Status Updates From Blade Runner

this feels so apt to read rn given the state of ai…seems to be exploration on what makes humans human

Pretty good. I think I prefer the movie Blade Runner but the book is good as well.

didn’t realise this was blade runner’s source material

"You're a bounty hunter," Rachael said. "You can handle a laser gun - in fact you're carrying one
right now. If you can't protect yourself, how are you going to retire the six remaining Nexus-6 andys?
They're a good deal smarter than the Grozzi Corporation's old W-4."
"But I hunt them," he said. "This way, with a reversion clause on the owl, someone would be
hunting me." And he did not like the idea of being sta

"No," Rachael said instantly; behind her Eldon Rosen shook his head, backing her up. "That way
you'd have claim to the sole bloodline of owls for the rest of eternity. And there's another condition.
You can't will your owl to anybody; at your death it reverts back to the association."
"That sounds," Rick said, "like an invitation for you to come in and kill me. To get your owl back
immediately. I won't agree to

He continued, "Your husband likes the picture." Still the gauges failed to indicate a reaction. "The
girl," he added, "is lying face down on a large and beautiful bearskin rug." The gauges remained inert,
and he said to himself, An android response. Failing to detect the major element, the dead animal
pelt. Her - its - mind is concentrating on other factors.

She had, on her sharply defined small face, an expression of sullen distaste.

"What's the matter?" Rick said as he stepped from the parked car.
The girl said, obliquely, "Oh, I don't know. Something about the way we got talked to on the
phone. It doesn't matter."

Abruptly she held out her hand; he reflexively took it. "I'm Rachael Rosen.
I guess you're Mr. Deckard."
"This is not my idea," he said