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user-inactivated  ·  3516 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should your robot driver kill you to save a child's life?

Understanding the technology is never a requirement for writing about the philosophical problems it looks like it might pose if you don't understand it.

You can't blame them though, it's not like Sebastian Thrun made an introduction suitable for anyone who vaguely recalls their high school math classes or anything.





kleinbl00  ·  3516 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, but it is for posing thought experiments. The whole point is to control the variables in order to get an output that matters. Proposing an autonomous vehicle that will out-drive its sensors is intellectually lazy in the extreme.