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To: a little elbow grease

Seems like this robot broke the cardinal rule:
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Isaac Asimov’s 1st rule of robotics.


17 posted on 03/20/2018 6:47:32 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: BuffaloJack

How can it obey that rule if it can’t differentiate between a human being and a sack of potatoes?


22 posted on 03/20/2018 6:51:24 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: BuffaloJack

Skynet doesn’t care.


31 posted on 03/20/2018 6:56:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: BuffaloJack

Wonderful rule. Like ‘no guns for felons’. But who is gonna enforce it?


38 posted on 03/20/2018 6:58:51 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: BuffaloJack
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Isaac Asimov’s 1st rule of robotics.

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.... a reader, eh? That's very funny.

92 posted on 03/20/2018 8:23:38 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (A)
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