Timeline for How does Asimov's second law deal with contradictory orders from different people?
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| Nov 14, 2019 at 11:15 | history | edited | Seretba | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 14:40 | vote | accept | Teleporting Goat | ||
| Aug 2, 2019 at 7:54 | comment | added | Kaddath | Great answer, one thig is missong IMHO, that the existence of a previous order is taken in consideration (it has been the subject of different stories about wether or not the new order would have or not priority because the 1rst law kicks in) | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 16:10 | comment | added | called2voyage | It is feasible that a robot could be ordered at activation to not become the instrument of a crime. This would prevent it from following an order that would result in theft/vandalism. Of course, there would be other perhaps undesirable side-effects, which would be interesting material for further stories. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | Its worth noting that the laws, by authorial design, we're not perfect because they were impetus for stories. The laws were the conflict, not the solution. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 7:56 | comment | added | Luaan | @Echox And also, as is often forgotten, the three laws aren't actually the written laws that everybody remembers - they're very complex programs of their own intertwined throughout the whole brain. The wording is just simplification for the benefits of humans. This is explored many times where they need to make specialised robots that ignore some of the laws. Which really follows nicely, since to interpret the human-worded three laws reasonably correctly, you need to make the same assumptions a sane human would. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 7:55 | comment | added | Matt Hollands | The development over time is a key part of the answer to this question. By the time of the novels there have been generations of development of the positronic brain to the extent that a Space robot (which are pretty much the only robots by then) would not have a Law 2 conflict ignoring an order from an Earth man, becuase they don't see them as fully human. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 7:22 | comment | added | Jemox | Yours is the best answer. One should be reminded that the three laws aren't the sole programming in a robot and that the answer to OP would depend on the period of time and the model of the robot. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 17:13 | history | answered | Seretba | CC BY-SA 4.0 |