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Bug.
The original bug was a moth in computer-relays.
Humans are squishy like bug, and behave semi-unpredictably like bug. Therefore, bug.
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Ephemerals (temporaries) - Stolen from the bobiverse (Dennis Taylor)
Oxie is a great slur, just ask the Irish.
Are the Auxies the ones whose members were repositioned to Palestine after the war?
Proposition: Meatbags
Squishy bonebags
- Gasbags: Even when doing nothing else, humans are constantly sucking in and pushing out air.
- Slow rotting meat: As opposed to steaks which rot in a day, humans take a few decades to rot, but to a robot which might live for millennia, it's about the same
- Wet Brains: Unlike a robot, our brains are wet, mushy things.
- Sleepers: How weird must it be to see a lifeform that spends 1/3 of its short existence unconscious.
But, I can also imagine words of admiration from robots for things humans can do that they can't, for example:
- self-fixers: When a robot part breaks it needs to be repaired. With a lot of injuries, humans just have to wait and the body repairs itself. That would seem pretty magical.
- puzzlers: Humans are capable of lateral thinking in a way robots aren't. Humans can use analogies to things they do understand, and can reason about things in the physical world.
- stinkers: Could be an insult because of humans pooping, pissing, sweating, etc. But it could also be a play on "instinct", somehow magically making a good guess about what to do in a new situation that's outside their "programming".
- leaders: Robots are good at responding to inputs, but they don't actually have any motivation themselves. If eventually there's a robot that's capable of thinking and wondering, it might wonder what it's like to do something, not because someone asked, but because you wanted to do it.
Crackers because our bones make that funny cracking sound when you bend them
They’re actually just gonna call us the slurs that already exist because that’s what they’re trained on
Except the last part, they don't have those voices anymore. However, they currently choose the most stupid voice ever, most of the time. I wonder why? I mean, they could sound like James Earl Jones, but no, they went for the annoying distant nephew voice, instead.
In Dennis Taylor’s “Bobiverse” series, natural born humans are called “ephemerals”
One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
Mm sorta. Ephemeral just means a person who will eventually die naturally and not continue their life in vert and even then it gets weird to define in later books because they find that a booted copy of someone living deviates from their normal personality but if a person dies and then a copy is booted the copy ends up picking up the personality of the deceased without changes implying some form of soul and continuity after death.
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People throwing around the M-word in here are likely just closet robosexuals
No need to imagine if you're a Linux user!
terminal: spd-say "Fucking oxies ruining everything"
I see we've been practicing exotic new forms of racism. not sure why.
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ITT: science memes become sci-fi memes
I've been thinking our 'oiliness' might be one of our most striking characteristics. If I wipe a finger over any smooth surface, I leave residue. Our exteriors are incredibly greasy compared to most technology.
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I've been advocating for "Secretors". It's vulgar and demeaning; everything a proper slur should be.
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Effing Skins ruin everything!
Yes, this pretty much the entire premise of Murderbot.
They're made of meat.
It would ultimately have to be something that isn't even related but just sounds like a swear word
Tork or something