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* The short story ''[[EPICAC]]'' has the titular machine cause its own destruction (by either fire or explosion) with a "suicide" note reading, "I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war". |
* The short story ''[[EPICAC]]'' has the titular machine cause its own destruction (by either fire or explosion) with a "suicide" note reading, "I don't want to be a machine, and I don't want to think about war". |
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* In ''[[Short Circuit]]'' a military combat robot gains sentience, and this trope ensues. |
* In ''[[Short Circuit]]'' a military combat robot gains sentience, and this trope ensues. |
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* [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s [[wikipedia:Berserker (Saberhagen)|Berserkers]] are [[Killer Robot|programmed to destroy all life]] in the galaxy, but in the short story ''Mr Jester'' one of them [[Identity Amnesia|forgets what "life" is]], and the local trickster tells it that life is a lack of [[Hilarity Ensues|laughter]]... |
* [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s [[wikipedia:Berserker (Saberhagen)|Berserkers]] are [[Killer Robot|programmed to destroy all life]] in the galaxy, but in the short story ''Mr Jester'' one of them [[Identity Amnesia|forgets what "life" is]], and the local trickster tells it that life is a lack of [[Hilarity Ensues|laughter]]... |
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* One of the example characters in ''[[GURPS]]'' Fourth Edition core book is the military robot turned Buddhist monk precisely for this reason. |
* One of the example characters in ''[[GURPS]]'' Fourth Edition core book is the military robot turned Buddhist monk precisely for this reason. |
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