[extropy-chat] I Robot commercial

Damien Broderick thespike at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 21 02:23:01 UTC 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal Finney" <hal at finney.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:53 PM

> During the trailers preceding LOTR they showed a fake "commercial"
> for the NS-5, "the world's first fully automated domestic assistant".
> At first I wasn't sure it was fake, until they flashed up "3 Laws
> Safe!" as a selling point. 

> As I recall, I, Robot was actually a short story collection mostly about
> the various ways robots could go wrong despite being "three laws safe".

Quite. That would be irony. (In American cinemas? Strange, I know.)

Damien Broderick




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