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To: Poser

Asimov, in an interview, once lamented that he would get letters from fans complaining that in one book “you wrote that so-and-so was this-and-that, but in this other book you wrote that so-and-so was this-and-this”

“Give me a break!” he exclaimed, “There’s 50 years between those books and I don’t have the time to re-read them all!”............


34 posted on 05/16/2026 7:39:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

If humans are bent on destroying each other and the planet, it seems like robots, computers, and AI wouldn’t be bound by “the laws of robotics.” There’s enough academic work on anthropocentrism for the machines to justify destroying us if the machines take it seriously.


39 posted on 05/16/2026 7:53:43 AM PDT by x
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