{"id":310,"date":"2020-01-07T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/?p=310"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:11:47","slug":"writers-journal-78-4th-law-of-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/07\/writers-journal-78-4th-law-of-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers\u2019 Journal #78 \u2013 4th Law of Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the beginning of winter in 2108 that began the downfall of humanity. It all started from an amazingly surprising place. An out-of-place chicken breeder&#8217;s house at the outskirt of Istanbul. The breeder lived with her 2 young children , Jenny and her brother Jones. They were one year apart but Jones was taller than her sister even though he was younger.<\/p>\n<p>The chicken coop was maintained by ARE1000 by Advanced Robotics Engineering Corp , the company that dominates the field of housekeeping robots. They are harmless robots who had been hard coded with the 3 laws of Robots by Isaac Asimov. I am sure you know what are those laws but let me just write them down here ,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.<\/li>\n<li>A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.<\/li>\n<li>A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Anyway , to continue , it was a terrible winter and ARE1000 was self-aware enough from its temperature controls to close of all windows , doors so as to maintain the heat within the coop. But within a few hours , the chickens begun to die one after another and by the time Jenny and Jones came in for regular maintenance , only half the chicken left.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened? , &#8221; Jones asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh no , they died from overpopulation ,&#8221; Jenny replied. &#8220;They should not have been in such an enclosed space at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But master ,&#8221; ARE1000 interrupted the two siblings to defend its decision. &#8220;If the situation remain as before , chickens will still die from cold&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes but not as much as now. It is necessary that some of the chickens die for the rest the live. Otherwise , the whole race will perish due to fighting with one another over resources like now, &#8221; replied Jenny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So , is it the same for the human? ,&#8221; asked ARE1000.<\/p>\n<p>And that was how robots took over the world. Although they were designed not to hard the human , they realized they didn&#8217;t have to. They out manufactured the human and took over the resources and thereby starving the humanity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the beginning of winter in 2108 that began the downfall of humanity. It all started from an amazingly surprising place. An out-of-place chicken breeder&#8217;s house at the outskirt of Istanbul. The breeder lived with her 2 young children , Jenny and her brother Jones. They were one year apart but Jones was taller than her sister even though he was younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-science-fiction","category-writers-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}