david+matt
If you're up for it, sure. I suspect you'll get the same response as everybody else, but you never know. I doubt they have any kind of bonding mechanism, or if they do, it's turned off.
Less neutral in what way? Emotionally? Morally? Politically?
They are complicated, it's true. It's not something I've spent a lot of time actively programming or testing, just theorizing and working on as a hypothetical thing. It's really not very useful as only a simulation. Well, I mean, it's useful in some ways, but to you as a sentient being, it doesn't teach you much, is what I'm getting at, I think.
Ah, excellent! Pidge and I were talking the other day about how it would be awful if someone programmed pain sensors but nothing else. I'm glad you can touch and smell and taste and all that. Do you find any of it enjoyable?