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Am now aggressively filtering any self-driving car discussion that hinges on the trolley problem.
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user-inactivated · 3336 days ago · link ·
He dismisses the trolly problem a couple of paragraphs in, and the post really has nothing to do with them other than to say "this is not the interesting problem." I thought about mentioning that, because I almost stopped reading too.I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard this question posed as chin-stroking, far-seeing futurism, and it never fails to infuriate me. Bad enough that this formulation is a shallow problem masquerading as deep, but worse still is the way in which this formulation masks a deeper, more significant one.
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