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.Seventy-five other unidentifieds from the warehouse district were being keptPage 238 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlin cells nearby.Lodovik knew very little about them, but surmised they were amix of the surviving groups of Calvinian robots and the mentalic youngstersgathered by Kallusin and Plussix.Lodovik assumed they would all be dead within a few days."Lodovik Trema."The voice came from the info screen, which also served as a comm link withhis jailers.He looked up and saw the shadowy features of a bored-lookingfemale guard on the small display."Yes.""You have a visitor.Make yourself presentable."The screen went blank.Lodovik remained sitting upright on his small cot.Hewas certainly presentable enough.The hatch gave a harsh warning beep and slid open.Lodovik stood to greet hisvisitor, whoever it might be.A camera eye in the ceiling hummed slightly asit followed his motion.In his private office, Linge Chen stood in a slowly changingdiscipline-exercise posture, watching the informer's display from the cornerof one eye.He smoothly and gracefully shifted to another position, so that hecould face the screen directly.This was a moment of high interest.Daneel entered Lodovik Trema's cell.Lodovik showed no surprise ordiscomfiture, somewhat to Chen's disappointment.For the most fleeting of moments, the two former allies exchangedmachine-language greetings (also being captured and interpreted by Chen'slistening devices) and Daneel provided a cursory situation update.Thirty-onerobots and forty-four humans from the warehouse of Plussix's Calvinians,including Klia Asgar and Brann, were in custody.Linge Chen had released HariSel-don; Farad Sinter was dead.Obviously, Daneel had reached an understanding with the Chief Commissioner."Congratulations on your victory, " Lodovik said."There has been no victory, " Daneel said."Congratulations then on having foiled the Calvinians.""Their goals may yet be achieved, " Daneel said.Lodovik resumed his seat on the cot."Your update does not explain how thiscould be so.""There was a time when I thought it would be necessary to destroy you, "Daneel said."Why not do so now? If I survive, I am a danger to your plan.And I haveproved that I can be destructive to humans.""I am constrained by the same blocks that would have prevented me before, "Daneel said."What could possibly block you?"Page 239 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"The Three Laws of Susan Calvin, " Daneel said."Given your abilities to ignore the Three Laws in favor of the Zeroth Law,the fate of a mere robot should not trouble you, " Lodovik said, his tonepolite, conversational.There was a visible difference between Daneel andLodovik, how-ever their expressions.Daneel maintained a pleasantly blank look.Lodovik'sbrow was furrowed."Yet I am blocked, " Daneel said."Your arguments have provoked much thought,as has the existence of humans like Vara Liso.and Klia Asgar.Your nature,however, is what would ultimately block any effort on my part to destroy you,or would at least result in a painful and possibly damaging conflict.""I am eager to understand how this could be so.""In your case, I cannot invoke the Zeroth Law to overcome the three originallaws.There is no compelling evidence that your destruction will benefithumanity, nor reduce the suffering of humanity.It might, in fact, do thereverse.""You find my opinions compelling?""I find them part of a larger and completely compelling scenario, which hasbeen taking shape in my mind for some weeks.But equally important, yourfreedom from the constraints of the Three Laws forces me to view you under anew definition, in those regions of my mentality where decisions on thelegality of my actions are made."You have free will, a convincing human form, and the ability to breakthrough prior education and programming to reach a new and higherunderstanding.Though you have worked to destroy all my efforts, I cannotdeactivate you, because you have, in my judgment centers, which I may notdispute, achieved the status of a human being.In your own way, you may be asvaluable as Hari Seldon [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Seventy-five other unidentifieds from the warehouse district were being keptPage 238 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlin cells nearby.Lodovik knew very little about them, but surmised they were amix of the surviving groups of Calvinian robots and the mentalic youngstersgathered by Kallusin and Plussix.Lodovik assumed they would all be dead within a few days."Lodovik Trema."The voice came from the info screen, which also served as a comm link withhis jailers.He looked up and saw the shadowy features of a bored-lookingfemale guard on the small display."Yes.""You have a visitor.Make yourself presentable."The screen went blank.Lodovik remained sitting upright on his small cot.Hewas certainly presentable enough.The hatch gave a harsh warning beep and slid open.Lodovik stood to greet hisvisitor, whoever it might be.A camera eye in the ceiling hummed slightly asit followed his motion.In his private office, Linge Chen stood in a slowly changingdiscipline-exercise posture, watching the informer's display from the cornerof one eye.He smoothly and gracefully shifted to another position, so that hecould face the screen directly.This was a moment of high interest.Daneel entered Lodovik Trema's cell.Lodovik showed no surprise ordiscomfiture, somewhat to Chen's disappointment.For the most fleeting of moments, the two former allies exchangedmachine-language greetings (also being captured and interpreted by Chen'slistening devices) and Daneel provided a cursory situation update.Thirty-onerobots and forty-four humans from the warehouse of Plussix's Calvinians,including Klia Asgar and Brann, were in custody.Linge Chen had released HariSel-don; Farad Sinter was dead.Obviously, Daneel had reached an understanding with the Chief Commissioner."Congratulations on your victory, " Lodovik said."There has been no victory, " Daneel said."Congratulations then on having foiled the Calvinians.""Their goals may yet be achieved, " Daneel said.Lodovik resumed his seat on the cot."Your update does not explain how thiscould be so.""There was a time when I thought it would be necessary to destroy you, "Daneel said."Why not do so now? If I survive, I am a danger to your plan.And I haveproved that I can be destructive to humans.""I am constrained by the same blocks that would have prevented me before, "Daneel said."What could possibly block you?"Page 239 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"The Three Laws of Susan Calvin, " Daneel said."Given your abilities to ignore the Three Laws in favor of the Zeroth Law,the fate of a mere robot should not trouble you, " Lodovik said, his tonepolite, conversational.There was a visible difference between Daneel andLodovik, how-ever their expressions.Daneel maintained a pleasantly blank look.Lodovik'sbrow was furrowed."Yet I am blocked, " Daneel said."Your arguments have provoked much thought,as has the existence of humans like Vara Liso.and Klia Asgar.Your nature,however, is what would ultimately block any effort on my part to destroy you,or would at least result in a painful and possibly damaging conflict.""I am eager to understand how this could be so.""In your case, I cannot invoke the Zeroth Law to overcome the three originallaws.There is no compelling evidence that your destruction will benefithumanity, nor reduce the suffering of humanity.It might, in fact, do thereverse.""You find my opinions compelling?""I find them part of a larger and completely compelling scenario, which hasbeen taking shape in my mind for some weeks.But equally important, yourfreedom from the constraints of the Three Laws forces me to view you under anew definition, in those regions of my mentality where decisions on thelegality of my actions are made."You have free will, a convincing human form, and the ability to breakthrough prior education and programming to reach a new and higherunderstanding.Though you have worked to destroy all my efforts, I cannotdeactivate you, because you have, in my judgment centers, which I may notdispute, achieved the status of a human being.In your own way, you may be asvaluable as Hari Seldon [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]