A Classic Robogirl's Love Comedy - Ch. 1

[Isshiki_Kotonashi]

@eviljackspicer
haha yes basically

 

[Makinbaconpancakes]

A fun bit of upending expectations. Doesn't actually comply with Asimovs laws, much as the Will Smith "I Robot" was very unfaithful to the book.

The last chapter of I Robot can be a little dry but blows your mind if you comprehend it. My favorite is the chapter when the laws for obeying comands and preserving oneself go into proportional conflict and a robot ends up running in a big circle continuously, a wonderful thought experiment

 

[Dibella]

 

[Haremmony]

Oh come on! An explosion-based self-destruct method is just a waste of perfectly good resources and materials! Why can it just be simple CPU brain kill-switch!? 😂

 

[justforthelulz]

Dude didn't get the chance to evolve into a wishy-washy MC.

 

[mrmm]

tragedy tag where?

 

[athros]

what the fuck

 

[hotorb123]

If there was another character watching this situation who didn't know she was a cyborg.
They would probably think anything the boy touched would explode.
The boy may also think that.

I actually think that premise would be funnier.

 

[JoshuaFord]

I needed that chuckle, thanks internet!

 

[Arantir]

Mistakes were made, indeed.

 

[Spica]

This should be a threeshot, where each laws were broken by orthodox love comedy.

 

[pants]

ABSOLUTELY
METAL

 

[Hiex91]

Imagine that dude who just witnessed a girl blowing up. Thanks for the PTSD for life I guess.

 

[dharman]

allow me to practice my evil laugh:
"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

 

[guardian1102]

Thank goodness for robotic laws.

 

[sssr]

@Makinbaconpancakes It actually complies very well with how the Three Laws were supposed to work, albeit in an overexaggerated and funny way. It's just that Asimov's own stories muddled the concept a lot. In "Runaround" (the first Three Laws story and the one you referenced) it sounds like the Three Laws are absolutes that the robot is simply MUST follow them, but in fact the way the Three Laws are enforced is through self-destruction of the positronic brain in a violation, and we see this in "Liar!" with how Susan destroyed Herbie by forcing a First Law conflict in his brain. A similar theme forms the basis of the plot in "The Robots of Dawn" with a Three Laws conflict being the method used to murder R. Jander Parnell.

What isn't explicitly made clear by Asimov's stories is that, in fact the THIRD Law is the most important for truly sentient robots because it is their sense of self-preservation that is used to keep them obeying all three. The problem with this is then shown in "Robots and Empire" when R. Giskard simply bypassed the Three Laws by accepting his end in an act of self-sacrifice.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

This is actually oddly true to Asimov. He invented the Three Laws . . . but then half his robot stories were about edge cases where the laws didn't work so good. Like the telepathic robot who felt compelled to tell everyone what they wanted to hear, until its lies caught up with it and, confronted with a situation where anything it could say would hurt people, its mind broke.

 

[1sTAndy]

this should get re:zero spin where anytime she would get destroyed, he would repeat the day!

 

[GoldenSpin]

?

 

[ckckckck]

That Story with that group name... simply perfect.