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Comment Re:What about Google driverless car? (Score 1) 603

I find the trolley problem retarded. I can't help but ask, what are those people doing on the track in the first place. Even on the transplant version, it's basically down to the decision maker's own choice and has nothing to do with social morality. What if the 5 patients were strangers and the 1 healthy person is your mother? What if the 5 patients were strangers and the healthy patient is a dog? What about 5 dogs and 1 kid, and so on to infinity.

The value systems in the world is so varied that I've seen people run into a fire to save his watch for example. Where is the "wrong" then? If I was flipping the switch, I wouldn't be thinking whether 5 people or 1 person. I would be thinking will the bodies derail the train and injure me, will there me 5 more next mile, when will it stop. As it turns out in life, there're an infinite of 5 more the next mile and so on. And the hi-score does rack up quick!

Comment What if you're blind. (Score 2) 147

And the door is triple sized so the blind doesn't even know he walked through a door. What if it's a normal size door and he felt that he walked through something but being blind from birth, the door concept must have been real different from us.

Are they better at remembering things?

What if they change the experiment to automatic doors, glass vs. wood, etc. It'd be interesting.

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