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Wow! Those are very impressive movies, maybe even scary. Is the little fella named Robbie?
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Is the little fella named Robbie?
More parbly, Daneel.
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as OED says: Alchemy - the chemistry of the Middle Ages and 16th c.; now applied distinctively to the pursuit of the transmutation of baser metals into gold
e.g. modern chemistry has its beginning in alchemy, alchemists invented basic chemical procedures such as distillation, they discovered basic chemical reactions, they managed to obtain many pure chemical elements etc. unfortunately, only a "show" part of alchemy - unsuccessful attempts to transmute metals into gold - are widely known. so hypothetical universal solvent should not only dissolve something used for a transmutation but everything else as well.
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Surely he is called ASIMO. I was interested to learn that they had deliberately made him just big enough to function in a human environment, but small enough, at 120cm, to be non-threatening.
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Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
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 the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3.A robot must protect its own existence, except where such protection would conflict with the First or Second Law.
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And just to complete the list, wwh, here's the Zeroth Law of Robotics, expounded by the very Daneel of whom Faldage made mention: "No robot may harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm".
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Somebody plagianrized somebody.
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>Somebody plagiarised somebody.
Not at all. R. Daneel Olivaw is a central character in Asimov's "Robot and Empire" Series, and later works in his "Foundation" series. Asimov himself devised the Zeroth law, and Daneel was his mouthpiece for propagating it.
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>Somebody plagiarised somebody. -- whh Not at all. R. Daneel Olivaw is a central character in Asimov's "Robot and Empire" Series, and later works in his "Foundation" series. Asimov himself devised the Zeroth law, and Daneel was his mouthpiece for propagating it. -- sjm (Somehow I have the feeling Bill knew that)
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Dear wofahulicodoc: my ignorance is very ;extensive. I did not read much of Asimov. Incidentally, he spent his last few years at BUSch.of Med. Acronym is anathema.
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