On 6/5/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't it indisputable that agency is necessarily on behalf of some
> perceived entity (a self) and that assessment of the "morality" of any
> decision is always only relative to a subjective model of "rightness"?
I'm not sure that I should dive into this but I'm not the brightest
sometimes . . . . :-)
If someone else were to program a decision-making (but not conscious or
self-conscious) machine to always recommend for what you personally (Jef)
would find a moral act and always recommend against what you personally
would find an immoral act, would that machine be acting morally?
<hopefully, we're not just debating the term agency>
I do think its a misuse of "agency" to ascribe moral agency to what is
effectively only a tool. Even a human, operating under duress, i.e.
as a tool for another, should be considered as having diminished or no
moral agency, in my opinion.
Oh well. Thanks Mark for your response.
- Jef
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