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[–] 26 points 1 year ago

Asimov never intended the three laws to be practical.

He wrote them specifically so they'd break in interesting ways for Susan Calvin to analyse, or annoying ways to torture Powell and Donovan in a way that's amusing to the reader.

They are intentionally bad, as demonstrated in practically all of his robot stories.

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