Comments on: Turing Roach

By: David Molnar

David Molnar — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:01:56 +0000

Sounds like half a dozen Philip K. Dick stories. In particular “Second Variety” and “The Mold of Yancy.”

By: jason

jason — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:35:28 +0000

Asmov, I. (1976). “That Thou Art Mindful of Him.” The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. New York: Doubleday. p.p. 61-87.

By: jason

jason — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:33:55 +0000

Or I’d point out Asmov’s wise story “That thou art mindful of him” from the collection The Bicentennial Man. I used to use it back in the early 90s when teaching social science and comptuers. The greatest robots get around the 3 laws of robotics by making robotic insect eating birdlike things that fit into the ecosystem… but are designed to evolve over centuries to take over the earth. I ever was an Asmov fan, but this one…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:09:11 +0000

Great, now we just need a Turing blog bot to herd the bloggers around…