1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
scrap their knees
I'm with you overall, but I'm gonna say, let the the kids keep their knees.
Slashdot summary:
in theory, it should be possible to construct one
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Yet, despite the pressure and temperature gradients all the way down, despite having a liquid, molten outer core and a radioactive nickel-iron-cobalt inner core at over 4000 F, lets assume youve gone and physically created created something that will stabilize your cylindrical shaft going right through the Earths center.
nothing on these augmented displays will look right except from the driver's perspective
And only from one head position!
Every time some concept car âoeinventsâ video-cameras-instead-of-mirrors, I wonder whether it's occurred to anyone that mirrors show a different view depending on the position of the viewer. Is that so fundamental that we just forget it entirely?
Yes; I expect it disrupt my lifetime.
What?
This kind of tax could set back the country's technological development by some 20 years â" to the pre-internet age.
20 years ago was 1994. I used the internet in 1994.
This kind of tax could set back the country's technological development by some 20 years Ã" to the pre-internet age.
According to what? Your pseudorandom hyperbole generator?
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.