It is a pleasant thing to cross paths in the woods with someone you knew from the city.
This is a matter of interest to me. In my way, apart but the same from yours, I identify the locus of the value of AI in the same way I do for firearms. One's opinion is vacuous if it's moral center is outsourced.
"The most important thing to say about AI is the exact same thing that you would say about guns. “This is what it is, what I do with it, how, where, and why I use mine.”
People led to beliefs and priorities about such powerful things abdicate their own powers of judgement and critical observation. It's a self-fulfilling death march of the soul.
Amused and surprised to see you mention 'outsourcing' judgements, because that's more or less what I was just saying, in reply to another comment. But I hadn't thought of it quite as you put it and it's compelling to describe such views as vacuous. Such opinions really do lack a moral centre. Also appreciate the guns analogy, which instantly chimes for me.
"Reputations are being carved out by overlooking and discounting even the possibility, let alone desirability, of exercising personal agency and responsibility."
The older I get, the more value I place on agency. It's one of the cores of what passes for moral philosophy for me: all people are created morally equal; it's immoral to abandon your own judgement; it's immoral to evade responsibility for your judgements and their consequences.
There *are* influences out there which induce us to make poor choices, and it is fair to be critical of them, and suggest that maybe we should avoid them. But they can't force us to do anything. The last step is always ours, and within our control.
I wonder if this is an age thing. Perhaps that the various brickbats that even an ordinary life throws our way lead many of us to realise that it’s in our gift to respond in some way other than feeling hurt and victimy. Must say I like your framing of outsourcing (presumably) one’s judgements being a moral failing. You'll be aware that I look down on social cost calculus as a reason for holding one view in preference to another and your thought reinforces part of why I feel that way. It's a moral failing to think with the crowd, unless you would think whatever it is without social influence. Anyway, thanks for moving the case I was trying to make on a bit further. Typical of your inputs, which are always welcome.
It is a pleasant thing to cross paths in the woods with someone you knew from the city.
This is a matter of interest to me. In my way, apart but the same from yours, I identify the locus of the value of AI in the same way I do for firearms. One's opinion is vacuous if it's moral center is outsourced.
"The most important thing to say about AI is the exact same thing that you would say about guns. “This is what it is, what I do with it, how, where, and why I use mine.”
People led to beliefs and priorities about such powerful things abdicate their own powers of judgement and critical observation. It's a self-fulfilling death march of the soul.
Amused and surprised to see you mention 'outsourcing' judgements, because that's more or less what I was just saying, in reply to another comment. But I hadn't thought of it quite as you put it and it's compelling to describe such views as vacuous. Such opinions really do lack a moral centre. Also appreciate the guns analogy, which instantly chimes for me.
"Reputations are being carved out by overlooking and discounting even the possibility, let alone desirability, of exercising personal agency and responsibility."
The older I get, the more value I place on agency. It's one of the cores of what passes for moral philosophy for me: all people are created morally equal; it's immoral to abandon your own judgement; it's immoral to evade responsibility for your judgements and their consequences.
There *are* influences out there which induce us to make poor choices, and it is fair to be critical of them, and suggest that maybe we should avoid them. But they can't force us to do anything. The last step is always ours, and within our control.
I wonder if this is an age thing. Perhaps that the various brickbats that even an ordinary life throws our way lead many of us to realise that it’s in our gift to respond in some way other than feeling hurt and victimy. Must say I like your framing of outsourcing (presumably) one’s judgements being a moral failing. You'll be aware that I look down on social cost calculus as a reason for holding one view in preference to another and your thought reinforces part of why I feel that way. It's a moral failing to think with the crowd, unless you would think whatever it is without social influence. Anyway, thanks for moving the case I was trying to make on a bit further. Typical of your inputs, which are always welcome.