Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00300
To: mesiti@pbq.com.au, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:47:14 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Isaac Asimov's 3 rules of robotics
Hey, wasn't that is that book "I, robot"? I've never read through the whole
thing, only a page or two. I guess it was just the title that attracted me.
Sorry for this "waste of space".
-TurtleTek
"Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you
do not know it. This is knowledge."
- K'ung-fu Tzu (Confucius)
mesiti@pbq.com.au writes:
> The three rules of robotics
> 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or , through inaction, allow a
> human being to come to harm.
> 2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where
> such orders would conflict with the First Law.
> 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does
> not conflict with the First or Second Law.
> Isaac Asimov's
> Strange. This was just a by the way message.
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