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WCDT strips 4211 to 4215 (2nd to 6th March 2020)
oddtail:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 07 Mar 2020, 07:03 ---Well, that's bizarre - Beeps just wanders in, Millefeuille admits that this will probably keep happening - but Elliot loudly announcing his (and Clinton's) entrance is treated as home invasion?! :?
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Yeah, the joke doesn't land for me at all because it strains credibility too much. Who hears a person come into a house openly and loudly and assumes "this is a burglar"?
Theta9:
My money's on Amber.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: St.Clair on 06 Mar 2020, 23:59 ---IMO, one of the tricky but Very Important things to do with anything running a version of the Three Laws is to somehow keep them from coming up with an entirely logical interpretation of the First - or formulating a version of the Zeroth - that involves taking away all human freedom, for our own good / to protect us from ourselves and each other.
Because really, we'd all be so much safer (in both/all senses of the word) if we spent our entire lives locked into Matrix pods or something.
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"With Folded Hands", Jack Williamson.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 07 Mar 2020, 19:06 ---"With Folded Hands", Jack Williamson.
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Exactly. I thought of that story when talking about “Little Lost Robot” earlier. “Nestor” doesn’t have the “...or through inaction allow a human to come to harm” clause in the First Law. “With Folded Hands” is the logical result of really thoroughly applying that clause.
Case:
--- Quote from: Dngrsone on 02 Mar 2020, 08:47 ---Maybe she wore padded pants before getting her implant and hasn't gone shopping for padless pants?
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Padded ... pants?
I recall padded jackets ... (One more reason to be grateful that FB didn't exist in the early 90s)
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