I wonder if I’m a android or just a goofball like a million times a day

If humanity's pride is at stake, then she should make love to the android, to prove how much better humans are at doing it.

The title reminded me of tonari no robot

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This will be interesting

But why did she not have a belly button? Engineers forgot to give her one lol?

more robots more robots more robot yuri specifically but I'll take this casual subtext

hang on, she's drawn with a belly button on the last page.

So now we have human vs. sex toy?

more robots more robots more robot yuri specifically but I'll take this casual subtext

All this

I... I didn't know what to expect and I came in here with no expectations, I have already been blown away. Need moar.

Damn

I want a goofball android at my university!

I feel like there's a reference I'm missing. Or maybe a pun that doesn't translate well.

Is that an Arale reference? Boy I feel old

The titular character Arale also was told at the school she was going to that she can't be a human. After some brain in the gutter scientist creators over imagination and wacky Toriyama humor, the punchline of the chapter was you guessed it. No belly button.

hang on, she's drawn with a belly button on the last page.

shhh, just assume its obviously fake

aranicar posted:

But why did she not have a belly button? Engineers forgot to give her one lol?

Idk if it is common, but in Heart-Pounding Excitement at Mononoke Girls' Academy the plot point was that youkai are not born like humans, so they don't have a belly button, so that is a easy way to tell whatever someone is human or not. Sure, scientist could just give her belly button to make her as human as possible, but I think it is referring that, since as a robot, she didn't have to be born from mother.

hang on, she's drawn with a belly button on the last page.

shhh, just assume its obviously fake

Could be just the contours between the abdominal muscles I s'pose? Bit of a weird external detail to skimp on if you're already going to the trouble of making your android (presumably) capable of digesting food - probably with some sort of "bioreactor" powerplant - tho.

Also this AI definitely needs some work on its human interaction. Then again that's probably what it's in the school for to begin with.

This shares a title with another story here.

By the way, androids are still humans. If it thinks like a human, acts like a human, looks like a human and considers itself to be a human, it is one. The only difference is that their ghost is piloting a robot made out of metal while we pilot a robot made out of meat.

Goofball android cute. I don't care if there's no yuri.

By the way, androids are still humans. If it thinks like a human, acts like a human, looks like a human and considers itself to be a human, it is one. The only difference is that their ghost is piloting a robot made out of metal while we pilot a robot made out of meat.

That's some pretty bold claims to categorically make about questions heavily dependent on a number of highly complex and entirely unstated premises, not the least the technological assumptions behind the AI.

And how do you define or measure "thinking like a human" in the first place?

I am getting tired of these 2-page "chapters" already. More! More is better!
That's an adorable android! And yes it is mysterious why the designers didn't include a belly button, oh well, it's 'science' eh?
Hopefully cute android will start to study such human behaviours as holding hands and we'll get an 'X' rating!

Grail posted:

Is that an Arale reference? Boy I feel old

The titular character Arale also was told at the school she was going to that she can't be a human. After some brain in the gutter scientist creators over imagination and wacky Toriyama humor, the punchline of the chapter was you guessed it. No belly button.

This was the first thing I was reminded of.

Dr. Slump was a lot of goofy fun.

aranicar posted:

But why did she not have a belly button? Engineers forgot to give her one lol?

Idk if it is common, but in Heart-Pounding Excitement at Mononoke Girls' Academy the plot point was that youkai are not born like humans, so they don't have a belly button, so that is a easy way to tell whatever someone is human or not. Sure, scientist could just give her belly button to make her as human as possible, but I think it is referring that, since as a robot, she didn't have to be born from mother.

Yeah I get that, but it doesn't work as well when the non-human character is built so not having a belly button feels like a convenient plot point rather than due to the whole not being born fact.

I'm thinking a bit too hard on this small little point though lol.

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aranicar posted:

But why did she not have a belly button? Engineers forgot to give her one lol?

Idk if it is common, but in Heart-Pounding Excitement at Mononoke Girls' Academy the plot point was that youkai are not born like humans, so they don't have a belly button, so that is a easy way to tell whatever someone is human or not. Sure, scientist could just give her belly button to make her as human as possible, but I think it is referring that, since as a robot, she didn't have to be born from mother.

Yeah I get that, but it doesn't work as well when the non-human character is built so not having a belly button feels like a convenient plot point rather than due to the whole not being born fact.

'Course it would not be implausible for the in-universe designers to have sculpted her exterior specifically with this trope in mind. It has a degree of traction in the Japanese popular culture after all and might be helpful for avoiding the "uncanny valley" - or conversely help avoid the kinds of anxieties a too convincing "replicant" might inspire.