Talk:Isaac Asimov
One of his lesser known works [1] Don't forget his limericks either...
- "There's a lassie who's named Janet Kagan
- Whose morals are those of a pagan
- She charges no fee
- But gives it for free
- To anyone but Ronald Reagan."
Or a collection of his poems [2]
And then, some quotes...
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
- (On writing) Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Of note, I recall hearing one of the limericks mentioned in the book, read by Arthur C. Clarke on NPR when Asimov died.
--Shagie 02:44, 29 August 2007 (CDT)
- Well, go ahead and add 'em, if you can figure out how! Please, make our file, as literate, at least as possible? humanbe in 02:55, 29 August 2007 (CDT)
- At this hour of the evening with a half empty glass of vodka (it is half empty because it used to be all full previously, the glass half empty or half full has to do with the derivative of the volume of the liquid over time) and I am not certain that my writing skills are significantly greater than Ken's at this time. Or that I'm more coherent. Whatever the case, at least I don't make 1000 little edits on a page, changing one word at a time. Still, not a good idea at this time. --Shagie 03:06, 29 August 2007 (CDT)
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[edit] Zeroth law?
Poppycock! The three laws don't imply a darned thing about some nebulous concept termed "humanity". What the hell does that term mean? Phiwum (talk) 16:30, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
- wp:Three Laws of Robotics#Zeroth Law added. Asimov explored exactly the same issues you raise. :)--ZooGuard (talk) 16:45, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Races
The article says "He considered himself a rationalist and humanist" but note how Asimov was a racial realist who published two scientific books on the existence of human races. I guess as rational wiki is owned by race denier anti-scientific loons that you choose to leave this out? It is rational to claim races are real, it is only modern day pc that has ruined everything sadly! 212.219.63.253 (talk) 11:04, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- This article is practically a stub. If it's true he supported that crap, it might be appropriate to mention it. The fact that "race realism" is crap, on the other hand, has nothing to do with this article and should probably be redirected here or here. 99.50.98.145 (talk) 11:14, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- You mean like Races and People with William C. Boyd that actually attacks the notion of "race" as a hard-and-fast category as used by
racists"racial realists"?
gnostic
11:15, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- You mean like Races and People with William C. Boyd that actually attacks the notion of "race" as a hard-and-fast category as used by
- Lmao, Armondikov "Races and People" is a book which advocates the BIOLOGICAL REALITY of race. William C. Boyd was a racial realist who appears all over anthropology and racialist forums and literature. Both Asimov and Boyd identified 13 biological races, clustered into 6 larger groups. The book completed a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types made by Boyd showed that blood groups are inherited, Genetic analysis of blood groups led Asimov and Boyd to hypothesize that the population differences between human races are found in alleles. They divided the world population into 13 geographically distinct biological races with different blood group gene profiles. How does any of this fit in with your lunatic race denialism Armondikov? You have not done your research and not even read the book. 212.219.63.253 (talk) 14:54, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Delete/keep
There's really nothing about pseudoscience in this article.--Кřěĵ (ṫåɬк) 16:43, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Possibly - the logicality of the Three Laws. ('Open the pod bay doors, HAL.' 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.')— Unsigned, by: 171.33.222.26 / talk / contribs 25 November 2013 (UTC)
[edit] Polish/polish
In one of Asimov's short stories use is made of the fact that 'Polish' can be pronounced differently to polish - but there are more examples than he seems to have been aware of - Nice/nice, Scone/scone etc. 171.33.222.26 (talk) 16:13, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
- A homophone[wp] is not a fashion accessory for gay men and such have been known long before Asimov. You, on the other side, come close to the Bulgarian meaning of "pun".--ZooGuard (talk) 18:18, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
Ich weise Bulgarian nicht - and I am 'mostly harmless' (even if I don't sign all the components of my comments): I was noting the flaw in the story. 171.33.222.26 (talk) 18:42, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
[edit] The three laws of robotics
... create a paradox-through-mutual contradictions (probably related to the grandfather paradox) - so would be worked around (just as most of us humans can reconcile being brought up to 'cause no damage to others' with 'dealing with a person who is threatening or causing danger at this point'). 82.44.143.26 (talk) 17:43, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- Have you actually read any of Asimov's robot stories? Almost all of them are pretty much built about exploring the implications of the Three Laws and resolving problems caused by their interaction in various situations. Including murder.--ZooGuard (talk) 18:56, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- To be fair, suicide is only mentioned rarely and never as a tool for control. Ikanreed (talk) 19:41, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
- I read some of them long ago: is there any mention of 'computer/robotic misprogramming and glitches' whether accidental or deliberate (as occur in Real Life)? There is also the 'I am lying' type of paradoxical confusion, [3], [4] and the Star Trek episode with 'the confused hybrid Terran construct-alien'.
- To be fair, suicide is only mentioned rarely and never as a tool for control. Ikanreed (talk) 19:41, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
And 'the virtual absence of sentient aliens' (if sentience evolved on Earth, why not also on the other habitable planets described). 82.44.143.26 (talk) 15:43, 6 February 2015 (UTC)