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Self-driving Cars and the Apocalypse | Ryan Jenkins (with Stephen Kershnar)

Brain in a Vat

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The Politics of Autonomous Vehicles

In Australia, it's illegal to modify your cars in these ways. The value of an individual will be a combination of his intrinsic and extrinsic value. And we favor the fertile over the infertile where people with on average greater fertility over less fertility. So I think if you really want to say let the state of the manufacturer set the parameters, you're going to get incredibly distasteful results. If there's some sort of inevitable crash, that car is going to take all the people around it and prioritize whom it harms on the basis of census data.

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