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Ethical Dilemmas

Ethical dilemmas with no conclusive answer. Perhaps the only satisfying course of action is figure out a way to make it so we don't have to face them in reality.

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starfish on the beach story

Save one child or educate 10

don't ask what the world needs.  Ask what makes you alive and then go do that.

Versus Peter Singer ethics. If someone were dying right in front of you, and you were the only person to save them, you should jump in We have an ethical obligation to jump in.

And we're going to jump in even if you were wearing a suit that cost \$1,000 if a child is drowning in front of you,

trolley problem

s the purpose of technological advancement is not to resolve these problems but making the need to ask them in real circumstances, obsolete in creasing the size of the pie versus figuring out how to divvy it up.

I'm coming Harvard, MIT class president joke about figuring out how to stop the train.

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If We had perfect coordination How long will it take to get basic needs of everybody on Earth. Commit Such as screwed Shelter water security Both emotional and physical The answers answers. vary widely From days Two years to never but Perhaps the favorite one I've heard just 21 days which is fortunately how long it takes to change a habit. Go to habit Make a Since when I was doing Any suit human abilities even suit human abilities today to change new behaviors. My favorite answer is 21 days which is how It takes to change a habit. roughly the amount of time it takes to Ship food to The course area In the world One striking Figure That's eye opening Here is that robot budget deficit to provide everyone who's currently malnourished. As apparently Less than the amount Americans spend yearly on eating out. I'm not saying we should Give up our good lives. You hear about lives for the sake of not wishing that everyone gives a good life for the sake Saving strangers continents away. Morrow. What we are fighting for is not subsistence Living for everyone but rather quality living for everyone. And it's an unresolved after Gold dilemma rather Saving And Don't click a stamp On unresolved ethical dilemmas as to whether it is better to educate 10 children are to save 15 Results from starvation.

Again ethical dilemmas

What's the smallest number of people that would need to be working to keep society running? I heard you I'm getting my socks on how to optimistic view this is The manifesto of better living through technology Is intimately tied with an ethical responsibility to actually go do it if we know how

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