I, Robot

By high school, I had discovered the great science fiction writers.

I remember especially Heinlein's Have Space Suit-Will Travel and Asimov's I, Robot with its Three Laws of Robotics.

I was enchanted by the descriptions of space travel and wanted to have a telescope to look at the stars.

Since I had no money to buy or make one, I checked books on telescope making out of the library and read about making them instead.

By high school, I had discovered the great science fiction writers.

I remember especially Heinlein's Have Space Suit Will Travel and Asimov's I, Robot with its three laws of robotics.

I was enchanted by the descriptions of space travel and wanted to have a telescope to look at the stars.

Since I had no money to buy or make one, I checked books on telescope making out of the library and read about making them instead.

By high school, I had discovered the great science fiction writers.

I remember especially Heinlein's Have Space Suit Will Travel and Asimov's I, Robot with its three laws of robotics.

I was enchanted by the descriptions of space travel and wanted to have a telescope to look at the stars.

Since I had no money to buy or make one, I checked books on telescope making out of the library and read about making them instead.

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... around "I, Robot," for example.

It was written, like, in the 1950s, I believe.

Um, but, uh, apparently at Anthropic, they have, like, a document that's called the Soul Doc.

And they, they, the, I mean, I, I think that if you read back and you read the stuff that these guys are writing, um, I wouldn't recommend it for everyone to do because it, you know, it, it's like pretty...

But if you're interested in this stuff like I am and you're going back and you're reading this stuff, um, and the people who have built this entire narrative around what is gonna happen with AI and then finally they're seeing their dream come to life, um, questions of consciousness are throughout this whole type of conversation.

Like I said, it started with Isaac Asimov, right? "I, Robot." And, um, I think that they really think that this thing has a soul, and they want to convince people that that's true.

It's like a religious rant, right? Like, uh, why is, why do the Hare Krishnas hand out books and dance and try and get other people to dance? Well, like it's because they believe that that's gonna save these people, right? And so I, I think it's an earnest type of thing.

By high school, I had discovered the great science fiction writers.

I remember especially Heinlein's Have Space Suit-Will Travel and Asimov's I, Robot with its Three Laws of Robotics.

I was enchanted by the descriptions of space travel and wanted to have a telescope to look at the stars.

Since I had no money to buy or make one, I checked books on telescope making out of the library and read about making them instead.

By high school, I had discovered the great science fiction writers.

I remember especially Heinlein's Have Space Suit-Will Travel and Asimov's I, Robot with its Three Laws of Robotics.

I was enchanted by the descriptions of space travel and wanted to have a telescope to look at the stars.

Since I had no money to buy or make one, I checked books on telescope making out of the library and read about making them instead.

I think, uh, Asimov was a big kinda influence on that too.

He wrote, I think he wrote I, Robot in, in, like, 1950.

Oh, really? There you go.

I, I don't know.