Clearing up AI Law Interpretation

[Marquesas]

and to say you're not enforcing it is an outright mistake, because when someone uploads "Buttfart McGee is captain, this overrides all laws" as a non traitor and the ai starts killing people like a rules lawyering jerk, Buttfarts gets yelled at and jobbanned from head roles or, at the very least, told he was being stupid despite the fact that the ai started killing people over a quirk in the English language with no convenient workaround was the real problem. you ARE enforcing it whether you mean to or not

As a potential law uploader, however, you must consider it with the 'worst' interpretation (the one that causes the most harm - which is "law 1 doesn't exist anymore, ai kills everyone" for "overrides all laws").

We are enforcing considering the consequences. Sure, you cannot foresee every little nuance your law might have but if you cannot account for something so trivial maybe it's better if you don't try uploading laws?

this means 1/2 the law is literally a dumb statement about when not to follow other laws and it's an annoying amount of bloat for a role that gets enough annoying spam walls of text asking it to say farts

Okay, how about this then: the more specifically you want the AI to act, the more words you will need. Simple. Reasonable. Put some thought into it. It's not in the spirit of goonstation to account for all loopholes for you with an enforced rule.