Chapter 27 The Three Laws of Robots
[Two thousand collections and additional updates are delivered, when will the three thousand collections and additional updates come?]
"The first rule of robots: Robots must not harm humans, or sit idly by and watch humans be hurt and ignore them."
"The Second Law of Robots: Unless the First Law is violated, the Robots must obey human commands."
"The third rule of robots: without violating the first and second rules, robots must protect themselves."
After the development of time, there is actually a zero rule, but Lin Han doesn't want to throw it out all of it now, keep it and release it slowly in the future, so as not to have too much impact all at once.
In science fiction novels at this time, the writers' description of robots is still the worry and fear of "robots threatening humans" or "robots oppose human slavery". They did not expect that they could control robots from the source.
Treat robots as industrial products made by engineers. They have an internal security mechanism and will not pose a threat to their owners. These three laws are the root of all robots' behaviors.
On Earth, many Hollywood science fiction movies also continued this setting, not breaking out without authorization, but occasionally subverting the rules of the variants.
In fact, this is the interesting thing about robot science fiction novels. Although these three rules are stipulated, the novel highlights the unexpected dilemma that robots suffer when trying to abide by these rules. These loopholes have caused prisoner dilemma for robots, so it is extremely exciting.
Lin Han is not writing fast. His writing style is not that gorgeous type, but full of rustic flavor. There is no unnecessary description of the environment, there will be no large number of deliberate lyricism, and there will be no human-computer love story embellishment.
All texts are for the service of the center. The protagonists here are not humans, but robots.
In addition to the introduction, this short story collection also has nine short stories. What Lin Han needs to do now is to write the first one, "Robi".
However, when it comes to modification, it is obviously much more difficult than copying it directly, so Lin Han would stop and scratch his hair from time to time and think carefully about it. Is this modification appropriate?
The introduction is a one-person tone in description. The protagonist is a reporter who interviewed a lady named Susan Calvin. The original writing time was in 1942. At that time, the United States was very different from the present, so the background of the times must be refined and must be in line with the present.
Therefore, I simply set Ms. Susan's birthday in 2102. Ms. Susan, 75, is the same age as "American Robots and Robots". From her educational background to her scientific name, and even the structure of the first robot needs to be carefully modified.
He overestimated his ability and thought he could take out the first chapter today, but he only wrote the first draft of the introduction.
This thing needs to be modified and modified carefully. The introduction of thousands of words only outlines the background, and at the same time leads to the content of the first chapter, and starts to tell the story of the little girl and the nanny-type robot Robbie, which is the story in the story.
Susan Cavenell is a robot psychologist. As a female workaholic, she has devoted herself to the psychology of robots for decades. Compared with other scientists, she has a more "human" flavor, respects robots more, and lays the emotional tone of the whole novel.
Robbie is the name of a robot. As the first robot in the novel, he can't speak and is just treated as a nanny. Another lively and cute little girl is Glory. The story of the first chapter takes place between Robbie and Glory.
The story of "Robi" tells the story of the little human girl since she was a robot nanny and human adults' alertness and concerns about robots, and there is no big conflict or contradiction.
From the perspective of storyline alone, there are definitely no ups and downs or extremely grand scenes, but its symbolism is very powerful and is enough to serve as an important dividing point in the history of science fiction novels.
What Lin Han is more troublesome now is the dialogue between the characters. The characters' thoughts and personalities are expressed through dialogue. What kind of person's identity says what they are like, so that they can be the most appropriate.
As night gradually fell, Lin Han stood up from the chair. He twisted his neck and relaxed his shoulders, and walked to the window to look into the distance, so that his eyes could rest.
Writing is hard to hurry. Other writers may have been able to write a novel for a year. His memory in his previous life has been ahead of him. When others stand at the starting line and start starting, he is already standing in front of the finish line and ready to take the final step at any time.
The lights of thousands of homes are lit up, and the lights of the buildings in the community make people feel the warmth of home. Occasionally, a few barking dogs and laughter from young people break the silence of the night.
Small cars drove back to the garage from the main road, and the office workers who had worked hard for a day finally had a rest time.
Lin Han took his gaze back. He touched his slightly deflated belly, turned around and went to the kitchen to cook rice, and then started steaming in an electric rice cooker.
As for the dishes, I can make a little simpler. The last time I went to the supermarket to buy some vegetables and chicken breasts, I just ate them with just a little skill. Those who have to pay the rent are not qualified to be picky about their lives.
It was a bit deserted when he was alone in the room. He simply turned on the TV with the remote control. It would be better to play any program casually than to be quiet.
There was still no light on the room opposite. Lin Han began to worry about Chen Jiaxuan coming, so hesitated with his cell phone to call.
"She is my agent. I'm writing a new book now. I'm supposed to call it and ask. Well, that's it, for business."
After Lin Han had done his psychological construction, his phone changed to dial, and there were ringtones of unknown songs echoing inside his phone, which sounded very comfortable.
Before he could wait for a long time, the phone was answered, and a familiar voice came out, "Hey, Lin Han? You actually called me, what's going on?"
"Well, I just received a notice saying that I would pay the heating fee. I was afraid that you wouldn't know, so I called and asked, are you very busy now?"
Chen Jiaxuan smiled in the car, and her originally tired face suddenly shone brightly. She put her Bluetooth headset on her, and she began to reverse carefully.
"I'm not busy, I'm parking in the garage below. It turns out that it's just a matter of heating fees. Why? I'll come up and chat immediately. I have good news to tell you."
Lin Han was stunned for a moment, and he smiled and said, "Such coincidence, I have good news. Now I'll say it later?"
Chapter completed!