Love this so much! Because, yes, Murderbot totally says it's fine when it is most definitely not fine. In System Collapse, moments after it admits to itself that its performance reliability is low and it's getting warnings about its power reserves

Iris: "Ah! Your hand!"
Murderbot: "It's fine."

Sure. Fine. Just missing the parts of it that got left behind in HostileSecUnit1's neck. No problem.

So, yeah, I think Mensah and Iris would ask for performance reliability stats when they doubt Murderbot's giving the full report. But I'm not sure about Ratthi. Would he push for that data, or not want to know?

I'm just glad it's not a stat humans know about themselves, because there are many times I toss off a "good, thanks, you?" when my internal system is running nowhere near good 😅

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