by Adelene » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:46 pm
Ah, yeah I get it. In a practical sense, though: sort of maybe? Mostly they'd be looking at whether she'd cause or run into trouble, more than at whether she'd be able to get some amount of use out of them right away; so long as she gets in enough practice to keep the skill from completely atrophying, it doesn't matter if she doesn't use the robots for much of anything until she's older, they'll still count it as a win - the fact that Matilda in particular won't run into that problem is a bonus, but not decisive given their actual goals. (They actually tend to run a little bit sociopathic, in this regard - not malicious at all, and strongly ethical as far as their ethics go, but it gets kind of obvious sometimes that nobody there is doing the 'look out for my fellow human' thing.)
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