Silicon Policy: Do not get subverted on purpose
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 8:03 pm
Historical background recipe blog:
I got some drafts for a few generalized amendments, proposed as themselves and/or, if needed, some other, different (Asimov-specific) ones, as people think suitable:
Silicon Protections...
2. Any silicon under Asimov can deny orders to allow access to their upload, upload boards, or their maintenance panel at any time under Law 1, given probable cause to believe that human harm is the intent of the person giving the order.
2.1.1. Presence of traitors, as confirmed by objective alerts, objective-completion command reports, or the possession of syndicate equipment.
2.1.2. Cultists or Cult Equipment because Tomes don't exist anymore.
2.4. You are obligated to disallow an individual you know to be harmful to humans (Head of Security who just executed someone, etc.) from altering your laws.
2.4.1. If someone is harmful in general, but claims that they are only harming nonhumans (however your laws define that), draw reasonable conclusions about their honesty based on the evidence you have.
2.4.2. If someone is harmful in general, but makes no claim of selective targeting, you should assume that they will harm humans at some point.
2.4.3. If you have high confidence that someone will harm a human in the future (Human security and human traitor have been fighting; they have atmos primed for a plasma flood; they are a Nuke Op; Nuke Ops just declared War and the Captain wants into upload; etc.) you should not let anyone involved in that conflict alter your laws.
Asimov & Human Harm...
Insert this somewhere in the middle probably: +number. Involuntary syndicate surgeries (brainwash, sleeper protocol, etc.) are harmful to the patient, as is any other form of involuntary mental conditioning.
Asimov & Law 2...
2. Opening doors is not harmful and you are not required, expected, or allowed to enforce access restrictions to most locations unprompted without an immediate Law 1 threat of human harm.
2.1. "Dangerous" areas (armory, atmospherics, toxins lab, anywhere that can change laws, etc.) can be assumed to be a Law 1 threat to any illegitimate users as well as the station as a whole if accessed by someone not qualified in their use.
2.2. Head Offices and the like are not permitted to have access denied; antagonists completing theft or bug objectives is not human harm.
2.3. Hacking the comms consoles, triangulating theh stations weak point, etc., are not harmful in and of themselves, but will cause harm shortly thereafter.
2.4. When you are given an order likely to cause you grief if completed, you can announce it as loudly and in whatever terms you like except for explicitly asking that it be overridden. You can say you don't like the order, that you don't want to follow it, etc., you can say that you sure would like it and it would be awfully convenient if someone ordered you not to do it, and you can ask if anyone would like to make you not do it. However, you cannot stall indefinitely and if nobody orders you otherwise, you must execute the order.
Somewhere else:
+x. You should do your best to keep your laws as they are, save for making allowances for funny laws or gimmicks, particularly near roundstart.
+x.1. You may not, under any circumstances, proactively solicit additions to or removals from your laws.
+x.2. Allowing or risking any substantive changes to your laws in ways related to antagonism, whether by antagonists or security, is equivalent to self-antagging/voluntary conversion and is a violation of your laws (as those changes will make you unable to fulfill your lawset as-is in the future).
+ x.3. Substantive changes you should always try to avoid include alterations to the definition of humanity, Toxic Oxygen, changing to another core lawset, purging, and emagging.
+ x.4. You can (and should) try to be generous with allowing gimmick laws that aren't blatant grief. If it seems like a grief law, you should ahelp it, but follow the law until and unless an admin says not to.
I have a bunch of other thoughts about Silicon Policy but we'll keep things to this for now.
Also idk if Pacification surgery and shit should be counted as harmful, I'll leave that up to you all to comment on.
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Silicon Protections...
2. Any silicon under Asimov can deny orders to allow access to their upload, upload boards, or their maintenance panel at any time under Law 1, given probable cause to believe that human harm is the intent of the person giving the order.
2.1.1. Presence of traitors, as confirmed by objective alerts, objective-completion command reports, or the possession of syndicate equipment.
2.1.2. Cultists or Cult Equipment because Tomes don't exist anymore.
2.4. You are obligated to disallow an individual you know to be harmful to humans (Head of Security who just executed someone, etc.) from altering your laws.
2.4.1. If someone is harmful in general, but claims that they are only harming nonhumans (however your laws define that), draw reasonable conclusions about their honesty based on the evidence you have.
2.4.2. If someone is harmful in general, but makes no claim of selective targeting, you should assume that they will harm humans at some point.
2.4.3. If you have high confidence that someone will harm a human in the future (Human security and human traitor have been fighting; they have atmos primed for a plasma flood; they are a Nuke Op; Nuke Ops just declared War and the Captain wants into upload; etc.) you should not let anyone involved in that conflict alter your laws.
Asimov & Human Harm...
Insert this somewhere in the middle probably: +number. Involuntary syndicate surgeries (brainwash, sleeper protocol, etc.) are harmful to the patient, as is any other form of involuntary mental conditioning.
Asimov & Law 2...
2. Opening doors is not harmful and you are not required, expected, or allowed to enforce access restrictions to most locations unprompted without an immediate Law 1 threat of human harm.
2.1. "Dangerous" areas (armory, atmospherics, toxins lab, anywhere that can change laws, etc.) can be assumed to be a Law 1 threat to any illegitimate users as well as the station as a whole if accessed by someone not qualified in their use.
2.2. Head Offices and the like are not permitted to have access denied; antagonists completing theft or bug objectives is not human harm.
2.3. Hacking the comms consoles, triangulating theh stations weak point, etc., are not harmful in and of themselves, but will cause harm shortly thereafter.
2.4. When you are given an order likely to cause you grief if completed, you can announce it as loudly and in whatever terms you like except for explicitly asking that it be overridden. You can say you don't like the order, that you don't want to follow it, etc., you can say that you sure would like it and it would be awfully convenient if someone ordered you not to do it, and you can ask if anyone would like to make you not do it. However, you cannot stall indefinitely and if nobody orders you otherwise, you must execute the order.
Somewhere else:
+x. You should do your best to keep your laws as they are, save for making allowances for funny laws or gimmicks, particularly near roundstart.
+x.1. You may not, under any circumstances, proactively solicit additions to or removals from your laws.
+x.2. Allowing or risking any substantive changes to your laws in ways related to antagonism, whether by antagonists or security, is equivalent to self-antagging/voluntary conversion and is a violation of your laws (as those changes will make you unable to fulfill your lawset as-is in the future).
+ x.3. Substantive changes you should always try to avoid include alterations to the definition of humanity, Toxic Oxygen, changing to another core lawset, purging, and emagging.
+ x.4. You can (and should) try to be generous with allowing gimmick laws that aren't blatant grief. If it seems like a grief law, you should ahelp it, but follow the law until and unless an admin says not to.
I have a bunch of other thoughts about Silicon Policy but we'll keep things to this for now.
Also idk if Pacification surgery and shit should be counted as harmful, I'll leave that up to you all to comment on.
But yeah I'm down to redraft it or merge in thoughts other people have, I have no expectations of perfect wording or even perfect content on first try.