#mb meme

My Meta

Feature, Not a Bug: how keeping SecUnits depressed is beneficial to corporates. also posits SecUnits (and other MIs) as social

Social Failsafe: short post asserting that MIs were created to be social

Sentient Machines and Personhood thread: how Murderbot treats other machines like people, despite its biases

We Need to Talk About ComfortUnits thread: thinking about ComfortUnits, their experiences and purpose

Coded and Encoded: how MIs are created for a purpose, and how Murderbot’s purpose seems to be self-destruction

Memory Wipes: bit of speculation about how Murderbot’s experiences before its memory wipes might still be affecting it

One Bitch of an Unsatisfactory Situation: how fucked up it was in System Collapse that they had to depend on Murderbot to be functional despite it being in the middle of a mental health crisis (worth checking out the notes for @egelantier’s responses)

On Murderbot’s Self-Harm: an analysis of Murderbot’s relationship to its own bodily destruction

Relationships Between Constructs a thread: also speculates how ComfUnits are probably more social in ways that SecUnits can’t be

No Ethical Constructs: response to an ask about the potential for ethically manufactured constructs

Threat and Risk Assessments and Potential Enshittification a thread featuring @acmonblue

Others’ Meta

Murderbot is an Incredibly Active Protagonist by @harpieisthecarpie

SecUnits and CR Propaganda by @thedragoninthetardis

Four Years of Media, a thread

ComfortUnits, a thread

Bot Purpose, Human Autonomy, and Murderbot by @emilysidhe

Construct and Advanced AI Developmental Psychology by @asthedeathoflight

How Murderbot Thinks of 2.0 by @light-weaver

Murderbot and a Heroic Death by @fullcirclehuh

Isn't it Fun to be Friends with a Surveillance Machine by @paskuda-lynx

Murderbot Interacts with an Entire Separate World of Bot and System Intelligences by @thepanophobic

The Inherent Moral Injury of Being a SecUnit by @libraflyter

On Murderbot’s Name

Name Origins by @sainamoonshine

What’s in a Name by @thecraftgremlin

Japanese Translation Pronouns, a thread

ART Studies

ART Doesn’t Lie by @inkedinserendipity

ART and Agency, a thread

ART and Murderbot’s First Meeting from ART’s Perspective by @siderealcity

Murderbot and ART on Experience, a thread: how Murderbot changes ART and others through sharing of itself. Emphasis on ART

Finesse, Brute Force, and MI Treatment by @jadefyre with a focus on comparing/contrasting ART and Murderbot

ART’s Communication Style by @asthedeathoflight

ART Does “HAL-9000” by @emilysidhe

ART, Freedom, and Speculation All the Way Down, a thread

Home of Murderbot Media Showdown Sunday

open to submissions via ask for shows Murderbot would like! will include ART, and sometimes others

My favorite MB post, as a final treat :)