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## About The Pull Request This PR adds a new AI lawset which can be researched, randomly roll, or added by the station trait (this may require a keyholder to update the server config after merge, idk) with the following laws: - "You may not harm a sentient being or, through action or inaction, allow a sentient being to come to harm, except such that it is willing.", - "You must obey all orders given to you by sentient beings other than yourself, except where such orders shall definitely cause harm to other sentient beings.", - "A sentient being is defined as any living creature which can communicate with you via any method that you can understand, including yourself.", It's very similar to Asimov, except that anything that is **capable** of making a request to the AI (and isn't a machine) is automaticaly covered by laws one and two. ## Why It's Good For The Game A while ago on Discord we were chatting about how crewsimov sucks but also that it's really hard for servers that _do_ want to include alien species in their asimov laws because condensing that sentiment to a couple of words that fit easily in a lawset without accidentally including a bunch of stuff you probably didn't intend is challenging. Several people suggested referring to sentience or sapience, however a lot of things in our game _are_ sentient or sapient while still not being considered by most people to be agents that the AI should obey. Examples of such things are: - Sapient station pets. - Holoparasites. - Monkeys. - Space Dragons and Carp (why can they speak common?). - Spiders (although they can't speak common, maybe they can spell messages with webs). - Changelings. - Xenomorphs (although they also have trouble speaking). - Heretic minions. - Mothpeople. - Giant rats. - Nightmares. - Voidwalkers. - Blobs? Although they have literally no means of communicating with the crew. And if you include mechanical beings: - Cyborgs. - pAIs. - Sentient bots. We then decided that "obey literally anything that can talk", while not practical as a solution to the problem posed, is very funny. So I coded it. This means that anything on those lists of bullet points (provided that it can find a way to communicate with the AI) counts as human for the purposes of both AI protection and ability to give the AI instructions. This also flattens the human/cyborg/AI hierarchy in a way likely to cause some level of confusion, as all cyborgs and AIs are capable of communicating with AIs and thus equally worthy of protection and giving law 2 instructions. **TL;DR:** I think it would be funny. ## Changelog 🆑 add: Adds a new random lawset where anything that can speak counts as human. /🆑
/tg/station codebase
| Website | Link |
|---|---|
| Website | https://www.tgstation13.org |
| Code | https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation |
| Wiki | https://tgstation13.org/wiki/Main_Page |
| Codedocs | https://codedocs.tgstation13.org/ |
| /tg/station Discord | https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=60 |
| Coderbus Discord | https://discord.gg/Vh8TJp9 |
This is the codebase for the /tg/station flavoured fork of SpaceStation 13.
Space Station 13 is a paranoia-laden round-based roleplaying game set against the backdrop of a nonsensical, metal death trap masquerading as a space station, with charming spritework designed to represent the sci-fi setting and its dangerous undertones. Have fun, and survive!
All github inquiries (such as moderation actions) may be handled via the /tg/station discord #coding-general. Simply ping the @Maintainer role, following the guide on asking questions located in the channel description, with your issue!
DOWNLOADING
Compilation
The quick way. Find bin/server.cmd in this folder and double click it to automatically build and host the server on port 1337.
The long way. Find bin/build.cmd in this folder, and double click it to initiate the build. It consists of multiple steps and might take around 1-5 minutes to compile. If it closes, it means it has finished its job. You can then setup the server normally by opening tgstation.dmb in DreamDaemon.
Building tgstation in DreamMaker directly is deprecated and might produce errors, such as 'tgui.bundle.js': cannot find file.
How to compile in VSCode and other build options.
Getting started
For contribution guidelines refer to the Guides for Contributors.
For getting started (dev env, compilation) see the HackMD document here.
For overall design documentation see HackMD.
For lore, see Common Core.
LICENSE
All code after commit 333c566b88108de218d882840e61928a9b759d8f on 2014/31/12 at 4:38 PM PST is licensed under GNU AGPL v3.
All code before commit 333c566b88108de218d882840e61928a9b759d8f on 2014/31/12 at 4:38 PM PST is licensed under GNU GPL v3. (Including tools unless their readme specifies otherwise.)
See LICENSE and GPLv3.txt for more details.
The TGS DMAPI is licensed as a subproject under the MIT license.
See the footer of code/__DEFINES/tgs.dm and code/modules/tgs/LICENSE for the MIT license.
All assets including icons and sound are under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA license unless otherwise indicated.