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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s got a common root with orphan, somehow

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind:

Robot is unique and alone
Robots outlive their creators/creating civilization
Robots discarded after their usefulness expired

And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)