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[–] Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

IDK if I missed something or I just disagree, but I remember all but maybe one short story ending up with the laws working as intended (though unexpectedly) and humanity being better as a result.

Didn't they end with humanity being controlled by a hyper-intelligent benevolent dictator, which ensured humans were happy and on a good path?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Technically R Daneel Olivaw wasn't a dictator. Just a shadowy hand that guides.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

... Secret dictator then. Dr. Doom is similar.

Listen, people talk shit about rules of government but it doesn't really matter what the government is as long as the people get what they truly want that's beneficial to them and ideally our culture and environment.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was Asiimovs books, but apparently not. Which one had the 3 fundamental rules lead to the solution basically being: "Humans can not truly be safe unless they're extinct" or something along those lines... Been a long time since I've explored the subjects.

[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

I mean... Kind of Asimov's robot series? Except the androids/robots were trying so hard to stay to the rules and protect humans but at every chance they could humans fucked that up or refused to see the plan.

At least as I recall, the robots basically came up with multi-millenia spanning plans that would solve all of humanity's problems and then humans were like: "Cool. But what if we made robots detectives and they could also target people we don't like?" Then the robots fucked off for a while and a bunch of stuff happened and... Yeah. Asimov wrote a lot of books.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That's a bit like plot of I, Robot the movie, which has practically nothing to do with I, Robot the book. Asimov's robots would never do that.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

humanity being controlled by a hyper-intelligent benevolent dictator, which ensured humans were happy and on a good path?

Well that's better than the current path the world is on, let's switch to this one guys