Re:A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)
by ironmagma on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:51PM
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I’m pretty sure even a computer would agree that whether a defendant is sentenced to prison or not shouldn’t depend on whether the judge has eaten lunch yet.
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Re:A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)
by vurpo on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:18PM
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A computer won't tell you anything about what "should" or "shouldn't" happen.
If you were to (theoretically) simulate the whole judgement process with all of its real world parameters, including whether or not the judge has eaten lunch yet, the computer would definitely conclude that the result will depend on whether the judge has eaten lunch yet.
However, whether or not it should depend on that is a judgement that the computer can't and won't make.
Re:A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)
by ironmagma on Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:59AM
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That’s a fairly baseless assertion to make. There’s nothing fundamentally special about the human mind that a computer couldn’t plausibly simulate eventually, and morality is included. A computer could just as easily develop morality as a human would. I would even argue it’s inevitable.