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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:31:15 JST mcc

   Proposed new Laws of Robotics:

   1. A machine must never show an advertisement to a human, or through inaction allow an advertisement to be shown to a human

   If I think of a second Law of Robotics I'll let you know

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:31:35 JST mcc

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     For Law of Robotics #2 I'm considering "A machine must never mine a bitcoin, or through inaction allow a bitcoin to be mined"

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     Based on replies in this thread, here is an alternate proposed "three laws of robotics".

     1. A machine must never show an advertisement to a human, or through inaction allow an advertisement to be shown to a human.

     2. A machine shall never use more power to perform a job than would be used by an equivalent human.

     3. A machine must never present or refer to itself as though it were human, or through inaction allow a human to mistake it for one.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 04:51:43 JST mcc

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     Law 2 is per Amy Worall, law 3 is per the Witch of Crow Briar.

     I do not endorse these laws, but I would consider them "utopian", in the sense that a culture which endorsed these laws would be a culture organized along a clearly-formed ideology. You could easily imagine a spec-fic story about a culture that believed in these laws. Note these laws are necessarily laws for human designers, as the existence of a machine which can enforce them is ideologically inconsistent with law 3.

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