• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    If you’ve ever actually read any of the books you’d know that using these laws as actual laws is a dumb move. The paradoxes caused by them are a pretty central theme.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah like one of the stories in i Robot, the people were going die because the robot couldn’t break one of the three rules and went haywire. Think that was the issue in most of the stories.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        Latter stories had Daneel Olivaw lawyering his way around the laws. Then there was a schism where some robots thought he misinterpreted them, went too far. Then the Zeroeth law came around adding more twists.

        It’s been 20-years since I read all that. Tell me if I’m wrong.