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Should you feel guilty about building technology that saves 10 lives for every 1 person that it kills? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/se

• thr0waway1239 10y ago
  No question that thought is comforting, but that is the example of the benefit which never appears before your eyes (i.e. it is not tangible, unlike the converse). I am not saying people should stop working on autonomous cars, it was just a comment on how fraught with moral weight the occupation is, particularly for the pioneers.
  • ArkyBeagle 10y ago
    But commercial aviation is extremely safe. I think the point is where it will be, not where it is. This being said, having to balance business issues and safety of a system with as long a lever-arm as this seems blindingly difficult. I wonder hos much of the real work here is ultimately more like insurance than engineering ( as if there were any real difference to start with ).
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• archagon 10y ago
  Not everyone has a strictly utilitarian viewpoint. One life lost might be a thousand times more horrifying than one life saved.
• Spooky23 10y ago
  People have different points of view. There are no doubt people working on applying the same technology to hunter/killer robots and missiles, etc.