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From: ech@pyuxll.UUCP (Ned Horvath)
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Subject: Re: Three Laws needed
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Date: Sun, 14-Aug-83 18:08:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 14 18:08:54 1983
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You have the question the wrong way around.  History has demonstrated
that an entity with intelligence comparable to that of a human being
cannot be easily held by mere physical restraints.  You will NEED to
build in the three laws simply because it won't be practical to physically
restrict (intelligent) robots.

Of course, history has also demonstrated that it is difficult to program
humans with the three laws; they translate quite nicely into what most
governments would accept as a definition of "patriotism."

=Ned=