[HN Gopher] Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
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       Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-03-14 08:58 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | electriclizard wrote:
       | Would a machine solving the trolly problem on whether to hit the
       | wall vs some cyclists ever choose to hit the wall in a way that
       | damages the driver, bounces into the people and damages some of
       | the people, but kills no one?
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       | I have seen accidents where a truck driver drives partially off
       | the road to slow down his truck and minimize damage, but does not
       | go entirely off it because that would kill him.
        
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       | belter wrote:
       | "...Using trolley-style problems in the context of autonomous
       | vehicles as a case study, I argue
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       | (1) that this is a misapplication of philosophical thought
       | experiments because
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       | (2) it fails to appreciate the purpose of moral dilemmas, and
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       | (3) this has potentially catastrophic consequences; however,
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       | (4) there are uses of moral dilemmas in machine ethics that are
       | appropriate and the novel situations that arise in a machine-
       | learning context can shed some light on philosophical work in
       | ethics..."
        
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