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"Considered harmful" has become a lazy writing device. There's nothing valid here that even says why these are harmful except possibly that they are "vague".
by dpark 8y ago
"Considered harmful" has become a lazy writing device. There's nothing valid here that even says why these are harmful except possibly that they are "vague". The only thing that looks even remotely like a real concern (that people, even scientists, believe these are somehow magically hard-wired laws) is not cited and appears to be entirely manufactured.
- Bubass 8y agoI think you may have missed the joke. The article explicitly calls out the word "harm", as it's used in the three laws, as being a source of vagueness, which the article then goes on to say becomes fodder for some of the conflicts in the stories.
- edent 8y agoI know. That's which I specifically linked to the rebuttal of the "considered harmful" trope. The very first link in my post points to a discussion of the lecture I attended. There the 3 laws were discussed and, I felt, some of the audience hadn't quite understood that they were a literary device. But go along to any AI discussion group in person, or read the popular press, and I promise it won't be too long before you find a human citing them.