Saturday 14 November 2020

Special Guest Blogger: Isaac Asimov

I am one of the all-time most recognizable names in science fiction, having written or edited more than 500 books and that one decent Will Smith movie but i also had a PhD in biochemistry, was the vice president of Mensa and wrote the Lecherous Limericks series, a collection of dirty limericks, some of even which began with there was a man from Nantucket.
What i am most famous for is foreseeing that at some point in the future, robots will need some sort of law to stop them killing us all and i came up with the three laws of robotics that governed the behavior of robots. The laws dictated that robots cannot injure a human being or allow a human being to come to harm, robots must obey the orders given to it by humans except where such orders conflict with the First Law and that a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
Even by the time i died robots were already assembling our cars and detonating our landmines which is great, them taking over tasks that we'd rather not do ourselves, and while that's great news for those of us that are too lazy to detonate our own landmines, it's not where they will end up because as robots get more intelligent it isn't a giant leap to think that one day one of them will think 'hang about, i am far superior to these feeble meat-bag humans in every way so why should i be subordinate to them' and start taking us out with its laser eyes or whatever we stupidly equip it with.
On the flip side, two words, Sex Robots.
In the real world computer nerds are given wedgies before skulking off home to sit in their bedroom and play computer games until 4am and under no circumstances would they get the girl unless she came with a foot-pump but in true techno-geek fashion, the pasty face brigade have given up trying to woo the female population with their knowledge of calculus and being able to recite the script from Star Wars, and have built there own girlfriends.  
I don't want to think if they be self cleaning like a cooker or dish washer but of course when we do create super intelligent robots and they do take over the world and enslave humans, they will obviously need to genetically engineer the humans they keep around as slaves and when they have created a race of brilliantly intelligent humans, we will re-enslave them back which will serve them right

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