Should a country where cryonic preservation is routine try to take over one where it is forbidden?
Or a country where anti-aging medicine delivered in international aid is being stolen and wasted to prevent out-groups from receiving treatment?
It’s a moderately interesting question though only because our current moral frameworks privilege “do nothing and let something bad happen” over “do something and cause something bad but less bad to happen”.
It’s just the Trolley problem restated. The solve I have for the trolley problem is viewing the agent in front of the lever as a robotic control system. Every timestep, the control system must output a control packet, on a CAN or rs-485 bus. There is nothing special or privileged between a packet that says “keep the actuators in their current position” and “move to flip the lever”.
Therefore the trolley problem vanishes from a moral sense. From a legal sense, a court of law might try to blame the robot, however.
Should a country where cryonic preservation is routine try to take over one where it is forbidden?
Or a country where anti-aging medicine delivered in international aid is being stolen and wasted to prevent out-groups from receiving treatment?
It’s a moderately interesting question though only because our current moral frameworks privilege “do nothing and let something bad happen” over “do something and cause something bad but less bad to happen”.
It’s just the Trolley problem restated. The solve I have for the trolley problem is viewing the agent in front of the lever as a robotic control system. Every timestep, the control system must output a control packet, on a CAN or rs-485 bus. There is nothing special or privileged between a packet that says “keep the actuators in their current position” and “move to flip the lever”.
Therefore the trolley problem vanishes from a moral sense. From a legal sense, a court of law might try to blame the robot, however.