Alan, Robot
POSTED BY: MdnightRadio7L
UPDATED: Sunday, April 18, 2004 04:07
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I have to agree; Asimov is probably turning in his grave. Of course there are situations where a robot might kill, but only to save more lives. The first rule is that a robot cannot harm a human, or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm, so if a robot for some reason was in a situation where more people would die if he didn't kill one, then it might be possible. However, I have a problem with the idea of a full robot rebellion. Asimov was always much more inventive about ways that robot disasters could occur than just "they got really mad." I sincerely hope that we are only seeing a part of the story and there is some Asimov-faithful explanation of how a full rebellion could happen, but I sure can't come up with one that's even halfway plausible.
Anyway, I'm still gonna see the movie to support Alan, and just to see what they did. Hope I'm not disappointed.
Book: I'd forgotten - you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now.
Simon: No, but I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
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