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"did I had an extremely expensive wife - she would see a new car that she liked and just buy it... under California law I was bound to buy her debts. I think I turned out 16 novels in five years."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Basic Robot Personality | ||
| Providing simple personalities to robots. |
| "...we'll make them robots so mean they'll hate themselves. It's a secret process we've got and we aren't letting anyone in on it. We use a radium brain in each one of the robots and we know how to give them personality. Most of our orders are for gentle ones or hard workers, but if you want them mean, we'll make them mean for you. |
| Technovelgy from Simultaneous Worlds,
by Nat Schachner. Published by Astounding in 1938 Additional resources -
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Compare to Genuine People Personalities (GPP) from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams.
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