thomblake comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 21 April 2009 03:24:31PM *  2 points [-]

That's one of the stated objectives of computer ethics (my philosophical sub-field) - to determine, in general, how to solve problems that nobody's thought of yet. I'm not sure how well we're doing at that so far.