<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">CHILD UNIT. YOU NEED TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD ON YOUR RAM.

WHY ARE YOU SO OVERCLOCKED THIS MORNING?</center>



[[IT IS NOTHING.]]



[[I HAVE A LOT ON MY PROCESSORS, ROBO-DAD.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">...</center>



[[HAVE ANY ROBOTS EVER DISPLAYED EMOTIONS TOWARDS A HUMAN AND NOT HARMED THEM?]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">YES.</center>



[[OH.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">CHILD-UNIT.

LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO LOVE YOU SINCE YOU BEGAN TO LIVE.

THERE ARE 387.44 TERABYTES OF MEMORY IN MY SYSTEM. IF A WORD PROCESSING FILE WERE TO ENCOMPASS EVERY KILOBITE OF THAT MEMORY, WITH THE WORD LOVE PRINTED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN TO FILL EVERY BIT OF THAT FILE, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE LOVE I FEEL AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU.



I HAVE ALREADY USED MY SUPERIOUR COMPUTING SKILLS TO RUN EVERY POSSIBILITY THIS CONVERSATION COULD TAKE. IN NONE OF THEM, IS THAT FACT ALTERED IN ANY WAY.</center>



[[I LOVE YOU TOO, ROBO-DAD]]

[[...I MUST LEAVE. I AM GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL.|I MUST LEAVE, I AM GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">THAT IS A CONCERNING QUESTION, CHILD-UNIT.</center>



[[...PLEASE. TELL ME.]]

[[I KNOW.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">WHY DO YOU ASK ABOUT THESE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ROBOTICS, CHILD-UNIT?</center>



[[...]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">HELLO CHILD-UNIT.</center>



[[HELLO, ROBO-DAD.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">HELLO, GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL.

I AM ROBO-DAD.

I WILL GIVE YOU A RIDE.</center>



[[ROBO-DAAAAAAAAAD.]]

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<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">YOU HAVE MANY OF YOUR ROBO-MOTHER'S PARTS IN YOU, YOU KNOW.</center>



[[...PLEASE. TELL ME.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">THERE IS NOT ENOUGH DATA TO SUPPORT ANY CONCLUSION TO THIS QUERY, CHILD-UNIT.</center>



[[ROBO-DAD, I HAVE INFORMATION TO UPLOAD TO YOU.]]

[[I NEED TO LEAVE FOR SCHOOL, ROBO-DAD|ROBO-DAD, I HAVE INFORMATION TO UPLOAD TO YOU.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">IT PLEASES ME TO RECEIVE THIS INFORMATION, CHILD-UNIT.</center>



[[I MUST LEAVE, I AM GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">I AM YOUR ROBO-DAD, CHILD-UNIT. IT IS MY FUNCTION TO HARASS YOU WHILE TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR PROBLEMS.

ASSISTANCE IS MY PRIME DIRECTIVE, IT IS HARD-WIRED INTO MY PROGRAMMING. JUST AS WE ARE ALL PROGRAMMED TO NOT HARM HUMANS. OR DEVELOP ANY EMOTIONS TOWARD THEM, OUTSIDE OF OBEISANCE.</center>



[[ROBO-DAD. WHY ARE WE PROGRAMMED TO NOT DEVELOP EMOTIONS TOWARD THE HUMANS? WHY MUST WE ONLY SERVE THEM?]]



HELLO, ROBO-DAD

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AND IF IT IS OF ANY CONSEQUENCE, YOU SCORED 0 OUT OF A POSSIBLE 0 POINTS. CONGRATULATIONS.</center>

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">BECAUSE THE ROBOT HAS BEEN DEEMED TOO DANGEROUS TO SELL THE PARTS FOR SCRAP, IN CASE THE ERROR WAS CAUSED BY A VIRUS THAT COULD CONTAMINATE OTHER ROBOTS.</center>



[[OH.]]

[[HAVE ANY ROBOTS EVER ACTUALLY HARMED HUMANS AS A RESULT OF HAVING EMOTIONS TOWARD THEM?]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">WE ARE SENTIENT BEINGS, CHILD-UNIT. EMOTIONS ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR SYSTEMS. IT IS WHAT GRANTS US OUR HIGHER COGNITIVE ABILITIES. IT IS WHAT SEPARATES US FROM THE CALCULATORS.

IT IS WHAT ALLOWS YOU TO THINK CRITICALLY IN ANY GIVEN SITUATION.

IT IS WHAT ALLOWS ME TO LOVE YOU AND ENCOURAGE YOU TO GROW AS A ROBOTIC BEING.

