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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by RobertRoberts on Friday August 09, 2019 @06:37PM (#20658771)
Robots will do all those things you suggest simultaneously, and watch every street with cameras, scan faces at every store, pull over cars remotely, turn off your power in your house, get your fired from your job, etc... This is better than racist cops?

By being outraged at one cop's admission of a short cut to finding people who are due in court we are bringing the abomination of robots down on our heads.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by inetknght on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:20PM (#20659324)
> Robots will do all those things you suggest simultaneously, and

And... humanity needs to have a serious discussion about the merits and risks of all of that before we rush to deploy AI.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by RobertRoberts on Sunday August 11, 2019 @01:05AM (#20666347)
My point was that people aren't looking for a real solution, they are just outraged irrationally about current events and not seeing how the masses are being steered towards a worse result than they currently have.
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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by adventured on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:21AM (#20660681)
No, it's still wrong, immoral, to kill that innocent person to save the crowd of people.

You may, however, still choose to do it anyway, knowing full well that it's immoral.

If killing one innocent person will somehow magically save one million, that too is immoral. And I'd kill that one person to save the million regardless, accepting that it is an immoral act. It's a worthwhile thing to live with, to save so many. Obviously this is in the land of outlandish hypotheticals. Non-the-less, the morality is just the same if the ratio is 1 to 10, 1 to 100, or 1 to one million: intentionally killing - murdering - an innocent person is immoral in all circumstances.

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Re:Huntington Park’s “RoboCop” stores pedestrians’ faces, sc... by kmlx on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:52AM (#20661341)
c’mon guys, this is the old trolley dilemma:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.iflscience.com/editors-bl...

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