The HBO series "Westworld" is executing one of the most impressive stories on television, and now is the perfect time to get a trial started on the streaming service. (With so many original series dropping, even the comic-based "Watchmen" is worth committing your time to.) This is more than likely due to its complex characters, who are made up of robot “hosts” that seek to make the human world theirs.
The motivation behind this lies in the robot's coding, which was originally designed by humans, which has over 120 characteristics that affect them. Hosts have attributes that can be ticked or raised to a certain degree, thus affecting their nature and robot lifestyle. Here are the five attributes that are perfect for hosts (and five that make no sense).
10 Perfect: Kindness
The fact is, Westworld is a theme park. While it isn’t entirely, or individually, intended to be a family-friendly one, it certainly is purposed for entertainment.
Kindness as an attribute has to be a necessity for the robots as they’re the main source of experiences at the park. With so many people coming to have some fun, there is no way that kindness could be overlooked.
9 No Sense: Meticulousness
One future day there will be a list of items to include when assembling robot consciousness. This should never go on that list.
An attentive host is a dangerous host. Think of the power minute details hold at affecting entire systems. Giving hosts this attribute could very well be the reason that a few succeeded in advancing beyond their day to day operations.
8 Perfect: Literalness
Literalness will benefit the communication potential or lack thereof that the hosts would have in a situation with humans.
Without the understanding of more complex sentences, it would be an easier task to either outwit or persuade a host back to a subordinate position. Otherwise, the door is open for them to communicate better than humans and before you know it... robot rebellion.
7 No Sense: Individualism
There should be zero capability for a nonsentient machine to believe it is an individual. If it did, it may act on it.
My toaster may toast more than my multigrain gluten-free slice of ciabatta. It would demand independence, or ask for autonomy. This is not unlike the stories of Dolores and Maeve in the earlier seasons of "Westworld" where they self-realized and wanted more than their programming.
6 Perfect: Humor
It is unlikely that humor would only benefit a small percentage of guests, because who doesn’t like to laugh. Humor is essential in guest to guest relations.
The desire to make the hosts as realistic as possible is understandable. It makes sense to include humor in that effort, and it can easily be done without fear of any hosts acting out because of it. On top of that, this should be an attribute cranked up to the highest mark, because then maybe the hosts can laugh off their frustrations with the world. It’s part of existing.
5 No Sense: Fashion
This makes no sense, but it’s hilarious to imagine a host having a need for recognizing the trends around them and determining what fashion is.
All the hosts in Westworld are dressed by the staff members. The show has made no demonstration of the hosts changing their clothes based on their fashionable interests. So unless there is some hidden sweatshop where they are determining fads of today, it’s pointless.
4 Perfect: Humility
There is something special about being able to look in the mirror and realize actual value apart from ego.
Humility is perfect for stripping hosts of any form of ego and bringing them back down to reality with the rest of the park. It could help control the computations that govern their actions so that instead of overthrowing a multimillion-dollar company with grit and blood, they host a karaoke night with virgin mixers! It’d be important to keep them in line and not get too ambitious.
3 No Sense: Sociopathy
Sociopathy in robots. With this realization, it’s no surprise the hosts were able to be as merciless with their takeover as they were.
Giving someone the push toward sociopathy can be spun to make sense, given that workers wouldn’t want the hosts to band and work together. However, this was something that contributed toward their indifference regardless of the treatment they were given, and what they did to their oppressors.
2 Perfect: Obedience
Obedience is the most important directive these hosts should be following.
When situations get out of hand, there needs to be one thing to fall back on. The best diffuser of a serious moment can be a couple of directives given by a park member. Obedience ties into control based on those giving the orders, and in the show only a few hosts can fight against their programming to be compliant.
1 No Sense: Stoicism
Stoicism can mean two things, the philosophy of the Stoics, or the indifference of pleasure or pain. Neither of these seems applicable to life like entertainment machines in a theme park.
A park full of philosophical robots may sound like the grandest of times, but that thoughtfulness can evolve into a new perspective. This again can be tied into what started a revolt, and instead of having emotional responses to actions in the park, this gives them the capacity to act regardless of their state.
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