The verthandi here sounds just as annoyingly selfless and self-conscious as Belldandy is in the series. Don’t these creatures have any hobbies besides doing our dishes and kneeling in submissive positions?
Right, and that’s exactly the point. She is your best possible partner—including being sentient, being intelligent, etc. I honestly have trouble seeing what’s wrong with that.
It’s a bit questionable if the relationship is one way, but it could be designed to be a symmetric “best” for the companion too. Okay, more CPU cycles, but this reeks of hard take-off, which probably means new physics...
Also, a bit more technically but I hope worth adding—if the companion already exists in any possible world, the fact that you engineer a situation where you are able to perceive one another isn’t creating a pattern ex nihilo, it’s discovering one. Takes some of the wind out of the argument, although you still certainly have a point on privacy if the relationship is asymmetric.
The verthandi here sounds just as annoyingly selfless and self-conscious as Belldandy is in the series. Don’t these creatures have any hobbies besides doing our dishes and kneeling in submissive positions?
Presumably, your own personal verthandi(s) would have other hobbies, because you would want them to.
Right, and that’s exactly the point. She is your best possible partner—including being sentient, being intelligent, etc. I honestly have trouble seeing what’s wrong with that.
The fact that she was designed just for me...that in itself would ruin it for me.
It’s a bit questionable if the relationship is one way, but it could be designed to be a symmetric “best” for the companion too. Okay, more CPU cycles, but this reeks of hard take-off, which probably means new physics...
Also, a bit more technically but I hope worth adding—if the companion already exists in any possible world, the fact that you engineer a situation where you are able to perceive one another isn’t creating a pattern ex nihilo, it’s discovering one. Takes some of the wind out of the argument, although you still certainly have a point on privacy if the relationship is asymmetric.