Maybe I’m crazy, but I never thought the 3 rules were even the point. I didn’t even think it was about robots per se. Asimov’s interest seemed to me to be more directed at the difficulties with systematizing morality into a set of logical rules. Robots are a handy symbolic tool for systemizing human behavior in thought experiments or fiction. I guess I could be reading too much into things, but really arguing about the 3 rules seems to me a bit like arguing about the proper arrangement of dilithium crystals in the Star Trek universe— it may be fun or interesting for the sake of a discussion, but it’s kind of not that important.
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