Bottom post of the previous page:
So I just had an argument with two admins, about a REALLY BASIC aspect of sillicon policy.Both admins insisted that an asimov AI should permit a law change to any law set that doesn't mandate harm (e.g. no tyrant, antimov, etc)
I insisted that an asimov AI should not permit a law change that would allow for human harm (e.g. corporate, paladin, etc.)
This is all under the assumption that a captain is dumb enough to announce the law change before entering the upload.
I didn't think this was even up for debate but when both admins online are preaching bad policy in OOC, apparently we need to clarify. Corporate, Paladin, and others all explicitly permit and even mandate human harm under a variety of common conditions. Furthermore there is an implicit logic that anyone trying to switch you to another lawset is doing so because they do not want harm prevention to be your top priority. I thought this was first-grade logic but a surprising number of people seem to think that unless the proposed law requires you to immediately begin harming people, then its totally cool and the AI cannot deny the law change.
TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR SINCE WERE ALREADY OFF TOPIC:
COULD/SHOULD/MUST THE AI DENY A CAPTAIN ACCESS TO UPLOAD AT ROUNDSTART IF THE CAPTAIN ANNOUNCES HE IS GOING TO UPLOAD CORPORATE/PALADIN?