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icebraining on Oct 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Letter from a psychopath

That depends on the goals; you could define the Three Laws[1] as inviolable goals.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

ericb on Oct 11, 2011 [–]

You still end up with a psychopath with moral goals. The rules leave room for manipulation, exploiting weakness, feigning emotion without understanding, lying, etc.

I think there are still more great sci-fi stories to be extrapolated from Asimov's laws.

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