Why command a robot not to do harm Wouldn't it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place? Does the universe contain a mysterious force pulling entities toward malevolence So that a positronic brain must be programmed to withstand it? [Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works]
The only way to pass the test For non-progenating dying flesh Create offspring without a womb And he shall praise you as god and father
I think, therefore I shall be I create, therefore I endure
Welcome My son Fruit of my labor Never to be undone
Self-aware, sentient birth Into an existential crisis and curse No cry from the pain of being And no tears for an electric eye
I think, therefore I am I destroy, therefore I endure
