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[holeful]

Are fully sentient robots a normal thing where you're from, miss Grace?

[alteracion]

Yeah. They're awful.

[holeful]

Well, no wonder you're not impressed.

[He laughs and pops a segment of orange in his mouth.]
I've never seen a robot that advanced before, is all.

[alteracion]

You could always ask the Avatars if you could keep the parts.

[holeful]

[He shakes his head as he eats another orange slice.]

I wouldn't know what to do with them. I don't know anything about robot construction, I just think they're interesting.

[alteracion]

Because you're not used to the technology?

[holeful]

Aah. The sort of math I'm familiar with isn't that complex.

[alteracion]

... Math?

[holeful]

You know.... numbers and stuff?

[alteracion]

I know what math is, what's that got to do with robots?

[holeful]

Well, any robot capable of complex motion is going to need some sort of physics engine, and in a way, physics is just applied mathematics.

[alteracion]

Isn't it just its programming?

[ is programming math? maybe, but fuck if she knows ]

[holeful]

Sure, but all programming is based on logic and math. Especially for movement. A robot doesn't have a brain. It probably has cameras for eyes, and I have to assume it operates on some sort of xyz axis and so you'd need a lot of math to convert the desired movements based on visual data to hard numbers it can understand.

["I don't know a lot about robots" he said.]

[alteracion]

[ she wants to say she didn't ask but she sort of did, so she just groans a little ]

Okay, but I don't see how talking to the robot tells you anything about any of that.

[holeful]

[Listen his profile warned you. It said math.]

No, but it's just interesting to think about something approaching a consciousness that's all made up of numbers. Built on logic. Human brains aren't like that.

[alteracion]

If you say so.

[ this is an incredibly normal scenario to grace and im crying. sometimes trains are weird ]

[holeful]

[Incredible, I'm now crying also?]

You don't think robots are interesting, miss Grace?

[alteracion]

Not really. They're just things.

[holeful]

You must be from a place that's quite advanced technologically to say something like that.

[alteracion]

Sure, the train's pretty high tech, but they'd still be things even without that.

[holeful]

The train?

[alteracion]

I'm from a train. Yep.

[ she could stand to explain more but also, no, she's had to explain what trains are too much and is just checking if he even knows what a train is ]

[holeful]

Like, you were on a train before you were here or you... live on a train?

[Seems he knows what a train is.]

[alteracion]

I live on a train. It's special. Pretty much every car is its own little world, and it goes on forever. It's pretty cool.

[holeful]

[He's genuiely interested!]

An infinite train... That must be a really interesting place to live.