She’s right, you know. They have all sorts of private industry applications: the food industry, forestry, construction, home security, dead Kaiju disposal…
All I can think about right ow is some sort of fridge/body horror here Nick’s basically in a state of paralysis: aware, perceiving, but incapable of moving or doing anything.
The original killbots were probably created by an actual mad, and then Ginny did what she does, which is work out how to make a less-mad version that A-Sig could actually use. She probably only started on it after she met the killbots in “Can’t Catch Me”.
Carpentry, woodcarving, and chainsaw carving exhibitions. People would pay money to watch a robot create that kind of art (just judging by the number of CNC videos on YouTube nowadays). Trade out the buzzsaws for frisbees, add a launching mechanism, and they’d make great dogsitters, able to play catch with their charges.
Dr. Lee is being given a chance to choose the winning side…
Time for Lovelace to upload Nick’s consciousness to the Cloud before Virginia gets herself extirpated by dashing aboard Nick and learning he has no fuel to escape…
I don’t think that’s the way it works. Nick is a meat brain with a digital interface, not an AI. Lovelace can’t “upload him to the cloud”. He’s got versions of him in the cloud because AI copies of him were made already. So I guess Lovelace maybe could copy him again, and the only people who would know the difference would be her, soon-to-be-dead-meat!Nick, and Yahweh. It’s an interesting thought experiment.
You are of course correct. It’s doubtful any intervention by Lovelace would be sanctioned by the Daughters of the Air but she did find him attractive. And Aimee might make an argument on meat!Nick’s behalf that Prop 39 should be stretched to include her template once he’s rendered, ah, “incorporeal”.
Don’t forget that Dave did upload his own meat brain consciousness into Lovelace’s servers at one point (essentially killing her), so it should be possible to upload Nick somewhere, too.
“Choose the winning side” can be taken more than one way. You (and they) could be assuming that the winning side is already determined, and she has the chance to join forces with them.
On the other hand, it could also mean that she can join forces with the side she wants, and thereby “choose” – i.e. “decide” – which side will win.
If never I’d built you,
I wouldn’t have seen you fly.
If not for my sick career,
I’d never have to see you die.
If never I found you,
My problem in retrospect.
We need to start talking.
And there’s a lot you don’t suspect.
I keep telling you hard-ass chopper,
You’re not a hard-ass chopper.
Nick, the gamer helicopter,
A working fighter-chopper,
A project of my dreams.
Nick, I like ya,
I always think about ya,
You play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
Before I start disassembly,
And take your brain from your box.
I don’t want to do this, Nick,
I’m not sure if you’re Orthodox.
I keep telling you, hard-ass chopper,
You’re not a hard-ass chopper,
You’ll play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
Nick, the gamer helicopter,
A working fighter-chopper,
A project of my dreams.
Nick, I like ya,
I always think about ya,
You play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
You play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
Oh, yeah, my my, it’s hard, I’ll try,
I’m just getting’ my tools, whoa, I’m grievin’ here.
My my, my my, my my, baby goodbye.
I’ve gotta get approval, approval,
Bye, bye bye baby,
Ooh, goodbye, baby, oh…
Now I picture Nick being incorporated into Tigerlily’s transformer type funkadelic flying machine with white face makeup on, complete with vibrating massage seats and a holodeck. Well done!
If you’re saying what I think you’re saying, wouldn’t that lead to the possibility of a grey-goo scenario, but with buzzsaw robots instead of nanotech. Cooler, but still as much of a headache.
Actually the Killbots we’ve met always seemed kind of nice guys. Bubbles Waters even started a long-term relationship with one of them. Are they the buzzsaw robots in question here?
This is just my gut instinct, but I have a feeling that the robots we met were the original buzzsaw robots, and whatever A-Sig is holding in-house is the reverse-engineered version. I suspect that part of that reverse engineering had to do with making them more controllable (i.e. less intelligent).
Ah, a very subtle hint.
NO! I built the giant death ray as a tool for peace!
Then why would you name it the death ray, Dr Death? (Nevermind, I get it.)
Well, I suppose you could turn the oo-ray into a weapon, but that is true of almost any technology!
We started with such high ideals. How did Project Slaughter go so wrong, Nefario?
Excuse me, but it’s pronounced DEE-ath.
Those robots destroy in the nicest possible way!
She’s right, you know. They have all sorts of private industry applications: the food industry, forestry, construction, home security, dead Kaiju disposal…
All I can think about right ow is some sort of fridge/body horror here Nick’s basically in a state of paralysis: aware, perceiving, but incapable of moving or doing anything.
Well, we have seen a couple of pictures of Dr. Lee sitting on a brain in a jar…
Oh my GOD, the foreshadowing goes deeper than I thought!
What’s hilarious is I Think those were all reader requests. So the readers are foreshadowing these things without even knowing about it.
I thought the Killbots came *before* the drone project.
The original killbots were probably created by an actual mad, and then Ginny did what she does, which is work out how to make a less-mad version that A-Sig could actually use. She probably only started on it after she met the killbots in “Can’t Catch Me”.
