Not The Onion

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if you can send them after specific targets I'd call that a premium feature.

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Someone offers you a button. If you push it, you get a driverless taxi ride for $20 but there's a small chance that a random person in your city dies. Do you push the button?

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Another button gets you a taxi ride with driver for $25, but there's a slightly higher chance that a random person in your city dies. Which button do you prefer?

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's fair. I'm generally in favor of automating cars given how horrifically bad humans are at operating them, I just don't trust the free market to decide how low the odds need to be before the button can be put on the market.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

The unfortunate alternative is public opinion and human emotions, manipulated by large corpos, so it's not a great choice.

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Pressing neither of the buttons also means a random person dies in the city fairly soon.