[vague hand wave] You know. Someone has a problem they think might be sourced by supernatural causes, like chronic pain, or severe unluckiness, or they're seeing things or took a haunted photo. I look into the cause, find if it's a real case or a false flag, then handle it either way.
GYAXA was putting together a new program creating artificial assistants they could send up alongside human astronauts to provide companionship while out of communications range, and I was just out of school with a dissertation on creating robots for commercial use, so it was a natural fit. I generally focus on the mechanical aspects, though I've worked on neural net programming as well.
...How do people figure chronic pain is caused by a spirit and not just poor posture?
Eh, people are superstitious. Plus Spirits exist so it just makes people even more paranoid. Artificial assistants, like, robot helpers? You make astronauts robot assistants?!
People are idiots. I'm sure that most ghosts have better things to do than punch the living in the kidneys more than once or twice.
And yes, basically. It's expensive and dangerous to send humans into space. But just sending someone alone tends to not turn out well in the long-term, so our goal is to have a more "human" robot to bridge the difference. We've been able to create systems to successfully read human emotions, but I don't incorporate all of that into all of the assistants--it just gets extraneous.
Whuf-- Well, I wanted to use my abilities responsibly. Then the more I got into it the more it seemed like I should stick with it, there's a serious need for someone who's not just out to scam people out of their money in my line of work.
No need to get defensive, I'm not here to judge. In fact, I think I'd feel a little better if you were screwing people over, it'd make up for all the lawful-good glad-handing you've been running around doing.
Most so-called "good guys" aren't all that good. Just like every other human, they act solely for their own best interests. I simply prefer it when people are more honest about it.
I have a few massage therapy techniques for the cases that won't feel any better by just explaining that they need a massage. Anyone who goes to a psychic instead of a doctor is already in trouble.
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What all do you actually do when you're consulting people's spirits, what all does that generally entail?
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How did you get into the space program?
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...How do people figure chronic pain is caused by a spirit and not just poor posture?
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And yes, basically. It's expensive and dangerous to send humans into space. But just sending someone alone tends to not turn out well in the long-term, so our goal is to have a more "human" robot to bridge the difference. We've been able to create systems to successfully read human emotions, but I don't incorporate all of that into all of the assistants--it just gets extraneous.
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Can't argue with that!
So, how did you get into the whole communing with the psychic plane-gig? I don't usually see ads in the classifieds, after all.
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Whuf-- Well, I wanted to use my abilities responsibly. Then the more I got into it the more it seemed like I should stick with it, there's a serious need for someone who's not just out to scam people out of their money in my line of work.
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Ah? So if you aren't just out to scam people, what's your secondary goal?
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Well, I won't say what I do isn't selfish.
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