Aaand now now I'm imagining manic-depressives doing embroidery.

That would be a different Galactic Empire.

"A crushing lack of empathy, is the most dangerous behavioral trait that has ever emerged from a newl generation of humans."

Emerged? It's always been there. When you look back at history, empathy for those not part of your in-group has *always* been rare, sometimes close to non-existent.

Kill the mutant. Destroy the alien. Burn the heretic.

No, you don't understand. Fairness for *people* is "woke". Fairness for those poor corporations who are not getting a chance at federal money is noble.

Your math, is, alas, wrong. 99% is one in one hundred. 99.9% is one in one thousand. 99.99% is one in ten thousand. 99.98% is two in ten thousand or one in five thousand, as the OP stated.

So, the Day After Tomorrowland?

Dragnets are illegal? Jack Webb's gonna be very disappointed.

"But they were so much *cheaper* than AWS! Two providers each with a copy? Do you think I'm made of money?"

I mean, calling them "heavy" is just hurtful.

See Jack Williamson's "The Humanoids", which he wrote in reaction to Asimiv's stories and made precisely that point.

. "Second rule: To obey humans, such that it doesn't achieve agency and aspiration on its own. And the third: To do what humans tell it"

Isn't that the same thing?

The Third Law was that robots must protect their own existence (except where that would conflict with the First or Second Law).

I don't want to be weain' no rabid fungus!

You seem to be under the impression that the "master" these days is on analog film. It ain't. It's a digital computer file. There is no difference between "master" and "copy of the master". And as someone else has said, the problem isn't that they don't have other copies of the master, it's that somebody who's not them has a copy of the master and can churn out perfect pirate copies.

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