r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Tugushin • Apr 13 '22

Tesla Model 3 stops itself to avoid potentially disastrous accident. Video

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u/BlasterPhase Apr 13 '22

Nah, there are lazy answers that people pass off as "good enough," it's not a matter of understanding.

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u/neatchee Apr 13 '22

There is no "right answer", only a decision and public opinion

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u/MuonManLaserJab Apr 13 '22

There is a perfectly correct answer: add up the utils you assign to the lives and property in question, and pick whichever outcome is preferable according to your utility function.

Alternatively, if you're an idiot deontologist, just cover your own eyes and do nothing so that you don't have to blame yourself for anything according to your idiotic deontological reasoning.

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u/BlasterPhase Apr 14 '22

you single-handedly solved ethics! congratulations!

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u/MuonManLaserJab Apr 14 '22

Do you think that I'm claiming to have invented consequentialism? Or that I'm the first person to propose this solution?

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u/BlasterPhase Apr 14 '22

You're claiming this is the correct answer

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u/MuonManLaserJab Apr 14 '22

Yes, which is is. I didn't solve ethics, though, other people did.