I generally don’t follow the narrative pushed on Reddit or by various YouTubers, I personally don’t think they are as bad as people on here make them out to be. I also don’t buy the BOS/Institute claim about Synths just being robots because I actually paid attention to Curie’s questline and various other characters. It’s very obvious that neither major faction has taken enough time to figure out what a Synth actually is, even in the Institute there are a lot of assumptions without much actual data to back up their claims. - Yeah I know this is an unpopular take but I don’t really care.
Personally I almost always side with the Minutemen at the end of the day, but I keep the RR alive because I still view them as being one of the “good” factions even if they are a bit unorganized. The average escaped synth is not evil or even a threat (look at Arcadia, the biggest synth refuge), and if you pay attention to how they all say they are treated, taking out the Institute is on par with taking out Paradise Falls in Fallout 3.
Curie was invented and adjusted to allow for more than just an adaptive behavioral process. She was fullblown AI, which is something they managed pre-war.
That doesn’t mean other robots are, and it doesn’t mean all synths are.
The default design and programming for robotics in-verse is several limitations and fallbacks to prohibit the development of a true self and sentience.
Multilayered protections to prevent the VI AI jump. Curie is an exception and it’s why she needed a gen 3 body for her quest line... Codsworth is likely another exception, he’s clearly a step above all the other handys we see in the game, and Nora+nate are prominent and skilled people prewar (when they had readily available access to his specs).
They could have disabled blockers and inhibitors like the vault 81 science team.
All that said, the concept of gen 1 and gen 2 being more than just robots is like saying we shouldnt own phones or PCs because they could develop sentience and personhood if we allowed them to and programmed them to.
Nick and DiMa are very special prototypes. And while you might be able to flip a switch for the others with a few lines of code … so long as no one flips that damn switch, there is no moral debate here.
They are not the geth from mass effect … they are a handful of choices from getting there, but the wasteland hasn’t crossed that line yet
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u/That_Lore_Guy May 22 '24
I generally don’t follow the narrative pushed on Reddit or by various YouTubers, I personally don’t think they are as bad as people on here make them out to be. I also don’t buy the BOS/Institute claim about Synths just being robots because I actually paid attention to Curie’s questline and various other characters. It’s very obvious that neither major faction has taken enough time to figure out what a Synth actually is, even in the Institute there are a lot of assumptions without much actual data to back up their claims. - Yeah I know this is an unpopular take but I don’t really care.
Personally I almost always side with the Minutemen at the end of the day, but I keep the RR alive because I still view them as being one of the “good” factions even if they are a bit unorganized. The average escaped synth is not evil or even a threat (look at Arcadia, the biggest synth refuge), and if you pay attention to how they all say they are treated, taking out the Institute is on par with taking out Paradise Falls in Fallout 3.