If there was a train approaching a junction to two sets of tracks and was on course to kill four people. If given the opportunity would you switch the tracks to kill one person? What is the reason for your answer?
I will turn it to one person, but before that I will jump in front of the train in hopes to save all.
Maybe my hit will slow the train down.
I don’t like myself anyway.
1 Like
Sorry to hear that @anon10648258. But if I told you here is a gun, go shoot this person that you don’t know, we can use his organs to save five people. Would you go over and shoot some random person?
I’ll shoot myself and let people use my organs.
Very simple.
Except the heart because I have a genetic disease.
1 Like
What about the other person though, surely if you can kill that person on the tracks, this would be no different.
Well that’s why I’m jumping in front of the train to stop it and hopefully derail the train.
1 Like
Exactly. I’d derail the train
1 Like
If there were no other options, yes. But there are better versions of this dilemma which I couldn’t give the same answer to.
1 Like
I think you are wrong. You shouldn’t do a good deed from nefarious reasons, whatever the outcome. Even though the answer seems obvious, it is kind of a trick question.
I would kill the 5 people.
The world is over-populated anyway
1 Like
It is a trick question because answers are in fact rooted in psychology rather than in ethical theory. And needless to say it is complicated to surmise an ethical position from context-sensitive answers.
1 Like
It depends on your views on morality. Personally, I think it is the right thing to do, even in some of the more extreme versions of this problem. But that doesn’t mean I would be able to do it.
1 Like
thats a bit of an autonomous driving question. Take that opportunity and put it in machine learning hands. What should the decision be?
1 Like
Swerve off the tracks and kill the person behind the lever?
2 Likes
lol oh i meant instead of a person having the lever, the machine has control of the lever in the cab.
It can’t swerve. it must make a choice.
2 Likes
I know, it was a pretty bad joke.
2 Likes
I’m pretty interested in that too. Kill the 2 people in the road and let Darwinism take its course, or swerve to the pavement and kill the one innocent person. I wouldn’t feel safe if cars could do that.
1 Like
Yeah its pretty unnerving. Like who is responsible for that decision. The Company? the AI company? the government?
Da Dillemaaaaas
1 Like
I kind of literally believe in you should never say or do anything that would have a negative impact on someone life unless that person is saying or doing something that is doing the same. The morally right thing to do is just let nature take its course and let the four people die.
Yeah these are ethical dillemas
1 Like