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NNadir

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3. Well I've done better at it than real robots, like Elon Musk's robots.

Reply to Thor_MN (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 21, 2016, 09:49 PM

Oct 2016

Musk's robot's incompetence has lead to a death.

The science fiction robot laws are just that, fiction.

Robots are sometimes designed to kill people, and sometimes they do. We have a lot of robotic killing machines.

There are many orders given by human beings that I have refused to obey, and would refuse to obey, were they given.

I will say that there are a "first law" and a "second law" that I have never violated, and couldn't even if I wanted to do so: The first and second laws of thermodynamics. (And incredibly beautiful laws they are.) Over the years I've been amused by some advocates of overturning the second law of thermodynamics, but it won't happen.

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Everytime I call up a paper on Physical Review at the library, the software wants me to prove... [View all] NNadir Oct 2016 OP

"Welcome to our Web site ! Please complete this Turing test to be granted full access." eppur_se_muova Oct 2016 #1

Could you be a robot? Thor_MN Oct 2016 #2

Well I've done better at it than real robots, like Elon Musk's robots. NNadir Oct 2016 #3