Comment Asimov Wrote Mysteries -- Not SF (Score 1) 250
While it is popularly felt that Issac Asimov was writing Science Fiction with his robot stories, I posit that he was actually writing Locked Room Mysteries. You know the kind. The murder victim is in a locked room with no windows and only one door locked from the inside -- how was he murdered?
These "famous" laws seemed to say that Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong.
And then he broke those laws in virtually every story.
Fun fun reading.
But as a basis for building robots to coexist with us safely, not thinking that this is the plain vanilla approach that I'd use.
If anything, however, I'd say that Asimov's Laws, or something similar, would provide the basis for a Robot Moral Code -- which would be a very good idea for robots to have.
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