Replace blue and green with protestant and catholic, 95% with 60% and what you get is the Thirty Years’ War and the beginning of the modern world order.
Up to 60% “in some areas of Germany”, Wikipedia says. Considering Europe as a whole, it says 8 million out of about 75 million. But yes, the Thirty Years War ended when the parties finally got it through their heads that neither side would ever win. That beginning of the modern world order was the great agreement to disagree that was the Peace of Westphalia, and even that involved conferences at two different places because the parties couldn’t bear to all meet each other together.
Thirty years. One generation. Maybe no-one ever changed their minds, it’s just that the ones who grew up with it and then came into power realised that none of it had ever mattered.
Should a country where cryonic preservation is routine try to take over one where it is forbidden?
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.
I think it’s not just that the old generation has died out. It’s also that the conflict theorists shut up for a while after such a bloodshed and gave the people like Hugo Grotius a window of opportunity to create the international law.
Similar thing, by the way, happened in Europe after WWII. I’ve written about it here. I wonder whether this opening of the window of opportunity after a major catastrophe is a common occurrence. If so, working on possible courses of action in advance, so that they can be quickly applied once a catastrophe is over, may be a usful strategy.
Replace blue and green with protestant and catholic, 95% with 60% and what you get is the Thirty Years’ War and the beginning of the modern world order.
Up to 60% “in some areas of Germany”, Wikipedia says. Considering Europe as a whole, it says 8 million out of about 75 million. But yes, the Thirty Years War ended when the parties finally got it through their heads that neither side would ever win. That beginning of the modern world order was the great agreement to disagree that was the Peace of Westphalia, and even that involved conferences at two different places because the parties couldn’t bear to all meet each other together.
Thirty years. One generation. Maybe no-one ever changed their minds, it’s just that the ones who grew up with it and then came into power realised that none of it had ever mattered.
Should a country where cryonic preservation is routine try to take over one where it is forbidden?
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.
Aside from ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or ‘it depends on X’, there are also other actions that can be taken.
I think it’s not just that the old generation has died out. It’s also that the conflict theorists shut up for a while after such a bloodshed and gave the people like Hugo Grotius a window of opportunity to create the international law.
Similar thing, by the way, happened in Europe after WWII. I’ve written about it here. I wonder whether this opening of the window of opportunity after a major catastrophe is a common occurrence. If so, working on possible courses of action in advance, so that they can be quickly applied once a catastrophe is over, may be a usful strategy.