Quotes About Awareness

How humans decide what to do with their arms on a second by second basis, I still have no idea

I really needed to get around to setting that one-second delay on my mouth.

Nobody grabs SecUnits. I hadn't realized this was a perk until now.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

All right," she said, and looked at me for what objectively I knew was 2.4 seconds and subjectively about twenty excruciating minutes.

Overconfident humans who don't listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.)

Humans can miss a lot of little clues, but me being able to fire energy weapons from my arms would be something of a red flag.

Don't look at me like that's my fault. I'm just telling you shit I know.

I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal?

I know I said SecUnits aren't sentimental about each other, but I wished it wasn't one of the DeltFall units. It was in there somewhere, trapped in its own head, maybe aware, maybe not. Not that it matters. None of us had a choice.

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there's nothing you can do about it.

Human security had literally just noticed that something had tried to steal their client's head.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

Humans and augmented humans shift their weight when they stand, they react to sudden sounds and bright lights, they scratch themselves, they adjust their hair, they look in their pockets or bags to check for things that they already know are in there.

Their expressions gave Moon the impression that was he was being watched with disapproval, but he felt like that a lot, so it was probably just him.

all singing "caution" in chorus

I knew Amena well enough by now to recognize she was feigning polite interest to disguise horrified interest.)

I know a "fuck off" when I hear one. So I fucked off.

At least victims of contract labor are free to think their own thoughts. But we tell ourselves that constructs aren't aware of their predicament. What SecUnit makes us realize is that this is not true; they are all aware of what they are and what's been done to them. But the only choice they are ever offered is obedience or pain and death.

know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run

You ever notice something about humans? You ask them, if they could go back and live any day over again, what would they do? It's always to go back and fix something, as if they know precisely the moment when everything went wrong.