raocow's talkhaus

You expect your robot to be a little force for chaos wherever it goes, but you want to be subtle about it. You name it "Gardyloo" after what Renaissance people would yell before dumping crap out of their windows.

Now that Gardyloo has a body,it might be time to treat Gardyloo more like a person. With what pronouns would you refer to Gardyloo?

1- "It" is just fine. It's not human
2- I will refer to her as feminine
3- I will refer to him as masculine
4- I would prefer to use entirely new pronouns for robots: rhe, rer and rhim

Encouraging people to think of Gardyloo as humanlike, as opposed to objectlike, should help him get along with people (+Empathy)

You look on Gardyloo's three-foot-tall eight legged body with satisfaction. Now all he needs are motors and a mind. The motors will have to wait for tomorrow, but you've spent years in graduate school writing the code that would form this robot's mind - you can hardly wait to try it out.

You head back to your appartment, where you spend several hours working on the final touches to Gardyloo's natural language processing code.

What language do you program your robots in?
1- C++. Speed of thought is all
2- Python. It has the best tools for understanding words
3- Go. The most beautiful language
4- Java. Everybody uses Java

Gardyloo
Autonomy - 3 (buggy)
Military - 3 (buggy)
Empathy - 3 (buggy)
Grace - 6 (in beta)

raocow wrote:I vote for Go (3) because I have no idea what that is, and as such probably the most futuristic.