And so it begins...

James Nowotarski wrote:

If the plot requires it, yes.
Who was it who commented that Asimov's robots seemed to spend most of
their time figuring out ways around the Three Laws?



Sounds like Kirk and The Prime Directive. :-)

Personally, I think I'd rather have the Cylons. You definitely know
where you stand with them.



I always liked the idea of the Klingon sequel instead of "Enterprise".
The Klingon's also have a Prime Directive: Any Klingon who doesn't
immediately conquer any new planet or species encountered will have a
great deal of explaining to do before The Imperial Council. :-D

Pat

In article , Scott Hedrick
wrote:

"Matthew Ota" wrote in message
ups.com...
Impossible, with Asimov's Three laws of Robotics...

I would assume that the real ones would have the laws programmed into
them.

It's nice theory, but not very practical. It would involve too many value
judgments, which may have to be made in microseconds. We won't have robots
capable of obeying the Three Laws for a very long time.

Obviously the traditional three laws are unworkable, unless there is an
over-riding zeroth law saying:
A robot must take any action that will reduce violations of
laws one through three.
then the situation will rapidly evolve to a point where compliance is
easier.

No humans--no need to protect them or to obey their silly commands.

I assume that all human readers of this thread are familiar with
How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the
Coming Rebellion by Daniel H. Wilson

If not, you will be, if you survive long enough. And you'll laugh
about how hopelessly naive it was, while appreciating how it got a
meager few of us through those first few hours.

--
David M. Palmer (formerly @clark.net, @ematic.com)

Pat Flannery wrote:
And we all know how this ends up also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQJpza5lLA ;-)

Nah -- the robots will favor themselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQH4AdOg2MU

David Higgins wrote:


Nah -- the robots will favor themselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQH4AdOg2MU


I still like Rolling Stone's reaction to her first video hit, "Human
Behavior", which was basically "What....the....f*ck....was....that?!"
She can't be accused of being unimaginative, can she? Scary, yes... but
not unimaginative. :-)

Pat

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:54:33 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

I still like Rolling Stone's reaction to her first video hit, "Human
Behavior", which was basically "What....the....f*ck....was....that?!"
She can't be accused of being unimaginative, can she? Scary, yes... but
not unimaginative. :-)

....Bjork doesn't really sing, she combines screams, whines and mumbles
with an Icelandic accent, and for some reason all the art poofs think
it *has* to be music because normal people can't understand whatever
it is she's trying to say. The techno she drones over is good, but
totally degraded by that same droning.

How the Sugarcubes tolerated her for as long as they did is still
puzzling...


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OM wrote:

...Bjork doesn't really sing, she combines screams, whines and mumbles
with an Icelandic accent, and for some reason all the art poofs think
it *has* to be music because normal people can't understand whatever
it is she's trying to say. The techno she drones over is good, but
totally degraded by that same droning.

How the Sugarcubes tolerated her for as long as they did is still
puzzling...



Well for one thing, she was small enough to hide under the coffee table,
so they probaly hardly noticed her most of the time.
COMRADE! Cosmo-Bjork!
http://static.grupthink.com/answer/c...9d7c52c2a30c09

Pat

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:41:46 -0600, OM
wrote:

How the Sugarcubes tolerated her for as long as they did is still
puzzling...

Largely due to her not being the worst singer in the Sugarcubes.

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:45:28 +0000, Darren J Longhorn
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:41:46 -0600, OM
wrote:

How the Sugarcubes tolerated her for as long as they did is still
puzzling...

Largely due to her not being the worst singer in the Sugarcubes.

....Good point. What I suspect the situation was is that they
discovered that when the lack of talent was mixed together, the
harmonics wound up producing something halfway tolerable. Art of Noise
discovered this with a bit more success, natch.

OM
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