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A very amusing argument in favor of deontology. "What the heck happened here?" "The utilitarians just wanted to stand around and argue. Fortunately, there were a few deontologists, and they took quick action..."
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Replying to @tomgoldsteincs
there's a paper on this exact problem from AAAI '19. it's actually not hard at all for deontologists (it's in P), but PSPACE-complete for utilitarians. for Catholics ("doctrine of double effect") it is co-NP-complete gki.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/papers/lindner
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I would not recommend using this thread as a basis for altering your ethical framework. At least one response is upset, which was certainly not at all my intent :-( It's supposed to be funny. I am, for the record, certainly more utilitarian than deontologist (or Catholic FTM)
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I didn’t like it at first, but it’s grown on me. I especially like the 3-word action mnemonics like “sense-act-respond” since they suggest regimes of algorithm design space. Classifier, exact solver, approximation, randomized. I bet the computational complexity tags will work.