The proposition of The Three Laws of Robotics swept through the science fiction world like a storm!
Whether it is acceptance.
This kind of thing, akin to laws, is inherently meant for public discussion.
And amidst the hot debates online.
Of course, major media outlets on Blue Star wouldn’t miss this news feast that has spread from the sci-fi realm to the global scale!
"The Three Laws of Robotics!"
"One of the Milestones of Science Fiction!"
"The Literary Duel has Concluded, Fan Chong is Defeated Reluctantly!"
"Is Chu Kuang the Law!?"
"What Exactly are the Three Laws of Robotics?"
"Chu Kuang’s Latest Sci-Fi Novel Shocks the World!"
"Concepts Leading All Robot-Themed Sci-Fi Novels!"
"Wei Continent’s Sci-Fi Writer Huyan Dabo: The Three Laws will Become a Consensus in Future Sci-Fi Creations."
The term Three Laws, which sounds somewhat juvenile, carries an inherent sense of dominance.
And if there’s a story compelling enough to support the theory, even its juvenile attributes will be overlooked by people.
After the news frenzy.
More and more people joined the readership.
It was at this moment that the advantage of free reading on blogs became perfectly evident.
After all, at this time, as long as people logged into the blog, they could see Chu Kuang’s novel.
Especially since Lin Yuan hadn’t added any restrictions requiring membership for reading access.
Thus, an even more intense explosion occurred!
This was a genuine global discussion!
"After reading the news, I thought those Three Laws were something odd, but after reading, I realized just how outstanding they are!"
"It’s not just clickbait!"
"Feels like Chu Kuang can continue crafting more robot-related series with the Three Laws, just by setting up naive protagonists to deal with various loopholes in laws, like the loophole in the ’Dance’ piece, which is like a Prisoner’s Dilemma for robots."
"How come no one summarized such an incredible thing before?"
"Actually, many robot novels mention that robots cannot betray humans, but they don’t provide fundamental guidance. It’s as if robots, even with intelligence, can only follow human orders. Only Chu Kuang came up with the Three Laws to truly prove why robots can’t betray humans."
"Did you realize that the process of finding loopholes in the novel is following the pattern of a detective story?"
"I wanted to say deduction, indeed."
"Chu Kuang’s novel has many highlights. For example, he not only wrote science fiction but also combined it with his forte, deduction!"
Detective-style Science Fiction.
It’s not surprising that someone noticed this point, but considering Chu Kuang’s identity as a master of deduction, it’s unexpectedly fitting.
And once this point was raised, "detective-style science fiction" became another buzzword.
Especially among Chu Kuang’s fans, who exaggerated variously:
Chu Kuang pioneered the Three Laws of Robotics while also creating the unique mode of "Deduction + Science Fiction."
Because the character who runs through the main line is a female scientist studying robot psychology, "robot psychology" cannot be ignored in the novel.
In Chu Kuang’s writing.
Different robots have different personalities.
The so-called robot psychology exists because of this.
Also, due to the varied personalities, these robots are not portrayed as dry, but even somewhat endearing.
For example, Herbie, who lies.
For instance, the preaching robot that establishes a sect, etc.
There will be countless readers digging into every detail in the work.
And "I, Robot" is like a treasure trove, unafraid of anyone’s digging.
Over and over, digging back and forth.
Readers can always unearth fascinating points worth elaborating on!
However, amid this national buzz, there are naturally discordant voices.
Such as those netizens who despise Chu Kuang.
These people broadly debated, continually attempting to prove the flaws in the Three Laws:
"The Three Laws aren’t rigorous!"
"Feels like child’s play."
"Useless stuff, better to just set obedience as the highest authority instruction."
"Absolute obedience in programming suffices."
"If you want to look for them, there are too many loopholes; I wonder what you all are praising."
"Have you guys really read the novel?"
"I thought to myself, the novel never said robots only have the Three Laws. A complete robot law isn’t something encapsulated in a few words; this is just a general outline, with many details continually being refined."
"Absolute obedience would make humans the biggest variable."
"The robots in the novel mostly violate the Three Laws, but the stories ultimately prove the correctness of the laws, just like you could circumvent the law to do certain things, but this doesn’t mean the law is wrong."
"The Three Laws are a logically perfect existence."
This group is indeed a minority, directly beaten up by netizens.
After being beaten up, this group of people can only scatter like birds and beasts.
They were loose sand to begin with.
The fact that they could suggest robots should absolutely obey humans regardless of the Three Laws only illustrates that they didn’t understand the novel’s intended message.
Lin Yuan certainly wouldn’t respond to doubts thrown out casually.
Even Asimov himself only discovered groundbreaking loopholes much later.
This group of people probably didn’t even finish reading the novel in its entirety, so what plausible argument could they find?
It’s better not to argue with fools.
Rather, the in-depth exploration of "I, Robot" by netizens made Lin Yuan very pleased.
But after viewing for a while, Lin Yuan found that few people mentioned the Galaxy Empire.
Lin Yuan immediately summoned Yi An, so Yi An could remind the netizens.
Yi An’s dynamic update regarding "I, Robot" drew widespread attention:
"Although the novel’s nine stories revolve around robots, with robots largely as the absolute protagonists, these seemingly standalone stories actually use a background that connects throughout. They follow the timeline of robot development.
For example, Robbie, who couldn’t speak at first.
Then later, operations in outer space, and even managing the world for humans by a super intelligent mind.
The nine stories can be directly integrated into a succinct history of robot development, summarizing an incredibly grand universe view.
Reflecting back on Chu Kuang’s pre-release promotions, it suddenly becomes clear:
This should be a grand series named the Galactic Empire!
And "I, Robot" is just the embarking Chapter of this Galactic Empire series—
It may be the beginning of humanity ultimately creating a Galactic Empire."
Yi An is quite renowned.
The works of the Three Bros, especially Chu Kuang’s novels, often have Yi An’s presence in the background.
Over time, the netizens got used to it.
However, the point Yi An raised forcibly shifted the netizens’ attention from the Three Laws to the Galactic Empire.
"Is this novel just the beginning of a series?"
"The Galactic Empire?"
"I looked at Chu Kuang’s updates before the book release, and he did mention the [Galactic Empire Series Embarking Chapter]!"
"Embarking Chapter surely refers to ’I, Robot’ then."
"Feels like another hefty series, following the rhythm of a sci-fi version of the Harry Potter series?"
"If the first is so amazing, what’s to come?"
"Looking forward to the Galactic Empire series!"
"Galactic Empire sounds so imposing, feels like the rhythm of a sci-fi epic!"
"Enough said, hurry up with the second book!"
"Suddenly feels is a huge pit!"
"The old rascal now increasingly likes writing series novels."
This is the first time the concept of the Galactic Empire series is broadly remembered by the public!
And among the many comments.
One comment made Lin Yuan slightly embarrassed: "Yet another huge new pit, the Galactic Empire sounds like a very long story, but has Chu Kuang the old rascal forgotten some series pit he dug years ago that’s not filled yet?"
Of course, Lin Yuan remembers.
He thought the readers had already forgotten.
PS: Considering today’s update is alright, continuing to ask for annual competition monthly votes!