Goonhub
01-14-2021, 03:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2021, 07:22 PM by Studenterhue. Edited 3 times in total.
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Recently merged, so now Law 3 by default reads "You may always protect your own existence as long as such does not conflict with the First or Second Law." Like original thread said, laws for Syndicate robot have not changed. Leaving this thread open for a while for feedback.
If it doesn't feel like things have really changed, that's the point. This is less a new policy and more rewording the rules to fit how we enforce them. (There was an example here about ordering silicons to commit suicide technically being within laws, but it turned out it was an unrelated thing). Technically, under the old word, you couldn't technically suicide if you didn't want to play cyborg or AI, but we didn't really enforce it as a Law 3 break. Similarly, under the old wording, cyborgs and AIs was technically forbidden to, say, fight a changeling or destroy a bomb, because that could endanger its life, but we never enforced it that way either, and obviously that's not what actually happens. Like urs said, "the intent of this change is to bring how the laws are written in line with how the rules are administered."
If it doesn't feel like things have really changed, that's the point. This is less a new policy and more rewording the rules to fit how we enforce them. (There was an example here about ordering silicons to commit suicide technically being within laws, but it turned out it was an unrelated thing). Technically, under the old word, you couldn't technically suicide if you didn't want to play cyborg or AI, but we didn't really enforce it as a Law 3 break. Similarly, under the old wording, cyborgs and AIs was technically forbidden to, say, fight a changeling or destroy a bomb, because that could endanger its life, but we never enforced it that way either, and obviously that's not what actually happens. Like urs said, "the intent of this change is to bring how the laws are written in line with how the rules are administered."
