[ExI] Autonomous car ethics

[William Flynn Wallace]

The discrepancy is similar to attitudes in the Riis, Simmons et al. study
on cognitive enhancers: there was no correlation between willingness to
take different enhancers and willingness to ban them. People were quite
happy to take enhancers they thought should be banned.  anders

I think it's a superiority thing as well.  "I can handle these things but
lesser people might not and cause who knows what sorts of trouble."  This
sort of hypocrisy exists in politicians who smoke dope and snort cocaine
but are unwilling to vote to make them legal.
bill w

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:13 AM, Anders <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> The original paper can be found at
> http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6293/1573
>
> The discrepancy is similar to attitudes in the Riis, Simmons et al. study
> on cognitive enhancers: there was no correlation between willingness to
> take different enhancers and willingness to ban them. People were quite
> happy to take enhancers they thought should be banned.
>
> A reason might be that people think it would be bad for society to have
> the enhancers in question around because they would cause more competition,
> but considering their own life enhancement would be good for them. So they
> actually hold a rational position. Except that it produces a public goods
> dilemma (maybe... I think their evaluation on the competition point is just
> wrong).
>
>
>
> On 2016-06-23 23:16, BillK wrote:
>
>> Should a self-driving car kill its passengers for the greater good –
>> for instance, by swerving into a wall to avoid hitting a large number
>> of pedestrians? Surveys of nearly 2,000 US residents revealed that,
>> while we strongly agree that autonomous vehicles should strive to save
>> as many lives as possible, we are not willing to buy such a car for
>> ourselves, preferring instead one that tries to preserve the lives of
>> its passengers at all costs.
>>
>> <http://www.gizmag.com/driverless-car-ethics/43926/>
>>
>> Quote:
>> As the researchers explained, this problem is a glaring example of the
>> so-called tragedy of the commons, a situation in which a shared
>> resource is depleted by individual users acting out of self-interest.
>> In this case, even though society as a whole would be better off using
>> utilitarian algorithms alone, an individual can still improve his
>> chances of survival by choosing a self-preserving car at the cost of
>> overall public safety.
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>>
>> BillK
>>
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> Oxford Martin School
> Oxford University
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