• latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Uuh… skipping over the fact that this is a pointless article, didn’t Asimov himself write the three laws specifically to show it’s a very stupid idea to think a human could cover all possible contingencies through three smart-sounding phrases?

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      3 months ago

      Most of the stories are about how the laws don’t work and how to circumvent them, yes.

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      3 months ago

      Asimov had quite a different idea.

      What if robots become like humans some day?

      That was his general topic through many of his stories. The three laws were quite similar to former slavery laws of Usa. With this analogy he worked on the question if robots are nearly like humans, and if they are even indistinguishable from humans: Would/should they still stay our servants then?