Sometimes when I’m feeling batty,I’ll put the Three Laws of Robotics in my source code. Usually, this is an veiled insult aimed at myself; the comment is my script is gotten so morbidly complex that it threatens to wake up and kill me.

On a completely unrelated note, I’ve been picking at the edges of prolog for the last couple of years. I’ve worked my way through a free Prolog textbook, and now I’m very slowly working my way through Language, Proof and Logic in order to learn me some predicate calculus.

Now I thought of a project that combines these two. I’m gonna build daydream about defining an ontology suitable for making robots comply with those three laws of robotics. Once I finished, it would work like this:


> Eat baby
Violates law #1!
> Mop floor
OK
> Burn down abandoned house
OK


You get the idea.