Re: The AI revolution

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Sat, 04 Jul 1998 00:30:30 -0700

Anders:
>> "except when in conflict with the Zero'th Law" is added to the first
>> 3 Laws.
>>
>This suggests a loophole in the original laws, that you can add higher
>level laws derived from the others, which was probably not intended by
>the human designers. Another unexpected feature; I can really
>understand why Susan Calvin decided to become a robot psychologist.

Perhaps so, but I suspect constructing a circumstance to justify same is about as easy as writing Godel's True but unprovable proposition.

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