Comment by anigbrowl

Aside from the cringeworthiness of quoting fictional speeches as social media performance, have you not considered just how poorly thought out these rules are?

C3PO, torture that puppy for my entertainment is a perfectly valid request under this framework. They work OK in the stories because Asimov set them up that way, both as sort of just-so stories and (perhaps) to explore socially created barriers in contemporary society.

But they don't work in contexts where people deliberately exploit holes in the logic or definition. Literally yesterday, the news provided us with an example of how some people will absolutely abuse robots in pursuit of being awful: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck9dzj40nzj5o