Psy-Kosh comments on The Trolley Problem in popular culture: Torchwood Series 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 29 July 2009 07:47:52PM 1 point [-]

"shut up and multiply" is, in principle, a way to weigh various considerations like the value of autonomy, etc etc etc...

It's not "here's shut up and multiply" vs "some other value here", but "plug in your values + actual current situation including possible courses of action and compute"

Some of us are then saying "it is our moral position that human lives are so incredibly valuable that a measure of dignity for a few doesn't outweigh the massively greater suffering/etc that would result from the implied battle that would ensue from the 'battle of honor' route"

Comment author: jwdink 29 July 2009 08:08:13PM *  0 points [-]

Ah, then I misunderstood. A better way of phrasing my challenge might be: it sounds like we might have different algorithms, so prove to me that your algorithm is more rational.

No one has answered this challenge.