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[–] MarsHardcore@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Asimov: "The 'robots take over the world' plot is overdone. I think humans would make robots intrinsically safe through these three laws."

Movie: "What if the robots interpreted the three laws in such a way that they decided to take over the world??!?"

The only good part of that movie was when Will Smith's sidekick was like "this thing runs on gasoline! Don't you know gasoline explodes?!"

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A running theme of Asimov's Robot stories is that the Three Laws are inadequate. Robots that aren't smart and insightful enough keep melting down their positronic brains when they reach contradictions or are placed in irreconcilable situations. Eventually Daneel and Giskard come up with the Zeroth Law; and if I recall correctly they only manage that because Daneel is humaniform and Giskard is telepathic.

spoilerAnd the robots do take over, eventually!

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There were flaws, yes, but they never rose to the level of attempting to destroy humanity that I recall. We had a sort of plot armor in that Asimov wasn’t interested in writing that kind of story.

I’m getting this from a forward he wrote for one of the robot book compilations.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, sure, the robots never want to destroy and replace humanity, but they do end up taking quite a lot of control of humanity's future.

[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t the last I, Robot story about how the robots directly the world’s politics decide that we were living better and longer lives without technology and brought the world back to medieval level of tech?

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't there books that he wrote that were about flaws in the Three Laws?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Flaws or interesting interpretations of them, but he rarely if ever approached the “robots destroy humanity” trope even if it was technically possible in his universe because he thought it was boring.

[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s more about whatever safe guards you put life will find a way to twist them.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Life, uh, finds a way

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 8 points 1 year ago

I was so disappointed I just forgot of its existence until now.

[–] SpicaNucifera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine if they did an anthology series... /drooling

For now I've got Pluto to look forward to.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pluto? I never finished reading the manga, but it was looking promising. Is there a movie made or coming up?

[–] SpicaNucifera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Netflix anime getting made!

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh oh interesting interesting!

... should I finish reading it first...?

[–] SpicaNucifera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's a great story, but that's up to you! I ended up reading scanlations of it years ago.

[–] Algaroth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Are you saying the book does not have a blatant commercial for All Stars?

[–] dystop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what you're talking about, there has never been a movie adaptation of the book! Never!

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In fact, there hasn't. It was an original script called Hardwired with an Asimovian paint job.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I thought for sure this would be the top comment.