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Apropos of what @rott was saying about automated autos:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-human-history/559124/

Henry Kissinger?!

I don't know how much of this applies to self-driving cars. Even Elon Musk said that AI is one of the great dangers on the future.

Also advanced AI is not cheap in terms of energy. AlphaGo is estimated to use a megawatt.

Good link BTW

They mention Automated vehicles in the article, specifically if a car has to make a horrible decision, like hit a grandparent or a grandchild...etc. Excellent point about the cost, but with more advances that's likely to change as well. IDK why, but it fascinates me.

I read that. Later on he says how technologists have to grapple with these questions and not philosophers because it's out of their reach, but I disagree. Deciding whether hitting a grandparent or child is a better choice is exactly the sort of ethical value problem that philosophy explores, otherwise known as the 'trolley problem'.

Machines are better equipped to decide too. No person would actually be able to decide within a split second which person to hit, they just hit whoever and deal with the aftermath. Machines however can and there's no reason why this can't be programmed in the system.

Interesting point. He's saying that it's basically not possible with current tech, since everything is based on mathematical calculations and narrow parameters, but if they could overcome that hurdle, I agree.