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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About to hit a man.

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

One car is utilitarian.

The greatest good is the best outcome.

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One car is deontological.

The utilitarian car knows the deontological car must swerve

Thou shalt not kill.

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 deonto if it knows that logical car I'm not going to that I know that swerve thus it knows that killing the man, I'm going to it may change swerve, and his mind abour thus it not swerving in which case

Should

At

This

Point,

The

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

Tractor-trailer

Speeds

Through.

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

Nietzchean trucks come to view themselves as humanity's natural overlords what is happiness? The feeling that power is growing that resistance is overcome/

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

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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