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Z
is 99% done
Not what I expected, but pleasantly surprised. These short stories became increasingly more difficult to “solve” and despite failsafes, humans (mostly experts) express fear… but! Looking further, there was always a logical answer to actions and the laws weren't actually broken. I really enjoyed the stories as they show humans and robots advancing together and, in contrast, just how different creator and created are.
— 5 hours, 1 min ago
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Z
is 99% done
+Donovan/Powell dynamic duo OAT
+short & engaging
+seamless writing
+Reason and Evidence, my two standouts
+refreshing despite not being current by any means
-honestly, not much detracting in this book but if I have to pick, the final story was more pedantic than entertaining
5*
— 4 hours, 59 min ago
+short & engaging
+seamless writing
+Reason and Evidence, my two standouts
+refreshing despite not being current by any means
-honestly, not much detracting in this book but if I have to pick, the final story was more pedantic than entertaining
5*
Z
is 99% done
They were seamlessly written between stories and how is this is nearly 70+ years old and still hold up! Wow, he coined the word robotics. Engaging even without “action” (space battles etc)
Def a must-read for sci-fi fans or robots in general. Asimov clearly put a lot of care to think of not just possible problems but also solutions and alternatives with a sprinkling of our ever-so-subtle innate ways we are human.
— 4 hours, 59 min ago
Def a must-read for sci-fi fans or robots in general. Asimov clearly put a lot of care to think of not just possible problems but also solutions and alternatives with a sprinkling of our ever-so-subtle innate ways we are human.
Z
is 90% done
At a speech a man comes up to him and demands to be hit. He hits him. Dr. Calvin visits and says there is one instance in which that would happen, if the other man was also a robot. She leaves saying she will vote for him, she thinks a robot mayor would be good mayor. 5 years later he becomes world coordinator when world is divided into quarters, each w a rep
— 8 hours, 47 min ago
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Politician is a robot! At least that’s what his political rival claims. Byerly has never eaten in public, doesn’t sleep etc. The robot psychologist Dr. Calvin is called in. He eats her apple. She says she cannot prove he is a robot but can prove he is not a robot. He would have to break the laws of robotics which would make him a bad human; lives w mentor in wheelchair (likely the real Byerly
— 8 hours, 47 min ago
Z
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They go thru interspace travel and feel dead, overstimulated and hear sermons of Hellfire. They die. Then come back to life. When they return, the brain was at an impasse at the thought of human harm but when told to disregard it, it allowed this temporary death. They return the brain back to rival company out of spite
— 8 hours, 48 min ago
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Rival company’s brain malfunctions, they are tasked with finding out why
They let the brain build a ship for interstellar travel even tho it didn’t find a dilemma in humans being harmed
Donovan and Powell are back, baby! To test the ship of course and guess what the brain just sent them off! No engines nor pilot chair and just beans and milk for them. Oh, poor Donovan lol
— 8 hours, 48 min ago
They let the brain build a ship for interstellar travel even tho it didn’t find a dilemma in humans being harmed
Donovan and Powell are back, baby! To test the ship of course and guess what the brain just sent them off! No engines nor pilot chair and just beans and milk for them. Oh, poor Donovan lol
Z
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NS10 has superiority complex so they warned all robots in advance of the experiment that gamma rays between them and saving a human would kill them; they used IR instead but all other robots couldn’t differentiate but NS10 was trained by humans and could so he went to save the human;
— Mar 15, 2026 11:36AM
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NS2, robots w modified law 1 (they cannot harm humans but are willing to let them be harmed) in this case cuz the job requires minimal gamma exposure; super secret government request and will be destroyed once job is over; one is hiding among 62 others they must find the mole (it was ordered to lose itself and so it did)
It is either lying or it’s convincing the others to not do things it is unable to do
— Mar 15, 2026 11:36AM
It is either lying or it’s convincing the others to not do things it is unable to do
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Herbie, mind-reading robot, lies in order to avoid hurting the robotics professionals (law 1 but emotionally) they don’t know how herbie’s abilities came about and only herbie knows but is unable to say because it’ll hurt their egos, but unable to not say because it’ll hurt their research and round and round it goes; Herbie breaks down; there never again was a mind-reading robot
— Mar 15, 2026 12:36AM
Z
is 35% done
They get caught in cave in, shoot one of the subunits and DV5 snaps back to reality
Normally, each subunit requires no supervision but in emergencies all subunits must be mobilized simultaneously so something goes wrong (arrival of humans decreases DV5’s initiative as humans would give orders)
Using process of elimination they can find out which part of circuit gets extra strained in 6-way order vs a 5-way order
— Mar 14, 2026 05:13PM
Normally, each subunit requires no supervision but in emergencies all subunits must be mobilized simultaneously so something goes wrong (arrival of humans decreases DV5’s initiative as humans would give orders)
Using process of elimination they can find out which part of circuit gets extra strained in 6-way order vs a 5-way order
