| abstract | - Through their everday experiences, droids would gradually begin to develop personality and independence, even overriding their programming. Most droid owners did not want this, so they prevented it by performing regular memory wipes. Droids tended to dread the procedure. Some evidence, however, suggested that not performing memory wipes could have beneficial effects. One such benefit was that the droid became better at inferring the wishes of its master, increasing its efficiency and accuracy. Also, droids with accumulated memories were often more effective because of their increased practical knowledge and real-world familiarity. Technicians working on Luke Skywalker's X-wing found that because Skywalker refused to wipe R2-D2's memory, the droid was needed to decipher diagnostics from the X-wing; at the same time, communication between Artoo and the ship had greatly improved over time.
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