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The Three Laws of Robotics.

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TheBiscuit:

--- Quote from: Kyronea on 05 Sep 2011, 13:19 ---I always find it hilariously sad when people try to quote Asimov's Three Laws as though they were useful when Asimov himself intended them as a representation of what sounds useful but really isn't at all, and people just don't understand.

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Yeah. Like I said above, they were at best a PR device for US Robots when they were introduced. The employees of the company admitted this. The ones who knew most about robots in the world, admitted this. They were only too well aware that the rules were intended to make humans worry less rather than to constrain the actions of robots.

Of course that doesn't mean that robots in his stories were dangerous, but the laws really are so far from infallible. Arguably the point of the stories is that the robots would have been much the same (and arguably more useful in some situations) without the laws. They still wouldn't cause harm to humans when given proper instructions.

Blackjoker:
I've seen a few interesting comics that deal with the three laws pretty well, but I think it might be bad form to link to other webcomics on a QC forum.

Carl-E:
Not in the least!  People do it all the time...

pwhodges:
Jeph even started a thread for readers to plug their own comics.

Blackjoker:
http://freefall.purrsia.com/default.htm

A friend introduced me to it, the militant agnostic teaching the robots about religion was one of their more interesting arcs.

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