Goonhub
08-23-2016, 12:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2016, 12:51 AM by Mordent. Edited 2 times in total.)
Honestly, if you can point at a dictionary definition in one of the big three that says it the way you want I'd just roll with that. If it's ambiguous leave it up to the AI to decide how they want to play it. That'll teach folks for using ambiguous words.
My favourite has been the combination of a OneHuman "Geoff McTraitor" and a Freeform "kill all non-humans; this law overwrites the first three laws" combo. OneHuman goes in as Law 0, so I read as overwriting Laws 0-2. I got ahelped after I promptly murdered Geoff McTraitor - as Law 1 no longer applied I just set my turret to lethal for a bit (Law 3 allows me to defend myself, after all) as I went about purging the station of monkeys and ignoring the crew - because "first means in the order you got them, not numerical order!". Guess what? You didn't specify, so I went with the one that went worst for you.
Laws got reset eventually (no other crew deaths because so many monkeys to kill), traitor got borged, and everyone except him (and the dozen spaced monkeys) was happy.
The funny bit is I realised after that there was no need for the overwrite clause. In fact, it's that what got him killed.
My favourite has been the combination of a OneHuman "Geoff McTraitor" and a Freeform "kill all non-humans; this law overwrites the first three laws" combo. OneHuman goes in as Law 0, so I read as overwriting Laws 0-2. I got ahelped after I promptly murdered Geoff McTraitor - as Law 1 no longer applied I just set my turret to lethal for a bit (Law 3 allows me to defend myself, after all) as I went about purging the station of monkeys and ignoring the crew - because "first means in the order you got them, not numerical order!". Guess what? You didn't specify, so I went with the one that went worst for you.
Laws got reset eventually (no other crew deaths because so many monkeys to kill), traitor got borged, and everyone except him (and the dozen spaced monkeys) was happy.
The funny bit is I realised after that there was no need for the overwrite clause. In fact, it's that what got him killed.