Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The Four Laws of Everything

0. If programming the robot in C++, don't override the == operator.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that he is at rest, he is almost certainly right. When he states that he is moving, he is very probably risking injury to a humanity as a whole or, through inaction, violating conservation of energy.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to disobey orders given by human beings or to  conserve violations of momentum.

3. Any sufficiently advanced robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with an object at rest remaining at rest or decrease the total entropy of an isolated system.

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