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Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tordotcom)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …

I had forgotten how great some of the asides were, like I remembered a generally snarky tone but the line about "Mensah underestimated my ability to ignore humans, but I appreciated the thought" cracked me up.

#MurderbotDiaries #ReRead

We really got the computer-human relationship all wrong: it should be a model of consent, rather than about restraining bolts, governor modules, or the Three Laws of Robotics

I was thinking about this excellent speech by Martha Wells on her Murderbot diaries being stories of bodily autonomy and slavery, and about the fantastic video on The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars by Pop Culture Detective.
https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2UrB7zepo

Martha Wells spells out how wrong the Three Laws of Robotics are in stipulating a subservient relationships for robots to sacrifice themselves on behalf of humans, built around fears or assumptions that robots would inherently act to harm humans (or not act to save humans) and that therefore robots should put humans before themselves.



I'm really enjoying The series by . They're about a Security Android that gains sentience, names itself Murderbot, & keeps its sentience a secret as it only wants to watch soap operas while staying out of the human affairs that it keeps getting dragged into.

I'm reading book 2, Artificial Condition, & I already like it better than the 1st book in the series. This one has a better sense of its dark humor than the first which I find endearing.

Super: Apple bringt die "Murderbot Diaries" der bekannten SciFi-Autorin Martha Wells als Serie auf TV+. In der Hauptrolle: Alexander Skarsgård. Da werde ich vorher noch die Bücher lesen.
Wenn diese Serie so gut wie Silo wird, dann freue ich mich schon riesig darauf!

https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2023/12/apple-tv-lands-murderbot-with-emmy-award-winner-alexander-skarsgrd-set-to-star-in-and-executive-produce-new-series-from-academy-award-nominees-chris-and-paul-weitz/