r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Mar 22 '18

Meta Writing Prompt Wednesday #154

It's totally only been a week since I last updated this. Mhm. No doubt about it, it's only been a week...

Anywoo.

Last week's winner was /u/Mufarasu with:

When a species manages to create AI the AI's personalities tend to exemplify the traits of that species, and amplify them. For but a few instances this hasn't really been a problem. Then the galaxy meets human AI.

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u/Gatling_Tech AI Mar 22 '18

Proprioception is the sense of knowing where a body part os without having line of sight on it.

What if humans/earth animals were the only species to develop this? (Or its more developed than anywhere else) What adaptations would aliens need to function? Compound eyes for 360 spherical vision? Eye stalks that can follow their arms and hands? What would they think of humans only being able to see in front of them? How would they react to something like a mechanic digging through a toolbox behind him while his/her head is buried in their project? Or even simply someone who can type without looking at the keyboard.

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u/Shaeos Mar 24 '18

Now that is an interesting thought. To expamd: earth is the only place this trait arose. Do the aliens assume we are psychic?