Posts Tagged ‘ethics’

CMC Silicon Valley Trip: Wednesday. "Drive the boat, don't let the boat drive you."

Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin’s only customer is the government, and they don’t have much competition, so I knew their facilities and company paraphernalia were going to be outdated and corny, but I didn’t expect them to be so outdated and corny. Walking into Lockheed Martin was like walking into a time machine. I doubt anyone [...]

Avoiding far bias

Robin Hanson has a good post on our tendency to moralize and offer suggestions about people that are far away from us: At my Georgetown lecture last night on our robot future, the smart econ students focused their questions almost entirely on ethics. They seemed to assume they understood enough about the social situation, and [...]