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==Transcript== :[Describe panel here] :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."
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