I was watching "Raised By Wolves" last night and the phrase "Direct
Order" was used to instruct an android to do something it didn't want
to do.
The only other place I have seen that term used in that context is in
Mark Stanley's "Freefall" web comic, where it is used not only with
androids but with all AIs including organic ones.
I don't recall seeing it elsewhere. Does anybody have an earlier
usage?
On 2/21/2022 4:38 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
I was watching "Raised By Wolves" last night and the phrase "DirectIts a military term (which I expect you know) so anything that involves >military probably will use the phrase at some point.
Order" was used to instruct an android to do something it didn't want
to do.
The only other place I have seen that term used in that context is in
Mark Stanley's "Freefall" web comic, where it is used not only with
androids but with all AIs including organic ones.
I don't recall seeing it elsewhere. Does anybody have an earlier
usage?
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:18:42 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 2/21/2022 4:38 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
I was watching "Raised By Wolves" last night and the phrase "DirectIts a military term (which I expect you know) so anything that involves
Order" was used to instruct an android to do something it didn't want
to do.
The only other place I have seen that term used in that context is in
Mark Stanley's "Freefall" web comic, where it is used not only with
androids but with all AIs including organic ones.
I don't recall seeing it elsewhere. Does anybody have an earlier
usage?
military probably will use the phrase at some point.
It's also a term of art in medicine. But neither the medical
establishment nor the military are staffed with androids or AIs at
this time. I'm curious about its history in that specific context.
On 2/21/2022 9:51 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:18:42 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 2/21/2022 4:38 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
I was watching "Raised By Wolves" last night and the phrase "DirectIts a military term (which I expect you know) so anything that involves
Order" was used to instruct an android to do something it didn't want
to do.
The only other place I have seen that term used in that context is in
Mark Stanley's "Freefall" web comic, where it is used not only with
androids but with all AIs including organic ones.
I don't recall seeing it elsewhere. Does anybody have an earlier
usage?
military probably will use the phrase at some point.
It's also a term of art in medicine. But neither the medical
establishment nor the military are staffed with androids or AIs at
this time. I'm curious about its history in that specific context.
Then change "involves military" to "involves military androids or AIs".
I was watching "Raised By Wolves" last night and the phrase "Direct
Order" was used to instruct an android to do something it didn't want
to do.
The only other place I have seen that term used in that context is in
Mark Stanley's "Freefall" web comic, where it is used not only with
androids but with all AIs including organic ones.
I don't recall seeing it elsewhere. Does anybody have an earlier
usage?
In the webcomic _Freefall_, humans command robots and other AIs
by surrounding them with the phrases "Direct order:" and "End
order."
In <r7oxIz.21wn@kithrup.com> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) writes:
In the webcomic _Freefall_, humans command robots and other AIs
by surrounding them with the phrases "Direct order:" and "End
order."
...the very best example of which has to be this one:
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01780.htm
Note that the everyone on the right side of the fifth panel is compelled
to follow direct orders; in addition to Florence and Helix (the obvious
robot standing beside her), the three police officers are also robots.
This is the culmination of a sequence which begins 33 strips earlier, at
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01747.htm
...but I think it stands well enough on its own. :-)
The thing is, I was wondering if it had been used anywhere in the
context of humans giving orders to robots or AIs _before_ "Freefall".
In <kcl91hh1tqjnjhot42djlu5k3h16g1vfgb@4ax.com>
J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
The thing is, I was wondering if it had been used anywhere in the
context of humans giving orders to robots or AIs _before_ "Freefall".
In <kcl91hh1tqjnjhot42djlu5k3h16g1vfgb@4ax.com>
J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
The thing is, I was wondering if it had been used anywhere in the
context of humans giving orders to robots or AIs _before_ "Freefall".
I just came across the term "direct order" in Vonnegut's _The
Sirens of Titan_ (1959), but it's a Martian giving an order
to a human conscripted into the Martian army.
So it's an older use of the term, and in SF.
Oh, and the human has just come out of a mind-wipe treatment,
so he's almost a robot. And the order is to strangle his best
friend. (Shades of _The Manchurian Candidate_!)
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