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That's not troubling at all (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was Asiimovs books, but apparently not. Which one had the 3 fundamental rules lead to the solution basically being: "Humans can not truly be safe unless they're extinct" or something along those lines... Been a long time since I've explored the subjects.

[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I mean... Kind of Asimov's robot series? Except the androids/robots were trying so hard to stay to the rules and protect humans but at every chance they could humans fucked that up or refused to see the plan.

At least as I recall, the robots basically came up with multi-millenia spanning plans that would solve all of humanity's problems and then humans were like: "Cool. But what if we made robots detectives and they could also target people we don't like?" Then the robots fucked off for a while and a bunch of stuff happened and... Yeah. Asimov wrote a lot of books.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

That's a bit like plot of I, Robot the movie, which has practically nothing to do with I, Robot the book. Asimov's robots would never do that.