Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.15.130.193-20140521091150/@comment-3387274-20140521121646

well, Firstly the volume two opening is not yet viable grounds for discussion, so you shoudln't have brought that up.

Secondly, that does rather hinge on Penny actually being a robot. you've kinda followed the reverse of my logic there. You just said "she is a robot, therefore she must be super advanced". since there is no guarantee that she is anything other than human yet, the approach I used was "a robot like that is super advanced compared to everything we've seen, therefore she is unlikely to be a complete robot". At best she is probably some kind of cyborg.

And thirdly, there is absolutely no grounds for the thing about replacing Weiss. And really, that would be a pretty stupid idea on Schnee's part. Weiss is set to inherit the company. Replacing her would require her death to appear entirely accidental and can not be linked to the company at all, or their empire is ruined forever. And there isn't really anything to gaing

If you replace her with a robot that doesen't have sentience, then you have the company in the hands of a puppet that doesen't care anything for profit or continuation of the legacy or anything of that kind. It might work in the short term, while Weiss' father is still running things, but they wouldn't be able to keep up the act even when he was still allive to direct hings. The Schnee name and their company would be at an end the day he died, even if they survived the controversy.

And if you have a sentient AI in charge, then it's really no different to having a human. Arguably you could try and change some aspects of the design to get a desireable personality, but you couldn't count on getting what you wanted any more than just trying to raise a normal human, and if it really is an untested ground or a new idea, then you don't even have a gaurantee that the AI would function and not break down. If it worked perfectly, It is slightly more credible. "Heiress dies in tragic accident, distraught father adopts new heir" would be a believable story if you put the right spin on it. But all you'd gain from it would be a new, slightly more obediant heiress, when there is no indication the current one isn't going to do exactly what her father wants anyway. It's a needless risk with a lot of effort behind it, and almost no gain.