From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Sat Jul 04 1998 - 01:51:42 MDT
> Brent Allsop
>> So, what if a robot has this choice:
>>
>> Kill someone, and allow 100 others to live, or
>> not kill, and allow the 100 others to die.
>>
>> This would probably immobilize the robot, which is the worst choice,
>> so the Zero'th Law is:
>
> I would think that robots simply be subject to the same laws
>(or law) that we all try to adhear to. And that is simply to do the
>best possible. Part of that law is, to rationally reason and figure
>out what that best possible is as best as is possible. I think a
>robot could logically calculate that a person living is better than a
>person dieing and by induction that 100 people living and only one
>dieing is better than one person living and 100 dieing.
>
I never said Asimov's Laws had any use for practical robots!
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