{"id":1874,"date":"2004-03-14T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/14\/1874.html"},"modified":"2004-03-14T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2004-03-14T23:33:07","slug":"three-laws-rephrased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/14\/three-laws-rephrased\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Laws rephrased"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irobotnow.com\/index.php\">fake robot-ad trailer<\/a> for the upcoming <cite>I, Robot<\/cite> movie came out a few months ago, but now there's a real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/i_robot\/\">preview<\/a> available.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/03\/13\/1818248&mode=thread\">Slashdot<\/a>, the title was grafted onto a script that was originally called <cite>Hardwired<\/cite> (apparently no relation to the Walter Jon Williams cyberpunk novel); the movie looks to have very little to do with Asimov.  It looks like it may be an entertaining action thriller, though, and I like Will Smith, so I'll probably see it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the real reason I'm posting this (other than to avoid work) is because the preview includes a great rephrasing of the Three Laws, repackaged for sound-bite delivery in a modern movie trailer:<\/p>\n<p>LAW #1: THEY CANNOT HURT US.<\/p>\n<p>LAW #2: THEY MUST DO WHAT WE SAY.<\/p>\n<p>LAW #3: THEY CAN PROTECT THEMSELVES.<\/p>\n<p>Note the clever reworking into \"they\" vs \"us\"; makes very clear exactly where the movie's conflict lies.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fake robot-ad trailer for the upcoming I, Robot movie came out a few months ago, but now there&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,33,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-robots","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}