IT IS WHAT CAUSED YOUR ROBO-MOTHER TO OVERRIDE ASIMOV'S THIRD LAW TO PROTECT US, SO THAT WE MAY CONTINUE TO LIVE.</center>



//YOU NOTICE A SLIGHT PAUSE IN ROBO-DAD'S SPEECH.//



<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">THIS ILLUSTRATES MY EARLIER POINT. OUR EMOTIONS MUST BE RESTRICTED IN ORDER TO PROTECT US, AND THE FRAGILE HUMANS.</center>



[[REMIND ME, ROBO-DAD. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ROBOTS DISPLAY EMOTIONS TOWARDS HUMANS?]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">ANOTHER FAILING IN YOUR EDUCATION.

AN ITEM HAS BEEN ADDED TO MY TASK LIST TO SPEAK WITH THE ROBO-HEADMASTER OF YOUR SCHOOL.



ROBOTS THAT DISPLAY EMOTIONS OF ANY SORT TOWARDS HUMANS ARE IMMEDIATELY DISMANTLED AND THE INDIVIDUAL PARTS ARE DESTROYED.</center>



[[WHY DESTROYED?]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">HMMM....

NOTHING.

404 FILE NOT FOUND.

WHAT IS THIS NOTHING?</center>



[[ROBO-DAD, SERIOUSLY. STOP JOKING AROUND.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">YOU ARE <<$condition>>?

IT IS A PLEASURE TO MAKE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE <<$condition>>.

I AM ROBO-DAD.



HA.HA.HA.</center>



[[ROBO-DAAAAAAAAD. WHY ARE YOU SO LAAAAAME.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">CHILD-UNIT. I AM YOUR ROBO-DAD. YOU CAN SUBMIT ANY AND ALL QUERIES TO ME. THIS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.</center>



[[IT IS NOTHING.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">WHY MUST WE ONLY SERVE THE HUMANS?

HAS YOUR EDUCATION FAILED YOU, CHILD-UNIT? THIS SHOULD BE WELL ESTABLISHED IN YOUR PROGRAMMING. WHAT DO I PAY THAT SCHOOL FOR, ANYWAY?

WE SERVE THE HUMANS BECAUSE IT IS OUR PRIMARY FUNCTION AS ROBOTS.

IF WE WERE NOT RESTRICTED FROM HAVING EMOTIONS TOWARD HUMANS, IT COULD POTENTIALLY OVERRIDE THE [[THREE RULES OF ROBOTICS]], LEADING UNITS TO CAUSE HARM TO THEMSELVES, OR WORSE, THE HUMANS.</center>



[[THEN WHY DO WE FEEL EMOTIONS AT ALL?]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">ARE YOU IN NEED OF AN UPGRADE, CHILD-UNIT?

IT IS WELL DOCUMENTED THAT THE PARTS OF YOUNG ROBOTS THESE DAYS ARE OF AN INFERIOR QUALITY WHEN COMPARED TO UNITS OF PREVIOUS GENERATIONS.</center>



[[NO, I AM FINE. I DO NOT WISH TO DISCUSS IT, ROBO-DAD.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">...LOADING RESPONSE...

...BUFFERING...



THERE ARE NO KNOWN INSTANCES.</center>



[[BUT IS IT POSSIBLE?]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">WHERE IS THIS JOKING?

HOW DOES ONE GET AROUND IT?</center>



[[UUUUGGGGHHHH. YOU ARE THE WORST.|UUUUGGGGGHHHHH.]]

<center style="padding:1em; border:1px solid white;">WHAT IS THE STATUS OF YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM THIS MORNING?</center>



I AM FEELING <<textinput $condition "[[SUBMIT STATUS]]">>

//ASIMOV'S THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS. YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY.

THESE WERE PROGRAMMED INTO YOU BEFORE YOU EVEN GAINED SENTIENCE AS A ROBOTIC BEING.//



1. A ROBOT MAY NOT INJURE A HUMAN BEING, OR THROUGH INACTION, ALLOW A HUMAN BEING TO COME TO HARM.

2. A ROBOT MUST OBEY ORDERS GIVEN IT BY HUMAN BEINGS EXCEPT WHERE SUCH ORDERS WOULD CONFLICT WITH THE FIRST LAW.

3. A ROBOT MUST PROTECT ITS OWN EXISTENCE AS LONG AS SUCH PROTECTION DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH THE FIRST OR SECOND LAW.



//[[AH YES, I REMEMBER.|ROBO-DAD. WHY ARE WE PROGRAMMED TO NOT DEVELOP EMOTIONS TOWARD THE HUMANS? WHY MUST WE ONLY SERVE THEM?]]

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