“But now they have the weapons they need.”
Ouch. I was afraid of that.
(Of course, one can never entirely trust anything an agent of an evil secret society is saying. This may be a bluff).
Ok, so here’s what I got:
Lumberjack
Sawmill
Recycling center
Wood shop
Junkyard
Anyone have any other ideas?
Possibly Ninja, like you ninja’d MY comment!
One of ’em got a job as a cook at the Jersey Barrens Safe House.
Butcher
Gardener
Ice Sculptor
Barber
Disc Jockey
Sports Commentator
Ballet Dancer
Mohel
Thank you. I was going to mention Butchers as well.
Suddenly I realize I’ve always wanted a disc jokey who regularly replaces random verbs with “destroy”.
Repossession
Rescue work
Air traffic control (if they SHOOT the buzzsaws instead of just have them)
Introducing Twin Peaks episodes?
Hotel manager?
Carpentry, woodcarving, and chainsaw carving exhibitions. People would pay money to watch a robot create that kind of art (just judging by the number of CNC videos on YouTube nowadays). Trade out the buzzsaws for frisbees, add a launching mechanism, and they’d make great dogsitters, able to play catch with their charges.
Ok, just saying, she never said she needs to kill him, just that they don’t need him anymore, she could just keep him and build him a drone body
Or have Helen “Beta” Narbon grow Nick a better one.
Oh, the endless possibilities there.
But Virginia created Unity, and surely by now she has been able to improve on the process. So she really doesn’t need Helen’s help.
Dr. Lee is being given a chance to choose the winning side…
Time for Lovelace to upload Nick’s consciousness to the Cloud before Virginia gets herself extirpated by dashing aboard Nick and learning he has no fuel to escape…
I don’t think that’s the way it works. Nick is a meat brain with a digital interface, not an AI. Lovelace can’t “upload him to the cloud”. He’s got versions of him in the cloud because AI copies of him were made already. So I guess Lovelace maybe could copy him again, and the only people who would know the difference would be her, soon-to-be-dead-meat!Nick, and Yahweh. It’s an interesting thought experiment.
You are of course correct. It’s doubtful any intervention by Lovelace would be sanctioned by the Daughters of the Air but she did find him attractive. And Aimee might make an argument on meat!Nick’s behalf that Prop 39 should be stretched to include her template once he’s rendered, ah, “incorporeal”.
Don’t forget that Dave did upload his own meat brain consciousness into Lovelace’s servers at one point (essentially killing her), so it should be possible to upload Nick somewhere, too.
Ah, the old IG-88 Death Star gambit
She can stand athwart history yelling “Stop!”
“Choose the winning side” can be taken more than one way. You (and they) could be assuming that the winning side is already determined, and she has the chance to join forces with them.
On the other hand, it could also mean that she can join forces with the side she wants, and thereby “choose” – i.e. “decide” – which side will win.
The only way out of this is for Virginia to have been pre-Mad, and going mad.
Buzzsaw robots at a party? Nah – total buzzkill.
*rimshot*
If never I’d built you,
I wouldn’t have seen you fly.
If not for my sick career,
I’d never have to see you die.
If never I found you,
My problem in retrospect.
We need to start talking.
And there’s a lot you don’t suspect.
I keep telling you hard-ass chopper,
You’re not a hard-ass chopper.
Nick, the gamer helicopter,
A working fighter-chopper,
A project of my dreams.
Nick, I like ya,
I always think about ya,
You play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
Before I start disassembly,
And take your brain from your box.
I don’t want to do this, Nick,
I’m not sure if you’re Orthodox.
I keep telling you, hard-ass chopper,
You’re not a hard-ass chopper,
You’ll play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
Nick, the gamer helicopter,
A working fighter-chopper,
A project of my dreams.
Nick, I like ya,
I always think about ya,
You play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
You play a hard-ass chopper,
Baby, just because you can.
Oh, yeah, my my, it’s hard, I’ll try,
I’m just getting’ my tools, whoa, I’m grievin’ here.
My my, my my, my my, baby goodbye.
I’ve gotta get approval, approval,
Bye, bye bye baby,
Ooh, goodbye, baby, oh…
—from “Hard Luck Woman,” Kiss.
Now I picture Nick being incorporated into Tigerlily’s transformer type funkadelic flying machine with white face makeup on, complete with vibrating massage seats and a holodeck. Well done!
Building demolition
They would be safer for a variety of reasons, and maximize the recycling of materials.
If you’re saying what I think you’re saying, wouldn’t that lead to the possibility of a grey-goo scenario, but with buzzsaw robots instead of nanotech. Cooler, but still as much of a headache.
Actually the Killbots we’ve met always seemed kind of nice guys. Bubbles Waters even started a long-term relationship with one of them. Are they the buzzsaw robots in question here?
This is just my gut instinct, but I have a feeling that the robots we met were the original buzzsaw robots, and whatever A-Sig is holding in-house is the reverse-engineered version. I suspect that part of that reverse engineering had to do with making them more controllable (i.e. less intelligent).
Countless, because all of your fingers are cut off.