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Article 5623 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: AI failures
Message-ID: <1992May13.173251.17396@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
Date: 13 May 92 17:32:51 GMT
References: <MORAVEC.92May10004528@turing.think.com> <1992May12.081742.22060@norton.com> <upsnbINNk2c@early-bird.think.com>
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In article <upsnbINNk2c@early-bird.think.com> 
moravec@Think.COM (Hans Moravec) writes:
>
>|> If anything, the fact that morality is a matter of life or 
>|> death means that we ought to use our best tools to address the questions at 
>|> hand (ie. reason rather than unidentified emotions or traditions).
>
>Sure.  But reasonable people make mistakes, and the bottom line is still
>trying things out and seeing how they work.  

  The problem with all this theorizing about morality is that it's
inescapably circular.  This is immediately obvious once you
realize that the fundamental question is:  "What is the right
system of morality?"

	-- Bill


