The problem comes up in discussions of ethics and moral choice, pitting the idea of responsibility against the measurement of good by an end result. On the one hand, it might seem obvious that the deaths of five would be a worse result than the death of an individual. On the other hand...
Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaOne of the original versions of the trolley problem is this: Why does it seem permissible or even obligatory to kill one track worker to save five others by redirecting a runaway trolley but grossly wrong to execute an innocent...
Trolley problemDilemmaEthicsAutomated vehicles have to make decisions, such as driving maneuvers or rerouting, based on environment data and decision algorithms. There is a question whether ethical aspects should be considered in these algorithms. When all available decisions within a situation have ...
你会杀死那个胖子吗?:一个关于对与错的哲学谜题:the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong 喜欢 0 阅读量: 106 作者: 戴维・埃德蒙兹 展开 摘要: 本书通过讲述一个个引人入胜的故事,告诉了读者哲学家们为什么以及如何与这个哲学谜题抗争,而对这一问题的回答将可以告诉...
the trolley problem is a classic thought experiment in ethics that raises questions about moral decision-making in situations where different outcomes could result from a single action. it involves a hypothetical scenario in which a person is standing at a switch and can divert a trolley (or ...
EthicsMoral dilemmasMoral psychologyTrolley ProblemIn this paper, I provide a general introduction to the trolley problem. I describe its birth as a philosophical thought experiment, then its successful career in moral psychology. I explain the differ...
(Quick AI bias side note: what are the chances the main character would be named Sarah in both stories?) Winner: Claude Claude is a superior editing assistant Proofreading and fact-checking is an AI use case with enormous potential; theoretically, it could free human editors from hours of ...
While scientists are still sorting out what makes people motion sick, they’ve already figured out a decent way to treat the third of the population that is prone to it—and it turns out they did it completely by accident. In 1947, a Baltimore woman came down with hives. She was so ...
Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong. Woodstock, Oxforshire: Princeton University Press, 2014. Print.Edmonds, David. Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong. ...
(an idea that later became the premise for The Matrix movies). Descartes’ thought experiment was designed to help us ask what we actually know about the world. There is a litany of other examples. TheTrolley Car Problemfocuses attention on our moral intuitions. TheGettier Examplesc...