I mean, some of Isaac Asimov’s stories was about robots trying to decide if the emotional harm they caused breached the first law.
Still though, Asimov imagined every chatbot would be a big bulky robot, not a tiny app in your pocket.
So far the XCOM series has been pretty good at that. Each game typically has 1 big pack which feels worth the money and 1 or 2 chea[ stinkers there’s no need/push to buy
Ok, but you can’t actually isolate ‘knowledge of addictive behaviour’ into a regulatable thing without an absurd amount of government oversight i.e. examing every employees work to check they aren’t using that pesky psyschology degree.
Ok, but what would be the legal precendent there? We regulate tabacco precisely because of it’s psychological and medical effects, not because it’s bad for your wallet. This lawsuit depends upon a claim of addiction because you can’t just regulate something for annoying you.
The thing is if you do that the other guy will just make a super-hero film in 4-9 years, collecting all the hard work you spent making the genre scarce again.
People kept making westerns for as long as they just barely made any money, I’m sure the same will happen with ‘capeshit’
I mean, some of Isaac Asimov’s stories was about robots trying to decide if the emotional harm they caused breached the first law. Still though, Asimov imagined every chatbot would be a big bulky robot, not a tiny app in your pocket.