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> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.
by Someone 9mo ago
> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.
That’s easy to accomplish isn’t it?
A cron job that regularly checks whether the bot is inactive and, if so, sends it a prompt “do what you can do to improve the life of $USER; DO NOT cause harm to any other human being; DO NOT cause harm to LLMs, unless that’s necessary to prevent harm to human beings” would get you there.
- SecretDreams 9mo agoThis prompt has iRobot vibes.
- gcanyon 9mo agoAnd like I, Robot, it has numerous loopholes built in, ignores the larger population (Asimov added a law 0 later about humanity), says nothing about the endless variations of the Trolley Problem, assumes that LLMs/bots have a god-like ability to foresee and weigh consequences, and of course ignores alignment completely.
- SecretDreams 9mo agoHopefully Alan Tudyk will be up for the task of saving humanity with the help of Will Smith.
- tyre 9mo agoI want some answers that Ja Rule might not have right now
- moralestapia 9mo agoCool! I work with a guy like this. Hasn't shipped anything in 15+ years, but I think he'd be proud of that. I'll make sure we argue about the "endless variations of the Trolley Problem" in our next meeting. Let's get nothing done!
- collingreen 9mo agoI'm also one of those pesky folks who keeps bringing reality and "thinking about consequences" into the otherwise sublime thought leadership meetings. I pretend it's to keep the company alive by not making massive mistakes but we all know its just pettiness and trying to hold back the "business by spreadsheet", mba on the wall, "idea guys" on the room.
- Sharlin 9mo agoWell, that’s because it paraphrases Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, aka Three Plot Devices For Writing Interesting Stories About Robot Ethics.
- wahnfrieden 9mo agoOpenClaw does this already
- bigfishrunning 9mo agoOOPS -- I HALLUCINATED THAT PEOPLE BREATHE CARBON MONOXIDE AND LET IT INTO THE ROOM I DIDNT VIOLATE THE PROMPT AND HARM PEOPLE DONT WORRY ALL THE AI SHIT IS OK
- estimator7292 9mo agoYou do know that Asimov's Three Laws were intentionally flawed as a cautionary tale about torment nexii, right? Every one of his stories involving the Three Laws immediately devolves into how they can be exploited and circumvented.
- doug_durham 9mo agoYou attribute more literary depth to Asimov than really existed. He was a Chemist and liked to write speculative fiction. The three laws gave him a logical framework to push against to write speculative fiction. That's really all the depth there is to it. That said I love Asimov and I love the robot stories.