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It's useful to me in that it shows, along with the transplant problem, that Utilitarianism Is Insufficient. But it's philosophy, it doesn't have to have applic
by flir 3y ago
It's useful to me in that it shows, along with the transplant problem, that Utilitarianism Is Insufficient.
But it's philosophy, it doesn't have to have applications to be interesting.
- PlunderBunny 3y agoThanks - I hadn't quite thought of it in those terms re: utilitarianism. As discussion of 'self-driving cars' ramped up towards the end of the last decade, I read many opinions that this was going to require (or demonstrate) a machine being forced to 'solve' the trolley problem in the seconds prior to an accident, but even then it seemed silly to me - it might have looked like the trolley problem on the surface, but otherwise had no relationship.