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Almost the entirety of Asimov's Robots canon is a meditation on how the Three Laws of Robotics as stated are grossly inadequate!
by Smaug123 11mo ago
Almost the entirety of Asimov's Robots canon is a meditation on how the Three Laws of Robotics as stated are grossly inadequate!
- DonHopkins 11mo agoOG Torment Nexus
- ddellacosta 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus
- astrange 10mo agoSilly concept because as written it's a reference to the Total Perspective Vortex from HHGTTG. But in the story, when that was used on Zaphod, it turned out to be harmless!
- DaiPlusPlus 11mo agoIt's been a long time since I read through my father's Asimov book collection, so pardon my question: but how are these rules considered "laws", exactly? IIRC, USRobotics marketed them as though they were unbreakable like the laws of physics, but the positronic brains were engineered to comply with them - which while better than inlining them with training or inference input - but this was far from foolproof.
- ceejayoz 11mo agoThey're "laws" in the same sense as aircraft have flight control laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes There are instances of robots entirely lacking the Three Laws in Asimov's works, as well as lots of stories dealing with the loopholes that inevitably crop up.