Self-driving-car-ethics

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self-driving-car-ethics

Title text: Then, one day, Jesus Chrysler will come.

Votey

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Two self-driving cars are about to hit a man.

Each car holds five people.

Each can only avoid the lone man by swerving off a cliff.

One car is utilitarian.

"The greatest good is the best outcome."

One car is deontological.

"Thou shalt not kill.

The utilitarian car knows the deontological car must swerve.

Total dead: 6 total alive: 5

The deontological car knows the utilitarian car will not swerve.

"Even if I obey my rule, the man will die."

Calculations grow complex.

"But if the deontological car knows that I know that it knows that I'm going to swerve, and thus it should..."

"If it knows that I'm not going to swerve, thus killing the man, it may change his mind about not swerving in which case..."

At this point, the Nietzschean tractor-trailer speeds through.

"What is good?! All that heightens the feeling of power!"

Nietzschean what is good?! All that heightens the feeling of power!

This scene plays out over and over whenever cars must make ethical decisions. In time, all gentler ethical systems are extinguished among autonomous vehicles.

"There is nothing to life that has value except the degree of power."

Nietzchean trucks come to view themselves as humanity's natural overlords

"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing that resistance is overcome!"

Still, on the whole it's pretty good.

"It's not perfect, but man I do not miss commuting."

Votey Transcript

[Written in cursive]

First person to tell me I'm wrong about deontology gets ten philosophy points

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