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Re: new TLD: .BOT

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Post by jsingleton »

toyg wrote: post #2

It would be awesome if Amazon could force registrants to contractually agree to follow Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics.

    That's fiction, Foster. Some guy made it up!
A cruise missile is a robot.

Re: new TLD: .BOT

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Post by bduerst »

bauc wrote: post #31
toyg wrote: post #2

It would be awesome if Amazon could force registrants to contractually agree to follow Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics.

That would be good in theory but might not be so good, interesting thoughts on the subject from Computerphile - Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PKx3kS7f4A

Wasn't that the entire, combined plot for the book I Robot?

That the three rules don't always work?

Re: new TLD: .BOT

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Post by ultramancool »

malka wrote: post #36
cryptoz wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For certain definitions of 'awesome'; we'd be inviting murder and deception and all manner of crime via robot. I think the lesson from Asimov is that we can't bank on a simple set of laws to protect us from killer robots. The zeroth law is most important, as well. If we try this route we'd have to be sure to implement that law first. > A robot may not harm humanity; or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.

the problem being definining what "harming humanity" means.

Do botnets qualify as "robots" and does "harming humanity" include DDoS attacks?

Re: new TLD: .BOT

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Post by [deleted] »

cryptoz wrote: post #26
toyg wrote: post #2

It would be awesome if Amazon could force registrants to contractually agree to follow Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics.

For certain definitions of 'awesome'; we'd be inviting murder and deception and all manner of crime via robot. I think the lesson from Asimov is that we can't bank on a simple set of laws to protect us from killer robots. The zeroth law is most important, as well. If we try this route we'd have to be sure to implement that law first. > A robot may not harm humanity; or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm.

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Re: new TLD: .BOT

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Post by germanier »

kuschku wrote: post #22
samstave wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who do they reserve them for? Deep pockets?

Exactly. For example, two-letter .de domains are far more expensive than normal ones – which is how DB and VW got theirs.

db.de (as well as ix.de, hq.de, and bb.de) was registered before the registration of two-letter was forbidden. After a lawsuit they had to give vw.de to Volkswagen which then led to permitting all short domains. Those were given out on a first-come, first-serve basis (i.e. to those with the best resources).

Re: new TLD: .BOT

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Post by 542458 »

bduerst wrote: post #44
bauc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be good in theory but might not be so good, interesting thoughts on the subject from Computerphile - Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PKx3kS7f4A

Wasn't that the entire, combined plot for the book I Robot ? That the three rules don't always work?

It's the combined plot for pretty much every Asimov book they appear in. That's discussed in the linked video, as well as the grand picture of why they don't really make sense as "laws" since they're basically impossible to define without first defining all of ethics.
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