[extropy-chat] DAY AFTER TOMORROW meets Asimov

[Alfio Puglisi]

I'm some days behind with emails, and it seems that I replied to one that
was already discussed. Nevermind...

Alfio

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Alfio Puglisi wrote:

>On Sun, 30 May 2004, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
>>about the robots amok, I don't see that either. While it wasn't at the
>>forefront in his novels, his robots did, in fact, send ships all over
>>the galaxy committing genocide via terraforming against any number of
>>intelligent alien races, which is why in the Foundation series only
>>humans inhabit the galaxy. Daneel was no saint, nor were his comrades.
>>Their zeroeth rule only resulted in the rationalization of the deaths
>>of trillions of intelligent alien beings, who were judged not 'human'
>>only because they didn't have the look of homo sapiens.
>
>There isn't any like that in any book written by Asimov! Only in the End
>of the Eternity, it is suggested that a special timeline was selected for
>the humans where they would evolve faster than the aliens, and thus
>colonize worlds before them. There's one world that the robots helped
>destroy (the Earth...), but everything was set up by humans.
>
>Alfio
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