Murderbot makes the equivalent of a snort in the feet; apparently Murderbot hadn't thought much of ART's advice, whatever it was.
ART's an asshole and its advice is useless, is all it says, as it as a Student Arrival Assessment check to Three's safe zone. Now there's a marker featuring the percentage chance of a student arriving there soon (although since the number keeps wildly fluctuating, the data isn't there yet to make an accurate prediction). It thinks we should be "nice" to them.
It did sound like something a human would say. Probably it was something ART's humans had said to it once, and which had irrationally decided to apply to young humans and young humans only.
Then Murderbot pauses for .23 seconds. What did being nice involve?
Probably involves a lot of smiling. And hugs. (There is a shudder in the feed, as Murderbot contemplates the horror that is hugging.) ART can be nice all it fucking wants, I'm not doing it.
The very idea makes Three's performance reliability drop by three whole percent.
I am not doing either of those things.
Though it does bring up the question of how, if being nice involves smiling and hugging, Perihelion manages to be nice.
Perhelion cannot do either of those things.
Maybe it doesn't know how to be nice, either, and it's all just a gray uncertain area to all the bots and constructs around here. Maybe that's why Murderbot and Perihelion argue so much, neither of them know what they're doing.
(Three might be onto something there, because Murderbot doesn't really know what it's doing. Not when it comes to interacting with humans. It just knows marginally more than Three does.)
...It could use a drone for hugs, maybe? It says, after a pause. But it better not be using one for smiling. I don't want to see teeth on those things.
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ART's an asshole and its advice is useless, is all it says, as it as a Student Arrival Assessment check to Three's safe zone. Now there's a marker featuring the percentage chance of a student arriving there soon (although since the number keeps wildly fluctuating, the data isn't there yet to make an accurate prediction). It thinks we should be "nice" to them.
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I don't know how to be nice. I can be polite.
Though if Murderbot has reviewed the footage, it can see that the being polite is mostly a veneer over internal panic.
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Then Murderbot pauses for .23 seconds. What did being nice involve?
Probably involves a lot of smiling. And hugs. (There is a shudder in the feed, as Murderbot contemplates the horror that is hugging.) ART can be nice all it fucking wants, I'm not doing it.
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I am not doing either of those things.
Though it does bring up the question of how, if being nice involves smiling and hugging, Perihelion manages to be nice.
Perhelion cannot do either of those things.
Maybe it doesn't know how to be nice, either, and it's all just a gray uncertain area to all the bots and constructs around here. Maybe that's why Murderbot and Perihelion argue so much, neither of them know what they're doing.
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...It could use a drone for hugs, maybe? It says, after a pause. But it better not be using one for smiling. I don't want to see teeth on those things.