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Newp  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should your robot driver kill you to save a child's life?

What about this thought experiment: what would a human do in the same situation? Kill him or herself? I don't think so. We like to flatter ourselves with fantasies of self-sacrifice, but if a child appeared out of nowhere and our only chance to save the child involved launching ourselves over a cliff, would you really, REALLY take that option, considered that the child, though innocent, is 100% at fault in creating that situation?