Other people’s preferences are part of states of the world, and states of the world are fed into the machine.
Not part of the original spec!!!
Fair enough. In that case, the machine would tell you something like “Find out expected states of the world. If it’s A, do X. If it’s B, do Y”.
It may well, but that’ is a less interesting and comtentious claim. It’s fairly widely accepted that the sum total of ethi.cs is inferrable from (supervenes on) the sum total of facts.
Other people’s preferences are part of states of the world, and states of the world are fed into the machine.
Not part of the original spec!!!
Fair enough. In that case, the machine would tell you something like “Find out expected states of the world. If it’s A, do X. If it’s B, do Y”.
It may well, but that’ is a less interesting and comtentious claim. It’s fairly widely accepted that the sum total of ethi.cs is inferrable from (supervenes on) the sum total of facts.