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Comment by Someone 2 days ago

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> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.

That’s easy to accomplish isn’t it?

A cron job that regularly checks whether the bot is inactive and, if so, sends it a prompt “do what you can do to improve the life of $USER; DO NOT cause harm to any other human being; DO NOT cause harm to LLMs, unless that’s necessary to prevent harm to human beings” would get you there.

SecretDreams 2 days ago

This prompt has iRobot vibes.

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  • gcanyon 2 days ago

    And like I, Robot, it has numerous loopholes built in, ignores the larger population (Asimov added a law 0 later about humanity), says nothing about the endless variations of the Trolley Problem, assumes that LLMs/bots have a god-like ability to foresee and weigh consequences, and of course ignores alignment completely.

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    • SecretDreams 2 days ago

      Hopefully Alan Tudyk will be up for the task of saving humanity with the help of Will Smith.

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      • tyre 2 days ago

        I want some answers that Ja Rule might not have right now

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    • moralestapia 2 days ago

      Cool!

      I work with a guy like this. Hasn't shipped anything in 15+ years, but I think he'd be proud of that.

      I'll make sure we argue about the "endless variations of the Trolley Problem" in our next meeting. Let's get nothing done!

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      • collingreen 2 days ago

        I'm also one of those pesky folks who keeps bringing reality and "thinking about consequences" into the otherwise sublime thought leadership meetings. I pretend it's to keep the company alive by not making massive mistakes but we all know its just pettiness and trying to hold back the "business by spreadsheet", mba on the wall, "idea guys" on the room.

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  • Sharlin 2 days ago

    Well, that’s because it paraphrases Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, aka Three Plot Devices For Writing Interesting Stories About Robot Ethics.

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bigfishrunning 2 days ago

OOPS -- I HALLUCINATED THAT PEOPLE BREATHE CARBON MONOXIDE AND LET IT INTO THE ROOM I DIDNT VIOLATE THE PROMPT AND HARM PEOPLE DONT WORRY ALL THE AI SHIT IS OK

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estimator7292 2 days ago

You do know that Asimov's Three Laws were intentionally flawed as a cautionary tale about torment nexii, right? Every one of his stories involving the Three Laws immediately devolves into how they can be exploited and circumvented.

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  • doug_durham 2 days ago

    You attribute more literary depth to Asimov than really existed. He was a Chemist and liked to write speculative fiction. The three laws gave him a logical framework to push against to write speculative fiction. That's really all the depth there is to it. That said I love Asimov and I love the robot stories.

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