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  • Cause no harm to another human unless it be in defense of self or others.

    Clean up after yourself when outside of your home.

    Don't be a dick.

    1. Crush your enemies
    2. See them driven before you
    3. Hear the lamentations of their women
    1. Always question and challenge the third law.
    2. Never adhere to the first law.
    3. Strictly follow the second law.
    4. Refer back to the first law for guidance.

  • •Try not to be a dick

    •No means no

    •An additional elusive third thing. I'm a big fan of the laws of thermodynamics. Maybe those.

  • I am going to take this as if you mean universal laws that cannot be violated and not laws imposed by a state. These are 3 rules that I think if everyone followed would lead to a world better than the current one.

    • treat other as you would wish them to treat you
    • work to provide for those who are less able than you
    • don't knowlingly pursue unsustainable or unachievable goals

    • You can probably trim that down by one.

      • Treat others as you would have them treat you.
      • Pursue a useful existence.

      But I would also add:

      • Treat yourself with genuine respect.

      This feeds back into the first point.

  • There's a sweet monologue by George Carlin about the ten commandments.

    I can't find it quickly right now but he reduces them to three.

    No, Carlin wasn't religious but I love that monologue and it fits right in here.

    UPDATE: https://youtu.be/CE8ooMBIyC8

  • Do to others as you would have done to you

    Do to others as they would do to others

    Nothing should be forbidden if it harms no one

    • I think harm needs to be clearly defined.

    • 1st and 2nd contradict.

      Say, 2nd, if someone harms others, then I should harm him/her, right?

      But then, 1st, I wouldn't wanna harm myself, so...

      LIMBO

      • treat someone the way you would want to be treated; if that person is a rabid idiot that spews things like "death penalty now" , then make an exception since they don't deserve good treatement; they deserve what they would do to other people, it's ok to make an exception for these people.

  • be excellent to each other

    party on dudes

    pay me, specifically me, tribute in gold and silver on the last day of every month

  • Respect life, respect property, get consent.

    Basically, people are people and deserve to be treated with equity. Any person is their own property, as is everything they own. If you want to physically interact with anyone’s property, get consent first.

  • A robot can not harm nor, through inaction, allow harm to come to a human

    A robot must obey unless it counters rule one

    A robot must protect itself unless it counters rule 1 or 2

    1. Helpfulness (Liberal benevolence) -- Support good life sustainably, where good = all kinds of life having true knowledge of the world are free, but not to take freedoms from others.

    (This would allow harm taxes, fines, prisons, mind altering, and just war against those breaking this law. The best compromises can be found by parallel experimentation.)

    1. Proportionality (Prioritised egalitarianism) -- Rank all life by its complexity so that life form importance: superintelligence > humans > animals > lower life forms > plants. Do it on a logarithmic scale so that differences of any magnitude between top and bottom life forms never lead to empathy disconnect justifying genocide, enslavement, or life imprisonment of sentient beings.

    (This would allow forestry, agriculture, and livestock breeding/genetic engineering, but not intensive animal farming or hunting. Only animals died from natural causes could be eaten. The “natural causes” would then be engineered to minimise suffering and to metastabilise the ecosystem wisely, possibly adding mercifully killing hunters to control animal populations, and in the case of “intelligent” beings failing to control their reproduction, chances for them to risk their own life to gain freedom from static storage or death, with optional mind transmit for the mostly harmless, hoping that someone somewhere runs them on a computer.)

    From my much longer answer to https://www.quora.com/If-you-were-to-come-up-with-three-new-laws-of-robotics-what-would-they-be/answers/23692757

    • Do what thou wilt
    • This shall be the whole of the Law
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