XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 2/21/2022 4:38 AM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > I was watching "Raised By Wolves" last night and the phrase "Direct   
   > Order" was used to instruct an android to do something it didn't want   
   > to do.   
   >   
   > The only other place I have seen that term used in that context is in   
   > Mark Stanley's "Freefall" web comic, where it is used not only with   
   > androids but with all AIs including organic ones.   
   >   
   > I don't recall seeing it elsewhere.  Does anybody have an earlier   
   > usage?   
   >   
   Its a military term (which I expect you know) so anything that involves   
   military probably will use the phrase at some point.   
      
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