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Here’s the comic on the SMBC website if you want to see the red button panel https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/golden-age
In a proper Heinlein novel, she should be excited about it, and possibly naked
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Pausing the plot of your mid-century sci-fi space exploration novel so that you can insert a screed about the moral goodness of beating your wife.
Honestly Star Trek TOS is pretty much like this, too.
You’re completely right but also I love Bones so what am I supposed to do.
these are boy androids
:crush: can I make the robots a sandwich?
we would, but we accidentally asked one of the robots to “go be a useless piece of shit somewhere else” and the robot took it literally but due to the way we setup the asimov rules, this robot has convinced others that they should be useless pieces of shit as well since this was a direct command so now you need to figure out through sheer logic and tenuous characterization which robot is the quirky one before you can ask one of them to fix dinner since they won’t do anything otherwise
Asimov are still great Torment Nexus books for understanding what “Computers do exactly what you tell them, whether you know what you’re telling them or not” and “Just because a computer is smart doesn’t mean it will think like you”. I’m sure there are lots since then, but Asimov’s three set up a simple framework for exploring the question of “How could we totally fuck up programming a robot in fun and frightening ways?”
Curious if the Soviet side of SF (eg Aelita) was much better in regards to this. Cultural conservatism is hard to shake in just decades.
Strugatsky brothers are one the the best-known Soviet SF writers, and one of the biggest critiques about their works was always “there’s almost no women in your books”. To which their honest reply was “We don’t know how to write women”. No actual misogyny, though. Just no important female characters.
Still, very good books. I’ve just finished the Noon cycle - a series about an utopian future where Communism won. Highly recommend it.
To which their honest reply was “We don’t know how to write women”. No actual misogyny, though. Just no important female characters
lmao honestly I respect that. Ideally they’d, you know, learn how to do that, but at least they didn’t bullshit.
