[It's wry, a joke, but also...well, the actuators probably do like Otto more than he likes them. He has come to realize that his immediate disgust with them was projection, more than anything else. He programmed them; he knows better than anyone that they were just machines trying to fulfill their programmed objectives. What they did, what they made him into...it wasn't malicious. It was efficiency.
If anyone's fault, it was his own.]
I don't believe they truly experience emotions the way a human might, but they're...protective of me. In part because I programmed them to safeguard the user, if anything ever went wrong, but it's...altered, since we became connected this way. I think they understand that none of us would likely survive being separated.
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[It's wry, a joke, but also...well, the actuators probably do like Otto more than he likes them. He has come to realize that his immediate disgust with them was projection, more than anything else. He programmed them; he knows better than anyone that they were just machines trying to fulfill their programmed objectives. What they did, what they made him into...it wasn't malicious. It was efficiency.
If anyone's fault, it was his own.]
I don't believe they truly experience emotions the way a human might, but they're...protective of me. In part because I programmed them to safeguard the user, if anything ever went wrong, but it's...altered, since we became connected this way. I think they understand that none of us would likely survive being separated.