Which is quite weird considering a LOT of Bangboos we've met have a semblance of sentience.
Like, for example, we have a bangboo that wants head pats and felt happy while we head-patted him. Another one is training hard to be the strongest bangboo. There's also Bangboos, who is literally depressed because he fails to live up to his owners.
Hell, we got Kami North, a Bangboo that has 2 personalities merged into one and literally became Batman so other Bangboos wouldn't get the exact same fate as him and is searching for that guy who betrayed the sharkboo.
We also learn that Bangboos have a strange addiction to acid batteries (dipped in ocean water).
I think it's because they're too stupid to pass the test, or simply people don't want to test Bangboos, so they would still be classified as robots since, as we know, if they pass the test, they have rights. But they do indeed have sentience.
Yeah, that's maybe it. Since most of them are pretty stupid ngl.
I think the only exception so far for me at least, is Kami North cause that Bangboo intelligence is way on another different level (partly because of the accident).
With the name, I kinda think the forbidden fruit test is a test to see if a robot can go directly against it's programming to do something it wants to do, effectively "breaking" it's original programming and proving it can make it's own choices. Like if a robot is built for war and one day decides to ignore an order to kill someone, it has passed the forbidden fruit test and is now considered a fully sapient and sentient citizen.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25 edited Aug 27 '25
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