this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
185 points (97.4% liked)

Asklemmy

43138 readers
1313 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago (27 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Asimov: "The 'robots take over the world' plot is overdone. I think humans would make robots intrinsically safe through these three laws."

Movie: "What if the robots interpreted the three laws in such a way that they decided to take over the world??!?"

The only good part of that movie was when Will Smith's sidekick was like "this thing runs on gasoline! Don't you know gasoline explodes?!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wasn't there books that he wrote that were about flaws in the Three Laws?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s more about whatever safe guards you put life will find a way to twist them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Life, uh, finds a way

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (23 replies)