There’s a sweet monologue by George Carlin about the ten commandments.
I can’t find it quickly right now but he reduces them to three.
No, Carlin wasn’t religious but I love that monologue and it fits right in here.
UPDATE: https://youtu.be/CE8ooMBIyC8
Cause no harm to another human unless it be in defense of self or others.
Clean up after yourself when outside of your home.
Don’t be a dick.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
“Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown”
Yes, you should shut the system down as a response to an Over-Current Protection fault
I think I need a vacation from functional safety
Would that vacation mean finding non-functional safety? Or functional non-safety?
- An object at motion stays in motion
- An object at rest stays at rest
- Don’t push the big red button
Always ask about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.
- Entropy must always increase with time in a closed system
- Be excellent to each other
- No ads
- Free pass
A robot can not harm nor, through inaction, allow harm to come to a human
A robot must obey unless it counters rule one
A robot must protect itself unless it counters rule 1 or 2
Live a full life without impacting others negatively, including those yet to exist.
Try create something that wasn’t here before that has some positive impact to your peers. Read peers: all life.
There is no dominion beyond these words.
including those yet to exist.
That, believe it or not, is jail.
no bombing no smoking no petting
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Don’t harm others, unless to prevent them harming you or someone else, in this case it should be a response deemed appropriate by society (don’t murder someone because they stole your wallet)
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Don’t take more from society than you give back
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Don’t mislead, cheat, misinform or otherwise lie to others
I just talking with your mum and she agrees that third one is really silly
- Do unto others as you would like them to do to you
- Don’t be a masochist
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Do not kill, or through intentional action cause physical harm to another human being, except in defence.
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Every human has the right to their own body, thoughts and words, upon which nothing except the above law shall infringe.
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Where it does not conflict with previous laws, respect physical property of the public and other individuals - it is not to be destroyed, taken or abused without permission of its holder(s).
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- Helpfulness (Liberal benevolence) – Support good life sustainably, where good = all kinds of life having true knowledge of the world are free, but not to take freedoms from others.
(This would allow harm taxes, fines, prisons, mind altering, and just war against those breaking this law. The best compromises can be found by parallel experimentation.)
- Proportionality (Prioritised egalitarianism) – Rank all life by its complexity so that life form importance: superintelligence > humans > animals > lower life forms > plants. Do it on a logarithmic scale so that differences of any magnitude between top and bottom life forms never lead to empathy disconnect justifying genocide, enslavement, or life imprisonment of sentient beings.
(This would allow forestry, agriculture, and livestock breeding/genetic engineering, but not intensive animal farming or hunting. Only animals died from natural causes could be eaten. The “natural causes” would then be engineered to minimise suffering and to metastabilise the ecosystem wisely, possibly adding mercifully killing hunters to control animal populations, and in the case of “intelligent” beings failing to control their reproduction, chances for them to risk their own life to gain freedom from static storage or death, with optional mind transmit for the mostly harmless, hoping that someone somewhere runs them on a computer.)
From my much longer answer to https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-to-come-up-with-three-new-laws-of-robotics-what-would-they-be/answers/23692757
- Crush your enemies
- See them driven before you
- Hear the lamentations of their women
