tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499217243284937366.post395762327012814381..comments2024-03-25T08:56:25.810-04:00Comments on TKIN: Philosopher Encounters Modern Life: When Self-Driving Cars Become Moral And Kiss Your Ass GoodbyePatricia Marinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087880431696831634noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499217243284937366.post-47626167803815509502016-02-20T21:48:58.207-05:002016-02-20T21:48:58.207-05:00Why would a rich guy buy a car with a Utilitarian ...Why would a rich guy buy a car with a Utilitarian moral code? He'd be better off gaming the system so that one second of his time would show up as contributing more to Total Utility than the Present Value of the lives of those whom he runs over.<br />If one has faith in some version of Gibbard's 'Revelation Principle', I suppose there could still be a good faith debate about mechanism design for self-driving cars. The problem is that, assuming a lag between mechanism implementation and its competitive gaming and that data sets and information processing power increases over time, the super rich will always be able to stack the deck in their favor. You would get super-rich only lanes- like the Commissars only lanes in the old Soviet Union- but that would provoke a reaction from the hoi polloi and so the morality chipsets will be removed from their clunkers. <br />A separate issue is that the 'Revelation Principle' or the 'Folk theorem of repeated games'may be ab ovo wrong headed. Knightian Uncertainty may be something which co-evolves as a sort of entropy pump- so reducing it might be fatal. In so far as Ethics reflects on Life- i.e. isn't an availability cascade simply- it compromises its own existence by messing with real world stuff. <br />I suppose that was Isaac Asimov's point when his ethical Robot disguised himself as a human to get the wheels rolling in his 'Foundation' series. windwheelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18099651877551933295noreply@blogger.com