| Winston Smith | 13 Jun 2016 3:36 p.m. PST |
link I always thought his Laws were pretty lame. |
dragon6  | 13 Jun 2016 3:47 p.m. PST |
I always thought his Laws were pretty lame. But safe |
 piper909 | 13 Jun 2016 4:21 p.m. PST |
Destroy all machines, smash all robots, Earth for the Earthlings! |
| Dave Jackson | 13 Jun 2016 4:24 p.m. PST |
That's actually sad that the reference is to the shitty movie rather than Asimov…. |
| Covert Walrus | 13 Jun 2016 5:12 p.m. PST |
The Three Laws are based pretty closely on the original machinery safety laws set up after the end of Prohibition. |
| dragon6 | 13 Jun 2016 5:22 p.m. PST |
That's actually sad that the reference is to the shitty movie rather than Asimov Yes. Yes it is |
| Zargon | 13 Jun 2016 5:37 p.m. PST |
In agreement. My formative years of Scifi were tutored by Asimov, the movie was pure Horrorywood smultz. |
| Waco Joe | 13 Jun 2016 6:29 p.m. PST |
Anyone else remember this guy?
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| dragon6 | 13 Jun 2016 6:49 p.m. PST |
Yes but I can't recall his origin… if there ever was one |
| Dynaman8789 | 13 Jun 2016 7:03 p.m. PST |
> I always thought his Laws were pretty lame. Yes, but only since coming to a definition "injure" is impossible to begin with and boy would Kirk have a field day with those laws, he could instantly shut down billions of robots with the first law alone. |
| rmaker | 13 Jun 2016 7:08 p.m. PST |
Note that Asimov himself played with the flaws in the Laws, as exampled in Little Lost Robot. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 13 Jun 2016 7:22 p.m. PST |
Magnus!!! my favorite comic book growing up. |
| dilettante | 13 Jun 2016 7:40 p.m. PST |
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| tnjrp | 13 Jun 2016 10:34 p.m. PST |
dragon6 13 Jun 2016 6:49 p.m. PST: Yes but I can't recall his origin… if there ever was one It was in the very first issue IIRC. Magnus was (an orphan probably but not sure if explicitly) raised by a sentient AND sapient robot, 1A, to fight robots that threatened humanity (inevitably, all robots that became either sentient and/or sapient ended up doing that) -- tho he did foil the plans of a couple of human and alien baddies on the side. It stated later on that only a superheroic human could do that. |
| IUsedToBeSomeone | 14 Jun 2016 1:29 a.m. PST |
The whole point of the 3 laws of robotics was to set up situations that could be used as story plots…. Mike |
| Winston Smith | 14 Jun 2016 4:54 a.m. PST |
They weren't very good stories either. I was never an Asimov fan. |
| Kelly Armstrong | 14 Jun 2016 7:15 a.m. PST |
Blasphemer! Stone him!!! Oh, he's already survived that? See if he floats then. |
| Zephyr1 | 14 Jun 2016 2:16 p.m. PST |
Asimov was smart enough to know that killer robots wouldn't be developed in his lifetime, but he wrote those rules as a "just in case" to buy a few extra years, just in case… ;-) |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 14 Jun 2016 3:25 p.m. PST |
Magnus was awesome when I was a boy. In the 1980s or 1990s, Valiant (I think) rebooted the series and wove together many of the same stories from the 1960s books. The story "With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson shows the dirty underside and likely outcome of Asimov's First Law of Robotics. (I'm not actually sure which came first, Asimov's or Williamson's story.) |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 15 Jun 2016 9:06 a.m. PST |
IIRC,Asimov "explained" it with the term, "positronic brain". He later admitted that he had no idea what it meant,but it sounded good. |
