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Smaug123yesterday at 7:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

Almost the entirety of Asimov's Robots canon is a meditation on how the Three Laws of Robotics as stated are grossly inadequate!


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DaiPlusPlusyesterday at 8:05 PM

It's been a long time since I read through my father's Asimov book collection, so pardon my question: but how are these rules considered "laws", exactly? IIRC, USRobotics marketed them as though they were unbreakable like the laws of physics, but the positronic brains were engineered to comply with them - which while better than inlining them with training or inference input - but this was far from foolproof.

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DonHopkinsyesterday at 7:51 PM

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