Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39492511-20190807174432/@comment-39854843-20190817083623

Granaatti wrote: what purpose would there be to give a android a programming that encourages her to run off from her handlers (several times) and trying to make friends with other people? None, but then again, programming often starts as one thing, and then develops into something else entirely. I imagine Penny could have been programmed to exhibit human tendencies, such as friendliness and rebeliousness, so that she could better blend in with society. This would be especially useful if she were intended to be a covert android, one that was designed to seem human for the purposes of espionage.

Programming like that has unintended side effects, such as Penny's misbehavior. They never designed her to explicitely run off, but they gave her the capacity to for other reasons. Take the internet, for example. Originally, it was programmed to be the ultimate research tool. But, over time, it turned into a massive reservoir for pornagraphy, and a platform for cartoons and dumb forums like the one we're on right now. Crazy, right?