Its atheistic, utilitarian and egalitarian doctrines raised a public outcry and Helvétius was forced to issue several retractions. 第五十五页,编辑于星期二:二十一点 三十二分。 Text Study _III_3.1 Comprehension Exercises Text Study Comprehension Exercises Which of the following philosophers first put ...
"Offsets" will not compute for a strict utilitarian. Elliot (9y, via fb): I was thinking of your murder example, but I think I didn't correctly follow what you were getting at. I'm inclined to think that if you are considering killing human beings and you are doing some sort of QA...
Effective altruism does not mean supporting ‘ends justify the means’ reasoning, but rather is about being a good citizen, while ambitiously working toward a better world. These principles are not absolutes, and are subject to revision, but we think they’re important and undervalued by society...
we found that respondents favored the management directives predicated on the narratives they entertained, i.e., beliefs about wolves and nature more broadly. We identified 18 narratives that ranged from the extreme of “beings-
From this follows a utilitarian argument of whether people have the responsibility to stay healthy to avoid putting a strain on their country's healthcare system. Do we have to keep fit as service to society? Should machines actively point to our misbehaviour to facilitate this and take action...
So, the way that you build a system that predicts using machine learning is very utilitarian, right? You say there’s some cost function you wanna minimize, there’s some objective function we want to target, and then you train it. And you don’t really worry about the reasoning, because...
To illustrate why, Appiah considers a mock dispute between a utilitarian (Dr. Welfare) and a defender of partiality (Prof. Partiality). Complying with the latter’s weaker requirement pretty well might be better than complying with the former’s requirement not at all, so if one assumes that...
But if the existence of something apart from postable, quantifiable, monetizable, digitally transmissible data is in doubt, one thing is not: the Internet is an expression of radically materialist and utilitarian values which stand in opposition to leisure as Pieper described it, and therefore to...
That might be too utilitarian. Let’s try this: Would we choose this world? I want to believe we have the free will to choose how to construct the structure our society, but I also recognize the limitations placed on free will by the structure of the society we are born into, biologica...
Kimel: I define evil as curable physical torment that leads to no utilitarian ends. Progress is its elimination and the creation of the capacity for more art, love, health, and scientific understanding. Evil is always undesirable in some ways but not in all ways by all people; and the unde...