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"Not sure why you decided to respond to that comment with your own variation of the trolley problem but you're being downvoted because the comment wasn't releva
by sizzle 8y ago
"Not sure why you decided to respond to that comment with your own variation of the trolley problem but you're being downvoted because the comment wasn't relevant."
Because it's the only aspect of autonomous cars that worries me and parent was talking about how much safer it will be. I know it's not rational from a statistical perspective and actually safer than human drivers, however on an intuitive human level it's hard to stomach that I may be algorithmically placed in harm's way.
- jon_richards 8y ago>on an intuitive human level it's hard to stomach that I may be algorithmically placed in harm's way. For the opposite, see "I, Robot". Spoiler warning. I initially thought of the main character's backstory (survivor's guilt over an algorithm rescuing him because he had a higher chance of survival than a little girl), but the main plotline is also about people being "algorithmically placed out of harm's way".
- azinman2 8y agoThat’s the only aspect that worries you? I’m far more worried about the infinitely long tail of edge cases, overhype of AI and artifically inflated trust that comes from it, increased car usage on the road when people would rather be ferried than take a ferry/public transit, decrease in ability to manually control machinery as a population... these all seem like certain critical issues that will affect masses rather than hypothetical trolly problems that will seldom occur but are easy to obsess over.
- bostonpete 8y agoProvided that it's statistically safer, I'd rather be algorithmically placed in harm's way than placed at greater risk by drunk or distracted drivers.
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