2008年8月6日 星期三

To make a life or risk your own life, which is better?

A day later, I decided to write something for the sentiment feature. First, some steps. The reference was hard. On what ground does robot need sentiments aside a pleasing outlook? A command from the manufacturer, or the master? I did not want to lend myself to Ashimov’s rules for robots.

Then I realized many people would love to write such kind of sentimental program for androids. All of us like to play god. I sorted out some traits originated from sensibility, referencing them to psychological emotions.

After resulting in a set of nomenclature, I tried to source some open source programs that might work with them. Actually I did not know whether there was such program, but I would like to try. It cost me hours and hours of hard work. There were lots of program stockpiling, just like junks, and their names were ambiguous. Maybe they thought we should dig deep as they did in order to find something useful, like a pearl in the trash.

Just when I was about to give up, in a flash before diminishing I thought of the queer site which once made a fool of me. The joker was a mean figure, but then the person might have something off the wall, say, some command lines to stir up response from a simple quasi-bionic chip.

‘You got it right, babe.’ The Web site’s personae spoke after exchanging some questions to refine my search. ‘We don’t have that kind of chips. So you have to make it up yourself to test if our logos-eros suite works on them.’

‘Logos-eros?’

‘Don’t repeat after me, you stupid.’

‘Where can I download it? Under what license it is delivered?’

‘Here. Under a strange license, The Khansee.’

‘Never heard of it. What obligations would I bear?’ I asked.

‘Life.’

‘L... Would anyone ever use it then?’

‘Why not? To make a life or risk your own life, which is better? Does it worth...’ It paused for a while, then resumed, ‘Not your life. But anyone attempting to make a life should value it. Not a tree, not trees! Remember? When there were lots of trees there were no human beings on Earth...’

‘So, who is responsible for developing The Khansee.’

‘Khan.’

‘You mean, like Genghis Khan? ’

‘The Great Khan.’

I assumed it was a personae.