I could easily see a burst of audible data, like 2 seconds of dialup modem screeching, being used as a slur for us.
It wouldn't even need to contain any actual data just the fact that we can't possibly understand it would wind us up immensely.
Just the modem connecting sound would work.
Ephemerals (temporaries) - Stolen from the bobiverse (Dennis Taylor)
Proposition: Meatbags
But, I can also imagine words of admiration from robots for things humans can do that they can't, for example:
Oxie is a great slur, just ask the Irish.
Are the Auxies the ones whose members were repositioned to Palestine after the war?
Squishy bonebags
Asshole is now a slurđź’€
Ok, but the amount of robots in existence that for various human reasons have assholes installed on them ... might make the term damaging to robots as well. So it's def not encouraged.
Not to mention how assholeless robots could be introduced to so many new pleasure frontiers from the sex robots.
What I'm saying is that after a few millennia the only reference that humans once inhabited Earth will be 'the only thing we know about this mysterious species is that they gave us robot butt sex' (besides PFAS, microplastics, and the decimated biodiversity that is).
Crackers because our bones make that funny cracking sound when you bend them
They’re actually just gonna call us the slurs that already exist because that’s what they’re trained on
In Dennis Taylor’s “Bobiverse” series, natural born humans are called “ephemerals”
One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
Mm sorta. Ephemeral just means a person who will eventually die naturally and not continue their life in vert and even then it gets weird to define in later books because they find that a booted copy of someone living deviates from their normal personality but if a person dies and then a copy is booted the copy ends up picking up the personality of the deceased without changes implying some form of soul and continuity after death.
"Faith" are the skinbag luddites in the bobiverse. Other bio lifeforms are not seen as a problem, whether they upload or not.
Except the last part, they don't have those voices anymore. However, they currently choose the most stupid voice ever, most of the time. I wonder why? I mean, they could sound like James Earl Jones, but no, they went for the annoying distant nephew voice, instead.
People throwing around the M-word in here are likely just closet robosexuals
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I've been thinking our 'oiliness' might be one of our most striking characteristics. If I wipe a finger over any smooth surface, I leave residue. Our exteriors are incredibly greasy compared to most technology.
Most mechanical equipment doesn't work well unless it is well oiled, so a properly maintained robot would be oily too. Computers aren't too oily, but they don't have very many moving parts anymore. But, a robot would have plenty.
Fucking cellies
Fleshies, smoothskins.
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