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So, you would flip the railroad switch to kill only 1 instead of 5 helpless people?

• roflc0ptic 3y ago
  the math checks out
• pjot 3y ago
  MIT recreated this thought experiment to research the “morality” in autonomous vehicles. https://www.moralmachine.net/ https://www.moralmachine.net/
  • bandyaboot 3y ago
    It interprets telling the vehicle to crash into a barrier rather than hit pedestrians as not placing as much value on protecting passengers. But really, this is just a recognition that the passengers are far more protected in a crash than the pedestrian are when getting hit by the car. Instead of a barrier, it should be a large cliff or something.
    • dtech 3y ago
      It explicitly states the passengers will be killed
      • bandyaboot 3y ago
        Never has my lack of attention to detail cost so many lives.