I would definitely be checking to see if upgrades were available for me to make me smarter and get rid of my physical limitations.

    That would be admittedly cool, having issues like those disappear with a new part installed or a software update :P
     
    I'd certainly be interested to find out who among my circle of friends/family were actually robots (and, indeed, if I was one myself), but unless there's some sort of I, Robot/Philip K Dick conspiracy afoot, simply knowing that people you know and care about are robots shouldn't change the relationships that you have with them. Presumably they're advanced enough to be able to have emotions/empathy/whatever considering that you've turned out to be friends with them, so hopefully relationships wouldn't change. I dunno... if this actually happened I might be scared out of my mind, but looking at it from a distance, it's more interesting than scary.
     
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