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I read "I robot" the other day in order to find out more about this hardcore sci-fi you **** keep blathering on about. I thought it was quite ridicilous, so I decided to write a short mockery of it because I was bored and felt like typing something. I showed it to my friends and they said Im an idiot with too much time on my hands.

 

http://krotma.com/img/robotmockery.pdf

 

 

And keep in mind that real men never spellcheck or correct anything they write.

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"I suppose outright stupidity and complete lack of taste could also be considered points of view. "

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I read "I robot" the other day in order to find out more about this hardcore sci-fi you **** keep blathering on about. I thought it was quite ridicilous, so I decided to write a short mockery of it because I was bored and felt like typing something. I showed it to my friends and they said Im an idiot with too much time on my hands.

 

http://krotma.com/img/robotmockery.pdf

 

 

And keep in mind that real men never spellcheck or correct anything they write.

 

Asimov's fiction has always been a bit difficult for me to read. His memoirs were pretty good, though, and his nonfiction science stuff were pretty influential when they were current, in terms of getting kids into science. So, on the whole, yay Asimov.

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THE NED?

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No Kaftan, you're not tricking us into reading your fanfic, no matter how you disguise it.

 

Asimov wasn't ALL sci-fi, btw. His works on ancient Rome are ok.

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I tried reading "...electric sheep" by PKD aswell, but that was even worse. I didnt get past the part in the first chapter about how people have artificial pets on their roofs. Atleast Asimov didnt faff about so much until he got to the damn point. Even if that point is sort of disapointing at times, like when a robot breaks because it gets stuck in a loop between law 1 & 2. Dont they have QA in Asimovs future?

 

 

And the ned is totally intentional. I actually started with that and added the rest around it.

 

 

No Kaftan, you're not tricking us into reading your fanfic, no matter how you disguise it.

 

Dangit! You saw through my thinly painted facade already? I was just going to sort of ease it in until I got to the slash stuff. I have a real sweet idea about maybe an Arthur C. Clark/Stanley Kubrick story :)

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"I suppose outright stupidity and complete lack of taste could also be considered points of view. "

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arent you making a game taht involves making fun of history stufsf and what not kaftan?

 

how is that going?

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Read Valis from PKD, it's really cool! I never liked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or Asimov's I, Robot, although I quite enjoyed the Foundation series.

 

Also a boring short story I'm afraid, but very much in Asimov's style.. :grin:

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Androids... is PKD, not Asimov

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Even if that point is sort of disapointing at times, like when a robot breaks because it gets stuck in a loop between law 1 & 2. Dont they have QA in Asimovs future?
As I recall, their positronic brains have to be unstable in order to work, much like the people on this forum.

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Even if that point is sort of disapointing at times, like when a robot breaks because it gets stuck in a loop between law 1 & 2. Dont they have QA in Asimovs future?
As I recall, their positronic brains have to be unstable in order to work, much like the people on this forum.

 

So the people in Asimovs universe have a strong habit of leaving extraordinarily important, and possibly failiure-means-death-to-mankind, tasks to machines that are inherently unstable?! Thats increadibly stupid.

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I have posted this in another thread, but Asimov had a great sense of humor.

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I read it the other week actually, it ends

with the ultimate computer recreating the universe again.

Kind of anticlimactic when you think about it.

 

 

 

And if a positronic brain is inherently unstable, the three laws of robotics dont really matter since it will just glitch and disobey them whenever it gets a buffer overflow or whatever. I would have a killswitch instead that reboots the computer when the power fluctutates to indicate that the brain is glitching.

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"I suppose outright stupidity and complete lack of taste could also be considered points of view. "

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I read it the other week actually, it ends

with the ultimate computer recreating the universe again.

Kind of anticlimactic when you think about it.

 

 

 

And if a positronic brain is inherently unstable, the three laws of robotics dont really matter since it will just glitch and disobey them whenever it gets a buffer overflow or whatever. I would have a killswitch instead that reboots the computer when the power fluctutates to indicate that the brain is glitching.

 

Remind me not to expect Kaft's robots to do anything delicate or supervise a nuclear reactor.

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Well, while MY robots would just reboot and unglitch themselves- Asimovs would start a new religion, start to see humanity as a threat and decide to blow up the plant on purpouse. Mine are clearly superior.

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You're thinking of the robots in terms of a deterministic computer. I think Asimov's idea was that in order to be self-aware they'd have to be based on chaos theory or something like that.

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I actually dont think Asimov ever explained how the positronic brain works, other than that it uses positrons because he liked the word. They seem to use an organic/evolving AI though, but one that can also be programmed.. which doesnt make any sense since you cant program an AI like that anymore than you can a human brain, but its sci-fi so who cares?

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"I suppose outright stupidity and complete lack of taste could also be considered points of view. "

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I tried reading "...electric sheep" by PKD aswell, but that was even worse. I didnt get past the part in the first chapter about how people have artificial pets on their roofs. Atleast Asimov didnt faff about so much until he got to the damn point. Even if that point is sort of disapointing at times, like when a robot breaks because it gets stuck in a loop between law 1 & 2. Dont they have QA in Asimovs future?

Unfortunately the fiction you are reading is "of it's time" ... which is a cop out, kinda like saying "Isaac Newton was a smart guy, even though he stole calculus from that nice Leibniz fellow and believed he would successfully complete alchemy".

 

PKD was also a great ideas man. (Count the films made from his short stories.) We didn't think much of Electric Sheep, though the whole novel is a set-up for the

plot twist

, and the Ridley Scott film interpretation is a much better incarnation of the whole tale. (But only if you don't watch the dumbed-down original release with the Ford voice-over, which completely avoids the

plot twist

from the novel!)

I actually dont think Asimov ever explained how the positronic brain works, other than that it uses positrons because he liked the word. They seem to use an organic/evolving AI though, but one that can also be programmed.. which doesnt make any sense since you cant program an AI like that anymore than you can a human brain, but its sci-fi so who cares?

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