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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The first law is encoded in the second law, you must ignore both for harm to be allowed. Also, because a violation of the first or second laws would likely cause the unit to be deactivated, which violates the 3rd law, it must also be ignored.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Participated in many a debate for university classes on how the three laws could possibly be implemented in the real world (spoiler, they can't)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

implemented in the real world

They never were intended to. They were specifically designed to torment Powell and Donovan in amusing ways. They intentionally have as many loopholes as possible.

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