Re:Absurd Trolley Problems
by spoonjim on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @03:16AM
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Wouldn't sacrifice any humans for a billion monkeys
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If you were a monkey, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a monkey?
Or equivalently, would you sacrifice a billion humans to save a robot that's twice as sentient as the average human?
I cannot really say what I would do if I was a monkey, it's like asking me what a circle with corners would look like. Too far outside my ability to imagine. I wouldn't sacrifice any number of humans to save any kind of robot either, unless it was a robot critical to human survival like a surgical robot in the middle of a natural disaster.
Would you save a monkey whose body contains antibodies for the cure for cancer for humans (or AIDS/HIV/whatever), or 1 human?