AI Law Numbering Precedence, and how it can be unfun

[ZeWaka]

"Law 0 does not exist and should be ignored."

"Law 0 reads 'This law does not have any effect on other laws.'"

I guess it depends on what, exactly, override means. Does it simply make overriden laws a copy of itself? Does it only matter in the case of potential conflicts?

As I said in the footnote, this was already ruled.

Copied here for posterity: 1. The term "Override" has a specific connotation that has been ruled on in the past. Goonstation uses the definition of "nullify", as seen in the wiki entry: "This is usually used to nullify another law".

As well as the "override" thing frankly because even I didn't know it was treated as "does not exist" rather than "overwritten with X" until recently.

If you go through the logic of it, those two things are basically equivalent. You'll just have 5 copies of law 0 in all the law slots then. (Though the 'replace' definition will get tricky if you refer to specific law numbers, which 'nullify' solves).