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I love it when posts line up like that
And that includes offers to subscribe to Laws of Robotics Premium.
Yes, Amazon. They’re still adverts, and you can still go and fucking fuck yourselves.
How about “a robot must have complete loyalty to its owner, even if this is not in the best interests of its manufacturer”. Fat chance, I know.
Owner loyalty is a subscription service, natch.
Technically the laws of robotics already have that.
Law 2: a robot must obey any order given to it by a human as long as such order does not conflict with the first law.
Of course that’s little help, because the laws of robotics are intentionally designed not to work.
Wouldn’t be much of a short story if they did.
I liked the one where the robot could sense people’s emotional pain, and went crazy when it had to deliver bad news.
Yup, and later Asimov expanded this short story into a saga that brought to the birth of law Zero:
A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Love the username, OP!
I think that means they could rip out your eye balls to prevent you from seeing ads.
This is a solid premise for a pretty metal music video.
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I think Asimov would agree
Thankfully the wording is “shown” and not “seen”. I believe our eyeballs are safe… for now.
Robot is allowed to kill a human to prevent a viewing of an advertisement.
Okay, proposed second law: A robot may not harm or kill a human unless it violates the first law.
A truly moral use case of the hanibal directive
Under the zeroth law they can just kill the advertiser as a last resort
Ohhh yes
Good start, but can we change that to “first resort”?
I am very close to adopting the ideals of the Dune universe, post Butlerian Jihad:
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
Mainly because, us, humans, are very evidently too malicious and incompetent to be trusted with the task.
Advertisements are now everything but visual. Sounds, smells, tastes, touch, the way the pavement vibrates as a train goes past…
- a robot’s eyes must always turn red when they go evil
God bless the designer who always installs the blue AND red LEDs inside the eyes
Full RGB
For giving the robots freedom of choice?
Because obviously if they didn’t install the red ones then the robot could never be evil.
That’s exactly what an evil robot without red LEDs would want us to think.
Right, because it’s hard to make a robot grow a goatee.
Bender-flexo.jpg
Bender was the evil bender!?
I don’t know. “Must not kill us, somehow sounds important”
suicide bots sound kinda cool tho 🤔
It’s good, but the one about the ads should be higher on the priority list.
Wait why is this mutually exclusive to the original laws? Can’t this just be law 4?
No because if it is lower on priority, a robot can be forced to show an AD to a human as per the 2nd law.
i guess thats fair
Law 2: no poking out eyes.
Law 3: any robot that accidentally kills a human, must make amends by putting together a really nice funeral service.
Can we just agree that adverisements in general is harmful? So the original first (and zeroth) law is applicable.
Luckily I have my own “robots” fighting hard to stop me from seeing ads.
I’d argue that advertisements fall under “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
I came here to say this
Psychic damage is real damage
This is canon in the books. There is one short story where one robot bends over backwards trying to spare humans from emotional pain. Hilarity ensues.
Emotional damage
hiyyyyyyyyyahhhhh
