Although I somewhat agree with the comment about style, I feel that the point you're making could be received with some more enthusiasm. How well-recognized is this trolley problem fallacy? The way I see it, the energy spent on thinking about the trolley problem in isolation illustrates innate human short-sightedness and perhaps a clear limit of human intelligence as well. 'Correctly' solving one trolley problem does not prevent that you or someone else will be confronted with the next. My line of arguing is that the question of ethical decision making req...
Nice! I actually had this as a loose idea in the back of my mind for a while, to have a network of people connected like this and have them signal to each other their track of the day, which could be actual fun. It is a feasible use case as well. The underlying reasoning is also that (at least for me) I would be more open to adopt an idea from a person with whom you feel a shared sense of collectivity, instead of an algorithm that thinks it knows me. Intrinsically, I want such an algorithm to be wrong, for the sake of my own autonomy :)
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