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How to set a law allowing space explorers to collect keepsakes
I'm in the early stages of thinking up a space science fiction story about a particular group of scientists and young explorers on mission to investigate some points of interest in the galaxy. Their ...
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How accountable would a person be for a crime committed when under alien influence?
In my story, my MC ends up hosting a known (and common) alien life form within their head to keep it alive by joining with another sentient being; as a result, both host and alien life form's ...
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How to discover hiding modified humans and their missions? [closed]
Consider an earthlike world where the following happened:
An UFO "crashed" somewhere on Earth some yrs ago.
It sunk into a swamp and was never found (since the swamp was huge and the UFO was small).
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How would Asiimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" be enforced effectively for robots built by private companies? [closed]
For a storytelling project, I'm trying to imagine a world in which fairly advanced, bipedal robots are being developed and produced by private companies.
As these robots would be capable of easily ...
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In a world where everything you do is recorded, should there be judgments? [closed]
This world has the following characteristics:
Futurist world where death is already cured and our bodies are full of nanomachines that improve us.
These nanomachines record everything we do. Ex. ...
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Prosecuting crime when the means used to commit it are far beyond current understanding
This is a rewrite of this question in an attempt to bring it back in topic and avoid the story based objections.
Imagine a world like ours but where a temporary portal could be constructed between ...
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Should we give sentient NPCS human rights? [closed]
I am a game master in the most advanced virtual reality MMORPG. In this virtual lands NPCs are sentient beings: they reproduce, feel emotions and behave identical to humans. That's great, isn't it? Oh,...
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New laws for clone marriage? [closed]
After the evil Cynndor aliens destroyed our ability to naturally reproduce, scientists perfected cloning techniques. But for some scientific reason, you can only reproduce with a clone of yourself of ...
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How to justify a "prime directive" law? [closed]
I am attempting to develop a coherent argument for a "prime directive," or law that respects the right to self-determination of less advanced civilizations. In Star Trek the Prime Directive is ...
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Sensible regulations on sentient AI with citizenship rights
In the science fiction universe I'm working on, I've had it written that sentient AI have citizen's rights. I've been developing this setting for nearly a decade. Trying to refine the older parts now ...
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Could an omniscient creature replace judges in trials?
In my world, an Omniscient creature exists.
We don't know how it got here, or if it was created, but it's real, and it's been "willing" to help humans for a long time now. However, every thing we ...
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What is valid evidence in a world with perfect CGI technology?
There are already real-world problems with analyzing whether particular graphic evidence is "photo-shopped" or genuine. In sci-fi technologically advanced future, realistic and perfect computer ...
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