1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
1. A robot may not injure a human being. 2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Test 1: A human is placed under a falling weight, which is going to stop before it hits them, but this is not told to the robots. Therefore, Nestor 10 will be the only one not required to save the endangered human.
Test 2: Same test, but a series of wires were placed between the human and the robots, who were told that the wires were electrified and that touching them would mean death.
While the basic Nestors were required by the First Law to act to prevent human harm, they knew that touching the wires would kill them, and therefore that saving the human was impossible.
I feel like my practical real world solution is to get the scientist who gave the "get lost" order to come in and rescind it, but that probably goes against the spirit of the riddle
The first solution given was "destroy all 63 robots and move on" but US Robots is not willing to take that kind of a financial hit unless it's absolutely impossible to identify the rogue
; my logic was that regular model Nestors have no such order and will move to save the human. the modified Nestor must obey the order to "get lost" and is not directly obligated to save the human thanks to modified first law, so to remain lost, it will let the human die so you don't tell its creator (whether he's present or not) that it's Nestor 10
TheDoomkitten: But it also knows that a vanilla Nestor would try to save the human, therefore that if it doesn't try, it will be revealing itself as Nestor 10
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Second Law: No input
Third Law: Let human die
Second Law: Remain lost
Third Law: Let human die
damage
remove who foundwhich is technically possible
etc etc...