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Comment author: gwern 11 October 2012 06:04:54PM 5 points [-]

Which are quite unlike any kind of servant than a 16th century person could have imagined.

Sure. I mean, they would have had to have a classical education to have heard of Vulcan's metal servants, or have been rich before they could ever have heard of any clockwork automatons that were all the rage in the medieval, Renaissance or high Imperial ages. They could not possibly have imagined any thing like that...