scholarly journals Machine morality, moral progress, and the looming environmental disaster

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Kenward ◽  
Thomas Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Moral Progress ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Machine Morality

Application of remote sensing in the red sludge environmental disaster in Hungary

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-231
Author(s):  
T. Bíró ◽  
T. Tomor ◽  
C. Lénárt ◽  
P. Burai ◽  
J. Berke
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Red Sludge

The Evolution of Moral Progress. A Biocultural Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
Allan Buchanan ◽  
Russel Powell
Keyword(s):  
Moral Progress

Trust, Trade, and Moral Progress

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Anomaly
Keyword(s):  
Moral Progress

Actor specific language network analysis on environmental disaster issues - Focusing on humidifier disinfectant disaster -

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-115
Author(s):  
Yun-Jung Choi ◽  
Ji-Hyeon Son ◽  
Young-Ji Song ◽  
Hye- Min Kwon ◽  
Ro-Sa Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Language Network

Naturalizing Moral Regression

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Group Threat ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
Harsh Conditions ◽  
Development And Evolution

This chapter proposes a theory of moral regression, arguing that inclusivist gains can be eroded not only if certain harsh biological and social conditions indicative of out-group threat actually reappear but also if significant numbers of people come to believe that such harsh conditions exist even when they do not. It argues that normal cognitive biases in conjunction with defective social-epistemic practices can cause people wrongly to believe that such harsh conditions exist, thus triggering the development and evolution of exclusivist moralities and the dismantling of inclusivist ones. Armed with detailed knowledge of the biological and social environments in which progressive moralities emerge and are sustained, as well as the conditions under which they are likely to be dismantled, human beings can take significant steps toward transforming the classic liberal faith in moral progress into a practical, empirically grounded hope.

A Typology of Moral Progress

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Premarital Sex ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Point

This chapter identifies a number of developments that are candidates for moral progress: abolition of the Atlantic chattel slavery, improvements in civil rights for minorities, equal rights for women, better treatment of (some) non-human animals, and abolition of the cruellest punishments in most parts of the world. This bottom-up approach is then used to construct a typology of moral progress, including improvements in moral reasoning, recognition of the moral standing or equal basic moral status of beings formerly thought to lack them, improvements in understandings of the domain of justice, the recognition that some behaviors formerly thought to be morally impermissible (such as premarital sex, masturbation, lending money at interest, and refusal to die “for king and country”) can be morally permissible, and improvements in understandings of morality itself. Finally, a distinction is made between improvements from a moral point of view and moral progress in the fullest sense.

The Age of Em

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Fast Computer ◽  
The World ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
Detailed Picture

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks. Some say we can't know the future, especially following such a disruptive new technology, but Professor Robin Hanson sets out to prove them wrong. Applying decades of expertise in physics, computer science, and economics, he uses standard theories to paint a detailed picture of a world dominated by ems. While human lives don't change greatly in the em era, em lives are as different from ours as our lives are from those of our farmer and forager ancestors. Ems make us question common assumptions of moral progress, because they reject many of the values we hold dear. Read about em mind speeds, body sizes, job training and career paths, energy use and cooling infrastructure, virtual reality, aging and retirement, death and immortality, security, wealth inequality, religion, teleportation, identity, cities, politics, law, war, status, friendship and love. This book shows you just how strange your descendants may be, though ems are no stranger than we would appear to our ancestors. To most ems, it seems good to be an em.

Moral Progress: A Process Critique of MacIntyre (review)

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Moral Progress
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