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fsw | 6 months ago

Are you suggesting that killing a few people is acceptable as long as the net result is positive? I don't think that's how the law works.

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randyrand|6 months ago

seatbelts sometimes kill people, yet they're law.

the law certainly cares about net results.

coremoff|6 months ago

It's the trolley problem reframed; not sure we have a definitive answer to that.

dpassens|6 months ago

No. Central to the trolley problem is that you're in a _runaway_ trolley. In this case, OpenAI not only chose to start the trolley, they also chose to not brake even when it became apparent that they were going to run somebody over.

tick_tock_tick|6 months ago

But it is the standard on how cures/treatments/drugs to manage issues like the ones in the article are judged by.