_Robert_ wrote:

Thanks Davis. I have committed just about everything on your list at least one time except for waterboarding of course. The last one was my favorite. I needed stuff for the confessional you know.

You haven’t lived until you extract unreliable information from a perhaps innocent person through torture you could claim isn’t really t…[Read more]

Objective methods don’t work.

@Robert. Indeed. One thing I very much like about deontological moral systems, is that you become the law maker. No one needs to dictate laws to you. The only challenge is how seriously you take your own moral rules. Under some versions of deontological morality, there is no better or worse crime (in theory), only b…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

robots acting with “good intentions”?

It does remind me of “Data” in Star Trek, who seems the only character that follows the rules to its most difficult rendering (often in danger to him) and his final sacrafice. The few times he breaks those rules (like rescuing the little girl on a Vulcanic planet) he does it by h…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

@davis – “hierarchies” – what I mean is, we can compare any two crimes and usually, one will be worse than another.

Great. Could you please at least list those 15 unfavorable acts from worst to least worse???

Quixotic, eh? – If we had candidates who did not have us tilting at windmills then they would merit a vote 🙂

Would Kant have had much to say on the “duty” of humans who send killer robots to war if they were programed never to kill civilians…..i.e. robots acting with “good intentions”?

Gee, if only you guys and MANY thousands more who share your ideas would run for and get elected to legislatures.

Quixotic, eh?

I do have a black sense of humor at times. The word I had in mind was Schadenfreude 🙂

Davis: It’s partly the reason why I am really hesistant to take some moral systems seriously.

I too will always act unpredictably. Don’t hold your breath until I explain.

Reg: The Nazi party lost and are now all dead. If only there was some word, maybe a German one, to describe how that makes me feel.

Freude? Pleasure. (from my compact Eng/Ger dictionary)